Challenge Jan 27-29, 2014 "Before and After" (Page 14): Well, thats the ideal, PhotoGrl....that the originals are almost perfect and don't need much PP....good shooting! And really...

laskalass Loc: Land of the Midnight Sun

Well, thats the ideal, PhotoGrl....that the originals are almost perfect and don't need much PP....good shooting! And really good to see you here among us!

photogrl57 wrote:

There wasn't too much interesting on my walk today. The kid is gone with my truck so I was extremely limited.
So these are truly uninteresting photos lol.
I had the camera set to P (program mode) and manual focus.
When I opened them in photoshop, other than the exposure which I corrected with a slight curves adjustment I didn't do anything to them

haha helps to upload them

laskalass Loc: Land of the Midnight Sun

I didnt need a tutorial for myself...I shouldn't have made a comment..lol...I don't know what I was thinking ...I just thought there was usually a tutorial along with photoGrls challenges...I was there since this started...I wasn't thinking that the tutorials wouldn't be "generic"...and everyone has different software programs...DUH>...ok I sometimes have "blonde logic"...

photogrl57 wrote:

Agreed. Just google (your pp program) tutorials. As some of you know that have been here since the beginning, I used to have all of them and could help, but unfortunately I had them installed on an external drive that had decided not to let me access them. LOL it keeps telling me to format the disc and if I do I will lose everything on it... hate when that happens

Sher Loc: Colorful Colorado

A second set from me

Camera settings
ISO 200, 70mm, f8.0, 1/640

straight from camera

worked with exposure, contrast, clarity, shadows, whites, blacks and luminance.. I dodged the fliage and the trees and burned the fence

Took it to topaz and worked with the sliders until it became what I wanted it to be in BW

Sher Loc: Colorful Colorado

plessner wrote:

here it is cropped tighter Sher--I think I like this better
I had also shot this in HDR but liked it better without

So pretty.......... I love the tighter crop

photogrl57 Loc: Tennessee

laskalass wrote:

...ok I sometimes have "blonde logic"...

lmao @ blonde moments I have a lot of those

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Sher wrote:

Saw the sun shining thru this tree and wanted to try to capture it... Thanks to this challenge, I took something that was basically bland and I might have deleated to something a little more interesting......

Camera settings ISO 200, 70mm, f/8.0, 1/500

Like it, Sher - was looking at the different levels or kinds of light in the image from all the different directions.

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Sher wrote:

A second set from me

Camera settings
ISO 200, 70mm, f8.0, 1/640

Really like the B/W. Maybe this is a silly question, but do you use masks and layers to do the selective dodge/burn? I need to figure out how to use masks. Have tutorial, but have to watch it again.....just wondered.

Clicker2014 Loc: Canada

Hmmmmm. Hey RR where did you read that. Would love to read it. (I just popped in and have not checked out the posts yet...so apologize if I just missed it.)

... never mind... found the post and tried the links... I see they have been blocked... pretty sad...

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Clicker2014 wrote:

Hmmmmm. Hey RR where did you read that. Would love to read it. (I just popped in and have not checked out the posts yet...so apologize if I just missed it.)

... never mind... found the post and tried the links... I see they have been blocked... pretty sad...

I just PM'd you.

sdunn Loc: Florida/Bahamas/Utah

Picture taken in Tallinn, Estonia of a graveyard during the day. Canon 40D back in the day when it was set to 'Automatic' - I've since learned to be the one in control of my camera.

Processed with Topaz Adjust - set to Dark-Ghostly which I felt showed the feeling of a graveyard.

Daytime

Dark & Ghostly
Dark & Ghostly...

Clicker2014 Loc: Canada

This was taken back in 2012, but wanted to show it. I used my Sigma 150mm macro. At the time I had no ring flash so was using a light to try and enough light and focus, etc. In the end it was aperture priority, .3sec. f2.8 ISO 200. I didn't like the picture but ended up cropping in and then changed "hue and saturation" and masked some of the color back in. I was pleased with the final result from a picture I almost deleted.

Sher Loc: Colorful Colorado

PAToGraphy wrote:

Really like the B/W. Maybe this is a silly question, but do you use masks and layers to do the selective dodge/burn? I need to figure out how to use masks. Have tutorial, but have to watch it again.....just wondered.

I don't use either of those for dodging and burning... I am not at that skill level yet...lol

Sher Loc: Colorful Colorado

sdunn wrote:

Picture taken in Tallinn, Estonia of a graveyard during the day. Canon 40D back in the day when it was set to 'Automatic' - I've since learned to be the one in control of my camera.

Processed with Topaz Adjust - set to Dark-Ghostly which I felt showed the feeling of a graveyard.

Don't you love topaz?

Sher Loc: Colorful Colorado

Clicker2014 wrote:

This was taken back in 2012, but wanted to show it. I used my Sigma 150mm macro. At the time I had no ring flash so was using a light to try and enough light and focus, etc. In the end it was aperture priority, .3sec. f2.8 ISO 200. I didn't like the picture but ended up cropping in and then changed "hue and saturation" and masked some of the color back in. I was pleased with the final result from a picture I almost deleted.

I absolutely love the crop.... Gorgeous

Irenejb Loc: Minnesota/Florida

dansmith wrote:

especially like the work you did bringing up the colour on the anthers Irene, and your crop choice

very nice

Thank you dansmith....appreciate the comment.