Love this shot. Is this mountains or something like the grand canyon.
It is a magical photograph. I love the brown border running through it.
Where has it been taken? There are so much beautiful spots in the States.
Enjoying these! Olympus 2100UZ -2 mpx was my instrument of choice, during a 2 year obsession with aerial shots. Galleries here and Alaskan ones from a float plane here. Had lots of neat cloud ones but they aren't online. Alaska Airlines has the cleanest windows. All taken from commercial aircraft.
Northern Cal frozen lake
Santa Monica mountains above the fog
I always tried to get the plane's shadow on a parallel runway, here's the closest I got:
Plane's shadow in the clouds
Float plane, logged area north of Ketchikan
fun framing from the float plane
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From a cessna
This was taken Labor Day weekend when my DH and I went to spend our anniversary in Sedona, AZ. He told me that he wanted to go up in a Cessna for my present to him. WHY would anyone want to do that? I caved and went on the flight with him.
Taken with Sony F828, and not the best shot. I'm still learning and was having a hard time taking pictures while I was constantly wondering if I was going to need the cute little white bag in the seat pocket in front of me. :sick
Oh yeah, I'm still kind of a lurker, but I have learned that I still have alot to learn. You guys are good at what you do!
Your shot is like an advertisement for something I'm doing. It's a reading group for a new book: Photoshop LAB Color : The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace The first thing this book teaches is a recipe for shots just like this. (The book isn't called "Canyon" for nothing.)
Using this recipe, it too me under a minute to modify your original to this:
using these LAB curves:
I think that if you (anybody) are going to learn to do one thing with photoshop, it should be this. Tune in on the reading group, here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18203
Rutt i hope to get some 10-22 mm shots for you today re its sharpness.
In 30 words or less...in LAB how do you know whether to move A to the left & B to the right or vise versa or the same way as you did here.
ie is it just eye or is there a set formular ?
Remember ..keep it simple for me.
Gus
By steepening curves:
A will increase magenta and green.
B will increase yellow and blue.
You can go by eye, or the numbers. Positive A values are magenta, negative are green. Positive B are yellow and negative are blue. You have to look at the colors and think about what's possible in the shot. Is it possible for that part of the shot to have some blue in it? Or that much?
You can go by eye, or the numbers. Positive A values are magenta, negative are green. Positive B are yellow and negative are blue. You have to look at the colors and think about what's possible in the shot. Is it possible for that part of the shot to have some blue in it? Or that much?
Wow! Thanks
Is that something that I can do in Photoshop Elements? I have it, and to be honest, have NO idea what I am doing. Like I said, I am new to this. But if I can get those results out of Elements, cool! If not, it will be awhile before I can justify spending the money on PSCS. (I wish I had it, though)
Is that something that I can do in Photoshop Elements? I have it, and to be honest, have NO idea what I am doing. Like I said, I am new to this. But if I can get those results out of Elements, cool! If not, it will be awhile before I can justify spending the money on PSCS. (I wish I had it, though)
Unfortunately, LAB is only available in Photshop, the full version.
Rutt i hope to get some 10-22 mm shots for you today re its sharpness.
In 30 words or less...in LAB how do you know whether to move A to the left & B to the right or vise versa or the same way as you did here.
ie is it just eye or is there a set formular ?
Remember ..keep it simple for me.
Gus
David is on the money, but I have a "For Dummies" answer.
Start off doing the simple thing. Steepen both the A and B curves equally and symetrically, by moving each of the four endpoints inward somewhere between 10 and 20 percent.
(Exactly 30 words.)
Most of the time this will be great, but there are certain things that just have to be certain colors or the shot will look wrong (David's impossible colors). Fleshtones are the most important. Vegetation. Sky. Check the values for these with the color sampler. Fleshtones have to have both A and B positive with B at least as high as A. Vegetation has to have A negative and B positive, A more negative than B positive is better. Clear blue sky needs A slightly negative and B strongly negative. Clouds should be neutral or perhaps a little B negative (except sunsets.)
OK, Gus, now move this whole discussion to David's Chapter 3 discussion where it belongs, please. Make a link to my original post in your question. Thanks.
Some beauts with the Nikon D70
I clean forgot about these I did 13th July on the way from UK to Canada - I was very lucky with conditions. There are quite a few here, but it's what was honed from about a hundred, so they're pretty good, I think (without wanting to sound immodest). There's always the problem of smudge/scratches/steamed up windows in an aircraft, isn't there, which is why I took so many. Hope you like them.
