I wish I had shot this a few seconds earlier, didn't, was probably changing lenses. But I have been working on this sky a bit here and there last night and today. Today I tried curves, too, and I tried blurring and erasing 50% (hope that is what Lynn was talking about). Is there a magical formula to fixing a sky where the lens was not stopped down enough to make a star effect, or something else nice?? I thought I read about something recently, but I have books, mags and the stuff on the internet, so no idea what I may have read.
by ginger
I made an adjusment layer for levels and darkened the midtones, an adjustment layer to increase saturation, and an adjustment layer increasing contrast.
Ginger, I also just noticed you seem to have a dust spot on your sensor in the top left quadrant. If you dont know how to clean it consult your manual or take it to your local camera store. They may help you out with it. It gets tiresome cloning them out and fixing them, for me anyway.
I made an adjusment layer for levels and darkened the midtones, an adjustment layer to increase saturation, and an adjustment layer increasing contrast.
Improvment? I dont know, but more dramatic.
Right, I love this. Ginger, this is what I meant be different chromatic directions. I took it to blue and Greaper took it to yellow. This is a beautiful shot and if you had a hard time choosing, this shot will give you nightmares, because you can take it successfully in so many different directions. I might give it another go as well.
This is one of many examples of shots where LAB can really be magical. I'll try to make some examples.
Lynn, I like the stairs the most of your shots for this challenge so far. And by a lot. They have mystery and a very interesting quality of light. I think a little fancy sharpening might pay off. (I've found bricks fertle ground for the technique DM uses on the Morman Temple at the end of the chapter "Sharpening with a Stiletto". (I happen to know that Lynn has this book.) If you need help doing this, holler.
Lynn, I like the stairs the most of your shots for this challenge so far. And by a lot. They have mystery and a very interesting quality of light. I think a little fancy sharpening might pay off. (I've found bricks fertle ground for the technique DM uses on the Morman Temple at the end of the chapter "Sharpening with a Stiletto". (I happen to know that Lynn has this book.) If you need help doing this, holler.
Thanks Rutt.. I sharpened the heck out of it.. maybe it needs more...I'll get the book out... now where was it...
Let's see if I can put one up: my "luminous filly"
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Hey folks, another polite reminder to change the size of the photo, if you're repeating someone else's shot in your reply. Repeating the same large shot takes a lot of screen real estate and can make the thread hard to follow.
When you quote the photographer and repost their photo, all you have to do is change the -L.jpg in their smugmug link to -S.jpg.
Hey folks, another polite reminder to change the size of the photo, if you're repeating someone else's shot in your reply. Repeating the same large shot takes a lot of screen real estate and can make the thread hard to follow.
When you quote the photographer and repost their photo, all you have to do is change the -L.jpg in their smugmug link to -S.jpg.
That works great for reference, but not for new photoshop effects. Also it only works for smugmug links, but not for attachments (Lynn loves to use these, don't know why.)
I like it, don't you? But it didn't have the effect on the brick I was hoping for. Maybe a little lab a+b steepening as well. Not too much, this is a quiet picture and it shouldn't "pop". But the colors could be deeper.
I'll bet you don't make the originals available because you don't want anyone to steal the fun. But if they were available, I'd take a crack.
Also it only works for smugmug links, but not for attachments
Understood again. But to repeat an attached photo, one must copy and save it, then reattach it. "Reply" won't do it. So if someone's going to go to all of that trouble, then they might as well resize it at the same time.
It just makes for a cleaner, less cluttered thread, because there are a lot of large photos flying around!
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I didn't have this problem with the shot from last week, which was landscape as opposed to this one's portrait orientation. (And which during the voting, I mistakenly deleted from my Smugmug album, because there were duplicates, and I picked the "wrong" one to delete <sigh>)
Now I realize that the url can't just be copied between the IMGs, but have to use the "share" url instead.
I"m with Sid on this one Ginger, beautiful shot.. so is the one with the aircraft carrier...
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Thanks both of you, Lynn and Sid re the vertical shot you like. I was kind of into the raindrops. And this shot, too. But how to choose. It was not rainy tonight, it was some kind of very strange lightening and thunder situation. I looked at the sky, but I couldn't have ventured out anyway.
If I narrowed these down, I would post one on the challenge, take most of the others down and post some others.
