Very nice. I was at the Fire Falls 5 years ago when there might have been 50 photo shooters on the river bank, and a few more under the falls. I had been there 5 years in a row before that when it didn't happen. Seeing it for the first time was very special, exciting etc. I took both video and stills. One of our group posted it on instagram and it was picked up by CNN and the rest is history. In the next few years the photo crowd has now overwhelmed the park. As many of you know, everything has to line up to make it happen; adequate snow on the watershed furnish the water, clear weather from the park to the ocean at sunset for the light and color of the air pollution, and of course the right time of year for the correct alignment of the nose of El cap, waterfalls, shadows. Thing is, its now so "classic" I'm not sure its special anymore. Good job on the capture and color. I hope to get back to the park again.
All the above. I felt the hands were contemplative, a moment taken for reflection. Just perfect.
There are some who think that you should do all the color manipulations before converting to b/w as the last PP to assist in creating the proper tone levels. I reviewed calculations tech for the first time in response to your question, thanks for the comment. I'm not familiar with what the difference in calculations to using the standard methods or linear blending mode as well to further enhance tones.
Hello Shooter41; I understand exactly what you are saying. I was in ob/gyn in a small community for 30 years. The stress was enormous, both from quality of care, lawyers, and gender issues becoming more predominate over the years. Photography/art has been a great venue for healing and celebrating not practicing medicine anymore. My former partners tell me I would have long ago slit my own neck if i tried to practice in today's corporate/government paper work/pre-authorizations environment. Yeah!!!
Hello Shooter41; I understand exactly what you are saying. I was in ob/gyn in a small community for 30 years. The stress was enormous, both from quality of care, lawyers, and gender issues becoming more predominate over the years. Photography/art has been a great venue for healing and celebrating not practicing medicine anymore. My former partners tell me I would have long ago slit my own neck if i tried to practice in today's corporate/government paper work/pre-authorizations environment. Yeah!!!
I appreciate the question, poignant to me at this time, because my interest has waned. I started at retirement moving from the snapper to serious student for my own statisfaction and desire to develop a new hobby and learn art. I have not a single genome for art, language or math on my entire DNA strand, so it has been a challenge and stretch. I love it, from capture to print. It has motivated me to travel the world (new), exposing me to cultures out of my comfort zone, see and capture images as I saw them. I sold my guns and took my trophies off the walls, (one) and replaced them with photos of landscapes and wild animals from Africa and South America/South Georgia Is. I filled my Safe with lenses and cameras for the capture (GAS). When I die, my kids will sell the equipment and trash the hard drives, keeping a print or two. I did it my way for myself it has given me purpose and an education. Thanks for asking.
Obviously great captures. Can I be so crass as to ask about your equipment and PP??? The color just jumps into my eyeballs and fills them up completely.
Just perfect in every aspect!!!
Of the many models, she is very elegant, straight out of the box, with a very attractive figure and demeanor, no matter the circumstance of her posing. No frills, just beauty.
The resizing advice above makes a lot of sense for yet another method to improve image quality for large crops when the capture parameters wind up being suboptimal. Kingfishers are a bitch to capture, no matter where in the world you try to get the capture. This is one of those quick shots and not to bad as it usually goes. Thanks for the post and thanks to the contributors for the nifty idea of "resizing."
Great work!!! and great planes. Our pharmacy professor was a WWII corsair pilot, in the Navy on a carrier. As all of you know, there were some problems initially with carrier landings, later resolved. Many of my classmates were active protesters of the Vietnam War and when they brought it to class he said, "when you see what the enemy did to our men, you'll understand I couldn't wait to drop bombs and napalm on them as fast as I could. Don't bring this to my classroom until you have fought in the war." Right or wrong, that was the end of that. I always think of him when I see these great planes and the "Greatest Generation."
I enjoyed the images and the information. I'm going to try it myself. Imitation, the greatest compliment!!!
Have any of you "lost a shoot" in LR?? I've been using it since the beginning, taking care to not move files around outside of lr, or move them at all, yet I've had to valuable files simply disappear, and a whole year's but thanks goodness not many images in that year. I've consulted our local PS/LR expert who couldn't figure it out either, so I'm sure he thought I simply screwed it up somehow without saying so.
No 3 for me as well. The initial observational comments are just that, observational. To conduct such a study, all the cameras need to be mounted on a tripod, taking the same image/lighting/lens(brand name prime)/blinded as to name of camera, and the photos studied by at least 20 similar observers in terms of photo experience, color skills, also blinded as to camera identification, with at least a strategy of criteria applied to each image evaluation. We call that a double blind study, the highest level of statistical evidence.