Mushrooms
Oct 25, 2013 13:35:55 #
Playing with new slide scanner, here are a few from film days many years ago. Remarks please good or bad. Thanks for looking.
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Oct 25, 2013 16:17:39 #
Super photos. In #2, the acorn in the back looks HUGE. Neat perspective!
Oct 25, 2013 16:54:28 #
LLucas wrote:
Super photos. In #2, the acorn in the back looks HUGE. Neat perspective!
Thank you for your comments and looking!
Oct 26, 2013 10:37:44 #
You requested comments.
Subjects and composition great.
With the exception of #3, I think they need more contrast, clarity, and vibrance adjustments.
Looks like you did a good job removing dust.
I am curious as to which scanner you used, and have you tried scanning any negatives?
What software are you using?
I like all the photos.
Subjects and composition great.
With the exception of #3, I think they need more contrast, clarity, and vibrance adjustments.
Looks like you did a good job removing dust.
I am curious as to which scanner you used, and have you tried scanning any negatives?
What software are you using?
I like all the photos.
Oct 26, 2013 15:52:46 #
nikonlad wrote:
You requested comments.
Subjects and composition great.
With the exception of #3, I think they need more contrast, clarity, and vibrance adjustments.
Looks like you did a good job removing dust.
I am curious as to which scanner you used, and have you tried scanning any negatives?
What software are you using?
I like all the photos.
Subjects and composition great.
With the exception of #3, I think they need more contrast, clarity, and vibrance adjustments.
Looks like you did a good job removing dust.
I am curious as to which scanner you used, and have you tried scanning any negatives?
What software are you using?
I like all the photos.
I agree with these comments. I like all the photos, too. If #1 were mine, I'd probably make an illustration out of it which might make it more compelling. The other ones are interesting enough as they stand without heavy PP, just could use some contrast, clarity, etc. adjustments.
Oct 26, 2013 20:37:28 #
nikonlad wrote:
You requested comments.
Subjects and composition great.
With the exception of #3, I think they need more contrast, clarity, and vibrance adjustments.
Looks like you did a good job removing dust.
I am curious as to which scanner you used, and have you tried scanning any negatives?
What software are you using?
I like all the photos.
Subjects and composition great.
With the exception of #3, I think they need more contrast, clarity, and vibrance adjustments.
Looks like you did a good job removing dust.
I am curious as to which scanner you used, and have you tried scanning any negatives?
What software are you using?
I like all the photos.
Thank you very much for your comments and taking the time to comment. I purchased the Epson V500 refurbished from their site. I have not scanned any negatives as I have many more slides to do. The scanner will I fact do negs.. PP for me is something that I have not done much of. Just don't know where to start. The Scanner came with a copy of Elements 9, so I guess I will have to sit down one day and see what I can do. The only other software as far as the scanner is concerned is the driver disc that came with it.
Oct 26, 2013 20:43:22 #
Heirloom Tomato wrote:
I agree with these comments. I like all the photos, too. If #1 were mine, I'd probably make an illustration out of it which might make it more compelling. The other ones are interesting enough as they stand without heavy PP, just could use some contrast, clarity, etc. adjustments.
Thanks for your comments Heirloom Tomato. I'm not quite sure what you mean by making an illustration from #1. Feel free to do tinker with #1 if you wish. I'm going to have to learn the art of PP AS I find it a little intimating. Thanks again.
Oct 26, 2013 21:13:08 #
DWHJR wrote:
Thanks for your comments Heirloom Tomato. I'm not quite sure what you mean by making an illustration from #1. Feel free to do tinker with #1 if you wish. I'm going to have to learn the art of PP AS I find it a little intimating. Thanks again.
I've got a long way to do with PP skills myself, but sometimes I turn woodland scenes into illustrations using mostly the Poster Edges filter in PSE11. I tried it with your first photo, here it is though I am not sure this is going to upload. The file name is reading .htm while I tried saving it as .jpg...
Oct 26, 2013 21:14:12 #
Heirloom Tomato wrote:
I've got a long way to do with PP skills myself, but sometimes I turn woodland scenes into illustrations using mostly the Poster Edges filter in PSE11. I tried it with your first photo, here it is though I am not sure this is going to upload. The file name is reading .htm while I tried saving it as .jpg...
It didn't work. Hmmmm. Not sure what to do. If you post just that photo as a .jpg I could work with it.
Oct 26, 2013 21:17:15 #
Heirloom Tomato wrote:
It didn't work. Hmmmm. Not sure what to do. If you post just that photo as a .jpg I could work with it.
I thought coming out of scanner that it would be JPEG. I will have to see what I can do. Thanks again.
Oct 26, 2013 22:59:55 #
All very good shots, Doug! I'm going to have to hunt for some mushrooms to shoot! Did you have to lie on your belly to get these? I'd never get up!!
Oct 27, 2013 12:27:23 #
sailorsmom wrote:
All very good shots, Doug! I'm going to have to hunt for some mushrooms to shoot! Did you have to lie on your belly to get these? I'd never get up!!
Hi Sailorsmon. Yes most of these were done on my belly, but that was some 25-30 years ago. I still try getting down low for some shots, but have to pick and choose my location very carefully as I need something to help me get back up. My knees are the issue, I think a transplant from the hips down would be wonderful. Wild flowers and mushrooms have always been a favorite subject of mine. Thanks for looking and taking the time to comment!
Oct 27, 2013 12:36:32 #
Heirloom Tomato wrote:
It didn't work. Hmmmm. Not sure what to do. If you post just that photo as a .jpg I could work with it.
Thanks for reposting these, I think upload of the "illustration" version of #1 will work this time. These are not everyone's cup of tea, but I make them. Here goes:
Oct 27, 2013 17:05:16 #
I feel for you, Doug! I'm in the same boat! I think I'll be going in for a left knee replacement soon, but I'm trying to wait 'til after Christmas since we plan to drive down to southern Virginia to be with our sailor and his family then! Can't give that up! :)
Oct 27, 2013 22:20:17 #
Brian in Whitby
Loc: Whitby, Ontario, Canada
The photos are great! The year I got my first SLR camera was a very rainy one and mushrooms became my favourite subject that summer.
# 6 Is a Morel, reputed to be delicious.
# 7 is NOT a mushroom. It is a saprophytic plant known as "Indian Pipes" It does not produce chlorophyll so it cannot use light to make glucose. Instead, it absorbs materials from the decaying plant matter in the forest floor.
Its existence is more typical of a fungus but it reproduces by producing seeds in its flower. The flower it the black and white part at the top of the stem.
# 6 Is a Morel, reputed to be delicious.
# 7 is NOT a mushroom. It is a saprophytic plant known as "Indian Pipes" It does not produce chlorophyll so it cannot use light to make glucose. Instead, it absorbs materials from the decaying plant matter in the forest floor.
Its existence is more typical of a fungus but it reproduces by producing seeds in its flower. The flower it the black and white part at the top of the stem.
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