Yosemite, Reluctantly

wxwax

andy wrote:

good stuff, sid! nice to hear about how much everyone is learning.

i think your pic here could benefit from a wb blend in acr - the blue is saturated in the water and the tree branches.... give it a twirl!

Ooh, hadn't even thought about that. I'll try it, thanks.

Hey, do you remember Mark's tip for faking black and white points when you don't have 'em in your shot?

wxwax

DavidTO wrote:

Ah, but the difference is, you asked for Marc's help. I ended up with shots like your first one, happily, and ignorantly shooting away with branches stuck in the side. You, my friend, were a much better student...

That's kinda funny, each of us thinking the other has it down! Did your dappled light shots work out? Completely baffled me.

marlof

Humungus wrote:

Nothing wrong with them thar sid ! Im with ginger...(re :the ugly baby syndrome)I love my shots...nearly anything that is in focus.

Dude... I think you mean you love all your shots that are nearly in focus.

Sid: great shots. By accident I was looking at my old shots taken in Yosemite in 1998 with my Minolta X700. Did you know Yosemite does not have a blue sky? They're all white in my pictures. The things I didn't know then, I still don't know...

nightingale

wxwax wrote:

Thanks Fred! I posted my Nik and Mick shots in Michiel's thread, once he put my butt on display. Here are the twin terrors.

Hey, is that a picture of Gus on Mick's shirt?

Michiel de Brieder

just look at those legs

wxwax

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

just look at those legs

wxwax

Here's the tunnel view shot that I found so challenging. It wa shot just after dawn, and the reason it's B&W is that I found the light confoundedly difficult.

ginger_55

wxwax wrote:

Ooh, hadn't even thought about that. I'll try it, thanks.

Hey, do you remember Mark's tip for faking black and white points when you don't have 'em in your shot?

No, Sid, I forgot that completely. Could you please give a short summation? Please, would love that info.

g

4labs

I know what you mean I trashed a bunch of similiar shots.. I think you can bump up a the contrast some. The conversion IMO is a tad flat...

ginger_55

wxwax wrote:

Here's the tunnel view shot that I found so challenging. It wa shot just after dawn, and the reason it's B&W is that I found the light confoundedly difficult.

I love that shot, Sid. Could you please print, sign and send.

g (Really, one of my favorites. Next to the shot of the idiots shooting into white soup, I mean. This is the way I think of Yosemite: Ansel Adams et al, they thought of it in "these" colors, too.)

wxwax

ginger_55 wrote:

I love that shot, Sid. Could you please print, sign and send.

g (Really, one of my favorites. Next to the shot of the idiots shooting into white soup, I mean. This is the way I think of Yosemite: Ansel Adams et al, they thought of it in "these" colors, too.)

Thanks Ginger, you're a sweetheart.

wxwax

So then Marc picked a different position, slightly different arch of branches. But this time I understood it a little better. You know, fool me once, all that....

wxwax

I can't remember if we've seen Nikolai without his hat and sunglasses. This one's from Thursday night in SF, as the bellies began to swell with Italian food.

wxwax

My hotel was well situated for good views. It has a skyway that gave a nice look at the Transamerica building, Coit Tower, the Marina district (I think) and the Bay.

We had what you might call changeable weather on Thursday and Friday. Here's what I saw from the skyway.