I clean forgot about these I did 13th July on the way from UK to Canada - I was very lucky with conditions. There are quite a few here, but it's what was honed from about a hundred, so they're pretty good, I think (without wanting to sound immodest). There's always the problem of smudge/scratches/steamed up windows in an aircraft, isn't there, which is why I took so many. Hope you like them.
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It is a magical photograph. I love the brown border running through it.
Where has it been taken? There are so much beautiful spots in the States.
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Northern Cal frozen lake
Santa Monica mountains above the fog
I always tried to get the plane's shadow on a parallel runway, here's the closest I got:
Plane's shadow in the clouds
Float plane, logged area north of Ketchikan
fun framing from the float plane
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Im off on a flight on big tin bird over UnZud tomorrow so maybe i can get something there.
Here are a few from a recent trip to New Zealand
Ian
some where East of O'Hare
Adrian
my stuff is here.....
Japan Usa and Europe all here
Many more can be found at
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It was a little cloudy between the plane and ground, but I liked how the sky turned out...
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Here one of Hoover Dam coming into Vegas. 20D and 70-200 f/4 L. AZ on the left and NV on right.
This second one is of the Grand Canyon. Sony f707.
This was taken Labor Day weekend when my DH and I went to spend our anniversary in Sedona, AZ. He told me that he wanted to go up in a Cessna for my present to him. WHY would anyone want to do that?
Taken with Sony F828, and not the best shot. I'm still learning and was having a hard time taking pictures while I was constantly wondering if I was going to need the cute little white bag in the seat pocket in front of me. :sick
Oh yeah, I'm still kind of a lurker, but I have learned that I still have alot to learn. You guys are good at what you do!
Your shot is like an advertisement for something I'm doing. It's a reading group for a new book: Photoshop LAB Color : The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace The first thing this book teaches is a recipe for shots just like this. (The book isn't called "Canyon" for nothing.)
Using this recipe, it too me under a minute to modify your original to this:
using these LAB curves:
I think that if you (anybody) are going to learn to do one thing with photoshop, it should be this. Tune in on the reading group, here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18203
In 30 words or less...in LAB how do you know whether to move A to the left & B to the right or vise versa or the same way as you did here.
ie is it just eye or is there a set formular ?
Remember ..keep it simple for me.
Gus
By steepening curves:
A will increase magenta and green.
B will increase yellow and blue.
You can go by eye, or the numbers. Positive A values are magenta, negative are green. Positive B are yellow and negative are blue. You have to look at the colors and think about what's possible in the shot. Is it possible for that part of the shot to have some blue in it? Or that much?
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Is that something that I can do in Photoshop Elements? I have it, and to be honest, have NO idea what I am doing. Like I said, I am new to this. But if I can get those results out of Elements, cool! If not, it will be awhile before I can justify spending the money on PSCS. (I wish I had it, though)
Unfortunately, LAB is only available in Photshop, the full version.
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops
David is on the money, but I have a "For Dummies" answer.
Start off doing the simple thing. Steepen both the A and B curves equally and symetrically, by moving each of the four endpoints inward somewhere between 10 and 20 percent.
(Exactly 30 words.)
Most of the time this will be great, but there are certain things that just have to be certain colors or the shot will look wrong (David's impossible colors). Fleshtones are the most important. Vegetation. Sky. Check the values for these with the color sampler. Fleshtones have to have both A and B positive with B at least as high as A. Vegetation has to have A negative and B positive, A more negative than B positive is better. Clear blue sky needs A slightly negative and B strongly negative. Clouds should be neutral or perhaps a little B negative (except sunsets.)
OK, Gus, now move this whole discussion to David's Chapter 3 discussion where it belongs, please. Make a link to my original post in your question. Thanks.
I've got some pretty cool air travel shots:D More at http://mikelane.smugmug.com/gallery/837781
http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18695
Hope you like...
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I clean forgot about these I did 13th July on the way from UK to Canada - I was very lucky with conditions. There are quite a few here, but it's what was honed from about a hundred, so they're pretty good, I think (without wanting to sound immodest). There's always the problem of smudge/scratches/steamed up windows in an aircraft, isn't there, which is why I took so many. Hope you like them.
Great, great shots, Mike.
@all others, some really amazing shots here, wonderful thread !!!
(Now I'll have to go dig for my 'air shots' .. good thing I don't play golf.. ).
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IT WOULD HELP IF I INCLUDED A PICTURE OR TWO