Splash of Fall Color

Stormdancing

I was bored last Friday nite. It was dark (duh), raining and cold. I wanted to work on the challenge, so I got my flashlight and went on a leaf hunt. The trees are just now starting to change here in the land of corn, soybeans and brown, but my Gum tree is always one of the first. I arranged the leaves 100 different ways and took tons of shots. Suddenly, the sound of the rain on the tin roof of my farmhouse gave me an idea. I filled a pie pan with water, placed the leaves in the bottom and started shooting.

File informationFilename:Splash Of Color.jpg
Album name:storm / New Shots
File Size:541 KB
Dimensions:800 x 600 pixels
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Camera:SONY - DSC-F828
Date taken:2005:10:21 21:49:22
Aperture:f/ 8.0ISO:200
Exposure time:0.001 s (10/20000) (1/2000)
Focal length:14.60 (146/10)

I really don't know what to do with this in PS, because I'm so new at it. This is my first posting of a picture here, but I would like critique or advice on how to improve this shot.

I also think this is over the file size limit for the challenge. I'm not exactly sure how to get it down without losing quality. I've used Paint Shop Pro for a few years, but not for photo processing. If anyone has a good tutorial they can point me to on resizing, etc, please let me know. I have PS CS2 now.

I tend to have trouble with getting sharp focus on my 828, but I think this time it's because it's in water.

Dana

Wizard1929

I love stop action and yours is the greatest. Miz Wiz thought it was an ash tray until I pointed oud the droplets. Great shot. I use PSPX now, but in previous versionas well as this one, I alwaus used the Web tools for the JPEG compression. It shows a before and after compression image and size. I find that somewhere between 10% and 25% gives the correct size and an acceptable image.

Great shot, go for it!

Wiz

Stormdancing

Thanks Wiz
It was a lot of fun shooting these. Monday I got my new macro lens and I can't wait to try a few shots with it. Who knows what I'll get.
I've not tried PSPX, but I've changed over to PS from PSP9. I guess I never learned PSP properly, because then PS would be easier for me to learn.

LadyhawkVA

Really cool shot with nice vivid colors. Good job.

thegreenegg

Awesome. I think it is a great shot. Enter it for sure.
Ashley

skufuku

I like this alot, cool shot.

Stormdancing

Thanks everyone.
There's some tough competition already Great shots in there.

Khaos

Nice idea and cool shot.

cabbey

Stormdancing wrote:

I was bored last Friday nite. It was dark (duh), raining and cold. I wanted to work on the challenge, so I got my flashlight and went on a leaf hunt. The trees are just now starting to change here in the land of corn, soybeans and brown, but my Gum tree is always one of the first. I arranged the leaves 100 different ways and took tons of shots. Suddenly, the sound of the rain on the tin roof of my farmhouse gave me an idea. I filled a pie pan with water, placed the leaves in the bottom and started shooting.

Great way to adapt to the conditions mother nature dealt you! And one helluva good result.

Stormdancing

Thanks again everyone.
I recropped, resharpened and took the big leap.
It's entered.

Geez there are just so many good pics in there.

Khaos - I love the park bench shot. I want to be sitting right there!

cabbey - amazing what you can come up with then you're bored and have downed a few Miller Lites.

dbryson

Stunning
Some shots just make you stop mid scroll. This is one of those shots. Thank you for posting it, it has given me a thousand ideas.

Stormdancing

dbryson wrote:

Some shots just make you stop mid scroll. This is one of those shots. Thank you for posting it, it has given me a thousand ideas.

Thanks so much. It's so much fun learning what this 828 can do. It was just one of my crazy experiments that went well. Most don't.

I find myself getting in a rut on what to shoot and if I've inspired you to be creative and take some unusual shots - YAY, I did a good job.

Thanks so much,

Dana