MinnieV and I will be co-hosting this thread. She is responsible for first introducing me to the joys of textures

Please share one of your favorite "heavily processed" landscapes and talk a bit about your vision and how you created the result.

Many thanks for your participation!

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Here's one to start. I changed the reality (photo #2) from warm sunrise to explore more mysterious and moody. Is there a sense that this is nighttime and moonlit?

In my raw editor I changed white balance to custom and this faded blue. In Nik Color Efex I used several filters in varying modes and strengths: contrast color, low key, duplex. I created bottom half of sun (which is obscured by a ridge line in original), added a great blue heron from another photo (they are very common in the pastures catching rodents the cattle stir up). Final touches included some softening and cloning of fog and lessening of background details.

I’ve been a monitor since last April. Had major setback in macula degeneration (long history with the disease.) OD did not expect much improvement. Have dry type in right eye, and wet type in left eye. Also, much retinal scaring in left eye. Sold all my “good” stuff, a Canon 5D/IV and Oly E-M1 Mk/II and all glass and associated equip. Over summer months, noticed slight improvement in visual acuity in left eye, and with regular injections to mitigate swelling and fluid buildup, vision slowly returned, though not to the level before setback. PP on my Mac is still a challenge, but I cope. Decided to pick up where I left off in April. In early December, my local B&M, Southeastern Camera in Raleigh, had just taken in a lightly used 5D S/R and I snapped it up at a pretty good price. Starting to build up glass inv. Limited in photo ops since I can’t drive and I don’t like to impose. So I shoot mostly local social ops, car events, etc. I don’t expect to post much in the coming months, but I will chime in with comments as I view all the good stuff posted by all the fine folk on this forum.

Dean S

For those who aren't familiar, For Your Consideration section has a weekly "My Image/Your View" challenge. The winner posts the following week's entry. People submit their edits - which can be highly imaginative and not restricted in any way - to the thread over several days, and then voting occurs.

This week's voting started yesterday. See the sticky topic at top of this page:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-119-1.html

The schedule:
- voting closes on Sunday night
- Sunday or Monday the winner posts a pic for editing
- submissions close on Thursday night, at which time voting begins

You will always find the current thread at top, or near top, of the FYC home page.

I posted this over at Post Processing and got no takers, so I'll try again here.

I'm using the latest Photoshop CC update, and I am noticing that some processed ".psd" files don't show exposure data in the Bridge metadata panel.

Some ".psd" files are showing up as thumbnails in Bridge, and some are showing up with just a ".psd" symbol; it's these later files that don't show exposure data in the metadata panel.

When these are converted to ".jpg" files, they still don't show the exposure data. The ".NEF" files I started with do show the data.

Anyone know any trick I'm missing to keep that metadata showing?

BTW, I'm working in Mojave 10.14.2, if that makes any difference.

Today when I opened Lightroom it came up then quit and a message popped up "you have been logged out of creative cloud.. " and some other text I don't remember exactly. So I opened the creative cloud program (App) and signed in then the window went completely white. Odd. But now LR was working ok so I just said WTF and quit the CC program (App).

Later I reopened the Creative Cloud program (App) and there was a message dated 6 days ago something like "Creative cloud payment failed Please update your information in order not to lose access to the creative cloud". (Paraphrased)

Huh? I paid for a year subscription last August. It is not August 2019 yet correct? See attached image. But the subscription seems to be working ok now.

So here is my question:
Am the only one inflicted with this confusion or is this an Adobe problem affecting multiple users?

An easy way to buy the latest standalone ("perpetual license") version of the traditional Lightroom is from B&H. It costs $149 for either a disk to be shipped to you or a direct download. The disk will likely install as 6.0 and suggest an immediate internet update to 6.14. The direct download will probably be 6.14. "Technical Support" continues on an Adobe sponsored forum of skilled users. Direct support from Adobe staff has ceased.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=Lightroom%206&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=

Paul Sager suggests above that upgrading from 5.7 to 6.14 may be a waste of time and money. I'll be more direct! It is a waste. The traditional Lightroom, now called "Classic" is at version 8.1. Instead of a near nothing minor upgrade, consider shopping for a complete replacement. UHH is full of topics about suitable products.

In the spirit of this being a forum and me standing on my soapbox (!) the discussion about Lightroom as a subscription only gets confusing. It is no longer a standalone product. It is now one part of a interdependent multipart system. Adobe saw that more photograpers than not, needed to go beyond the confines of Lightroom. They bundled Photoshop with the old Lightroom and added a new Lightroom. They threw in Bridge and Portfolio. It is no longer what Lightroom will do. Instead it is about what does the photographer want to do and what collection of tools does he need to do it.

Managing it as anything else other than a rented package is not feasible. Yes, rentals are offensive to some and they are moving on to something they like better for what they do. Adobe's cloud subscription (rental) base continues to expand because, in part, photographers have a need for what's contained in the components.

By example, yesterday I took a desert walk and came back with a dozen pictures I wanted to share. I edited them in Lightroom Classic, touched a couple of the up in Photoshop, synced them to Lightroom (cloud) and "published" a shareable "web gallery". I did this with only a cell phone internet connection from an RV. I wanted friends and family to see ONLY this dozen, so emailed this link: https://adobe.ly/2ETIedP

I needed all three parts of the package to do what I did. If one does not want tools that go beyond the traditional Lightroom, he/she should look for a replacement.

I got an unexpected email today from Tamron USA. It seems I have achieved a level of "Top Ten" Tamron salesmen in the entire USA. Its hard to believe my little one man store has moved so many Tamron lenses.
Along with some gifts and accolades, the main award is an all expense paid 4 day trip to Miami this coming February. 4 days in Miami in February will be a very welcome break from these cold Montana winter days.
Our hotel will be in Miamis South Beach area and 1/2 block from the beach. One evening will be a walking photo tour of Little Havana after dinner there, followed by a 4am trip to shoot a sunrise over the Atlantic. Looking forward to it all.
Hard work does pay off sometimes! 😁😁