Challenge Jan 27-29, 2014 "Before and After" (Page 13): GREAT!

lnightng7 Loc: Norfolk, NE

GREAT!

plessner wrote:

YAHOO the weatherman did put one of my frost pics on the TV tonight!

Irenejb Loc: Minnesota/Florida

PAToGraphy wrote:

p11. Thank you, Irene, so much. Have been having my share of "self doubt" lately.

You're welcome Pat. Seems I come back from a shoot and say to myself.....why didn't I move more to the left....right....backed up.....moved forward.....shoot low...high......learned all this from these fantastic challenges and reading and learning from comments and looking. You produce some fantastic shots and I would say you have a very artistic eye....love seeing what you come up with...you have inspired me to try many different things and look differently at my surroundings.

Irenejb Loc: Minnesota/Florida

My pink Amaryllis opened up and have posted an original and post work.........love the pink and green of this Amaryllis.

Manual-Macro setting...f5.6 1/60s ISO400 focal lenth 15mm

Working on definition of the stamens, anthers and Pistil.....Cropped, light&clarity, sharp-Saturation Brush on the Anthers, and Lighten Brush on the Stamens and Pistil....some background paint fill and burn brush used also

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Irenejb wrote:

You're welcome Pat. Seems I come back from a shoot and say to myself.....why didn't I move more to the left....right....backed up.....moved forward.....shoot low...high......learned all this from these fantastic challenges and reading and learning from comments and looking. You produce some fantastic shots and I would say you have a very artistic eye....love seeing what you come up with...you have inspired me to try many different things and look differently at my surroundings.

Thank you, Irene. Thank you.

PAToGraphy Loc: Portland ME area

Irenejb wrote:

My pink Amaryllis opened up and have posted an original and post work.........

I like the crop. In fact, wouldn't it make a nice "series" to frame them side by side.

Irenejb Loc: Minnesota/Florida

PAToGraphy wrote:

Thank you, Irene. Thank you.

:-)

photogrl57 Loc: Tennessee

Wahawk wrote:

I sure miss the style of Challenge that you started!!
But I am sure glad to see you back a little more often.

Thank you darlin :)

lnightng7 Loc: Norfolk, NE

Challenge-Before & After......

PP'd Saturated color, increased contrast

Original f8, 1/100, ISO 80

Irenejb Loc: Minnesota/Florida

PAToGraphy wrote:

I like the crop. In fact, wouldn't it make a nice "series" to frame them side by side.

Thanks Pat.....yes...nice thought but may still have to crop the original slightly.

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

Just read about a lower primate who has polluted UHH and I am thinking that if there are one or two hijacking and selling, the nthere must be more for sure.

I'm not worried about my photos because they'll never sell however it bothers me that we have been sold down the river for a few dollars and naively have bee ntaken in...

Think also that it is just maybe the time to search out other options.

dansmith Loc: Southwest Alberta Canada

Irenejb wrote:

My pink Amaryllis opened up and have posted an original and post work.........love the pink and green of this Amaryllis.

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

very nice

dansmith Loc: Southwest Alberta Canada

Roadrunner wrote:

Just read about a lower primate who has polluted UHH and I am thinking that if there are one or two hijacking and selling, the nthere must be more for sure.

I'm not worried about my photos because they'll never sell however it bothers me that we have been sold down the river for a few dollars and naively have bee ntaken in...

Think also that it is just maybe the time to search out other options.

Unfortunately anything that winds up on the internet is open to piracy Rr. It just hurts more when the offender was part of this community.

Posting lo-res images deters this problem somewhat. Just hate using ugly watermarks.

and all of us are capable of coming up with images good enough to steal.

photogrl57 Loc: Tennessee

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

f/13, 1/800, ISO 400

f/7.1, 1/250, ISO 400

f/5.6, 1/250, ISO 100

photogrl57 Loc: Tennessee

Bushido wrote:

It seems as though many of us are using different post processing software it would be hard for me to cover them all. However one of the best places to look for videos on your particular software is YouTube. Happy Shooting Lass.

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

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

Straight out of camera

Took to lightroom exposure -.24, contrast +.19, shadows +55, whites +52, blacks +26, clarity +50 Vignetting -21 and cropped

In CS3 I dodged the leaves around the bottom, burnt in a few places then with topaz I chose star effects and chose city lights 1 to bring the sun effect thru the tree a little more