Lynn, I really do like those steps. Every one of them, pictures and steps.
ginger
Oh, my favorite photo on any of these pages is not eligible for anything, lol.
It is Rutt's avatar.
Lynn...
I am just getting a chance to check out the posts and I really like this one a lot! I think you may be underestimating it considerably! Would be a beautiful ad> I love the warmth of the lighting coming through the window, the light that falls on the faucet, the reduced image through the tumbler. The colors of the flowersoffer just enough "zip" to pull the composition together into a beautiful balance. A simple subject, beautifully handled.
ginette
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Greaper I have dust on the right quadrant of something, can't remember what you said it, SENSOR, yes, I don't know what a sensor is and in the meantime will try to watch out for dust. Yesterday, when I was photographing raindrops, not only my current lens was getting wet, and I was doing the bad thing of wiping it off with my shirt. All my camera equipment was in what I thought was my closed camera bag, it wasn't closed, and I wiped off all my lenses, they were rained on, but not a whole lot. I am kind of hoping that somehow that is how the dust got where ever it is. But I have no idea what a sensor is. Why do you think it is the sensor.
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ginger
The sensor is the little chip behind the shutter on a digital camera tht records the light. I thought it was dust on the sensor because it looked like some spots I was getting for a bit, cleaning the sensor fixed it. It could be on the lense instead. Perhaps it was from the rain and you have fixed it already.
The easiest way to find out is to shoot shots of a simple background, a white wall or something lke it.shoot the same thing with each of your lenses. If the spot appears in them all its in the camera, if not its on the lense.
I"m with Sid on this one Ginger, beautiful shot.. so is the one with the aircraft carrier...
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Lynn, which one with the aircraft carrier? I am going to get some off of here, and I want to make sure I know what each feedback is. Actually maybe some people won't come on til the weekend. I feel guilty with as much space as I am using. Which aircraft carrier? thanks, g
I saw that the share has to be turned on in order to be able to grab the right url.
Just for grins, here's an image from tonight--I was trying to capture the pretty sunset in my mare's eye--managed, but didn't get the clouds, only the horizon some sky and sun. Enjoy.
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Improvment? I dont know, but more dramatic.
This is one of many examples of shots where LAB can really be magical. I'll try to make some examples.
I like the stairs the best.
Let's see if I can put one up: my "luminous filly"
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Oh, well never mind then. This is excellent!
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Lynn
When you quote the photographer and repost their photo, all you have to do is change the -L.jpg in their smugmug link to -S.jpg.
Like this.
Thanks.
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I'll bet you don't make the originals available because you don't want anyone to steal the fun. But if they were available, I'd take a crack.
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It just makes for a cleaner, less cluttered thread, because there are a lot of large photos flying around!
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Thanks both of you, Lynn and Sid re the vertical shot you like. I was kind of into the raindrops. And this shot, too. But how to choose. It was not rainy tonight, it was some kind of very strange lightening and thunder situation. I looked at the sky, but I couldn't have ventured out anyway.
If I narrowed these down, I would post one on the challenge, take most of the others down and post some others.
Lynn, I really do like those steps. Every one of them, pictures and steps.
ginger
Oh, my favorite photo on any of these pages is not eligible for anything, lol.
It is Rutt's avatar.
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Lynn...
I am just getting a chance to check out the posts and I really like this one a lot! I think you may be underestimating it considerably! Would be a beautiful ad> I love the warmth of the lighting coming through the window, the light that falls on the faucet, the reduced image through the tumbler. The colors of the flowersoffer just enough "zip" to pull the composition together into a beautiful balance. A simple subject, beautifully handled.
ginette
The easiest way to find out is to shoot shots of a simple background, a white wall or something lke it.shoot the same thing with each of your lenses. If the spot appears in them all its in the camera, if not its on the lense.
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Lynn, which one with the aircraft carrier? I am going to get some off of here, and I want to make sure I know what each feedback is. Actually maybe some people won't come on til the weekend. I feel guilty with as much space as I am using. Which aircraft carrier? thanks, g
Just for grins, here's an image from tonight--I was trying to capture the pretty sunset in my mare's eye--managed, but didn't get the clouds, only the horizon some sky and sun. Enjoy.
Galleries here Upcoming Ranch/Horse Workshop
Here's one from last night at sunset.
No real post processing other than some cropping.
Hutch
One more and I'm off to bed!
Have a Happy Birthday America!
Hutch