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Apr 7, 2019 10:03:49   #
Linda From Maine wrote:
I've never been happy with my attempts. The pink color is from sunset light behind me, but there is a bit of dirty air and the deep blue shadow to deal with also.

Photo below is a jpg of the dng of the raw. Link to dng in dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9m57t0uxpx4my5d/p1300007.dng?dl=0

You are welcome to go "playful" though I'm more curious about how you deal with this one realistically Many thanks!
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My attempt. I wanted to embellish that foreground more, but I found any more would create an unrealistic scene.


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Mar 21, 2019 18:39:42   #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I like the shot and the capture of the female turns an ordinary shot into an exceptional one. I would crop it severely on the left and a little bit top an bottom. It will easily withstand an upsize of 100% and probably more, making the birds stand out more. JMO


I’m in complete agreement, and for my library, that crop is in place.
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Mar 21, 2019 18:36:21   #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Many topics posted to Post Processing Forum could easily fit into:
1. Main forum Discussion
2. Photo Gallery
3. For Your Consideration

The overwhelming majority of UHH users hang out in main discussion or photo gallery. The challenge for PP Forum, as with all the volunteer-managed sections, is they are invisible unless the UHH user specifically subscribes. How many of you reading this topic know there are about 30 specialty sections moderated by volunteers??

A bit of PP Forum's history can be found here. As noted in that doc, from June 1 through December 31, 2018, PP Forum averaged only 16 topics per month. Main discussion sees that many in a single day and photo gallery can have that many in a few hours

So, what is the value of PP Forum? I see it as the perfect place to post tutorials and editing challenges. We have a good number of tutorials, including expanded discussion within topics, since I took over as moderator - but we would definitely enjoy more challenges from pp experts willing to take the time to advise and offer feedback on participants' work (similar to what Shakey did).

For those just learning of this section - and for those veterans willing to come onboard with new topics - please be sure to read the updated guidelines here and my notice here, including expanded conversation on page 2.

Thanks for your time - - and don't forget to subscribe! 🤗
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I’ve gotten to the point where nearly all my UHH time is spent on the PP and FYC forums. Just find considerably more civility there. In support, I shall try to put together a topic regularly. I feel the forum is most worthwhile.
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Mar 20, 2019 13:05:20   #
Captured this sleepy Anhinga on a whim. It wasn't until I got home with the images that I noticed the female is sitting the nest next to him.


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Mar 14, 2019 08:49:22   #
UTMike wrote:
Excellent capture!


Thank you, Mike.
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Mar 12, 2019 19:00:09   #
BassmanBruce wrote:
Yes, that looks like the one that ussually hangs out pretty close to the big observation gazebo.
I can see at least five of her young there. Nice shot.
We also used to see about a ten or eleven footer on the river bank a bout halfway between the two covered observation decks on this boardwalk. I think it might be called the Tamarac trail.


Ah! Never have seen that one! I’ll have to keep my eyes open for him.
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Mar 12, 2019 13:52:46   #
BassmanBruce wrote:
We didn’t see her this year either. Maybe next year.
I always assumed it was a male gator cause he’s big, lazy and ugly. Plus I thought I saw cigar ashes.


As you know, the vegetation is dense at places, and that's where she usually decides to keep her young. This is one pic of her.


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Mar 12, 2019 10:45:15   #
BassmanBruce wrote:
Nice pic, Sawgrass is one of my favorite places to walk, shoot and hang out.
Is that big ol gator still sunnin on the river bank?


I didn't see her this trip!! Saw a couple younger gators. She usually has a new brood this time of year.
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Mar 12, 2019 09:50:38   #
Linda From Maine wrote:
What a cutie! I love how you've emphasized its unruly head feathers.


Thanks, Linda. It's those head feathers that make me think it's a juvenile. I don't believe adult birds have those. Here's a shot of one I captured a couple years ago. When in the water, they submerse themselves, except for their skinny neck/head.


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Mar 12, 2019 09:40:47   #
Just returned from a trip to St. Pete and spent an afternoon at Sawgrass Park there. This anhinga appears to be a juvenile, but I witnessed it picking twigs to reinforce the nest. Anyway, enjoy, if you can.


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Mar 1, 2019 10:07:50   #
Graham Smith wrote:
If you search "salen" on UHH you will find a few of my versions of these boats. The boat hulls and reflections are full of warm oranges and reds. While the composition is less than ideal I'm sure that you will overcome this.


Please feel free to download the photo to your computer and edit it any way you wish. Black and white conversions, composites, inverted images, adjustments. Just about anything you want to do. Then post your edit in this thread. Edits will be accepted until Thursday at 9pm, when we will go to the voting stage. Thank you for your continued support.
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Graham, it's nice to work with such a great image. I used Viveza, in the Nik toolset, to do what little work I did. Thanks for the opportunity.


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Feb 28, 2019 08:41:58   #
John Howard wrote:
I shoot Nikon and have been using Lightroom since version 4. Never used Bridge or Adobe Camera Raw. Want to progress with layers in Photoshop, but am having difficulty with the overall work flow. Watched a tutorial by Serge Ramelli, who exhibited working from Bridge to ACR, to PS, and provided very little info on file types and moving from one software package to the other. I could use some advice on work flow from those of you more advanced.

Start with my photo in LR, downloaded from card in DNG format.
I can click "Edit in Photoshop", and PS opens with the image.
I can click Open Camera Raw Filter (name which makes no sense to me) and do the basic edits there
When done with the basic stuff, I can save, but that is where I get over my pay grade.

File format, where (how do I get the edited version back in to LR?) color space, etc. When I do use bridge and click Edit in PS, it opens ACR automatically. Maybe I don't have my preferences set correctly?

My Adobe Photoshop book is pretty thin on what I am looking to learn.
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John. I found this little book very helpful for just this issue.

https://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Layers-Professional-Strength-Editing-ebook/dp/B015VKN8TS/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=robin+whalley&qid=1551361253&s=gateway&sr=8-3
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Feb 27, 2019 07:41:37   #
SAVH wrote:
Bruce,

I use RAW on my XQD card and jpg on the SD card. I use full size. When I look at the size of the file in Lightroom as soon as I import it, it appears to be full size. I obviously have some problem in the export function.

Thank you.

Scotty


I concur. Glad you found the issue.
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Feb 26, 2019 14:10:29   #
SAVH wrote:
I just returned from a family wedding in Puerto Rico where I took quite a few pictures that I promised to share. Somehow, my usual process is producing unbelievably small files - too small to be of real use. I'm pretty sure I am missing something but despite Googling and looking at Help sections, I can't figure it out. I take photos with my D-850 and input them to Lightroom (worked for years with my D-800). I use RAW, so the file size should be huge. I do light processing and export them to a photo album on my hard drive. I usually then select a number of the photos to share on Shutterfly or by E-mail. Somehow, the original huge file by the time it gets to Shutterfly is about 100 kb, yes, that is right, kilobits! When I was using my D-800, I would get huge files that were sometimes too large to share by some E-mails. I expect there is a step I'm missing or I have some wrong settings in Lightroom. I have Googled the best I could but the articles on resizing files in Lightroom only managed to increase the file size from say 100 to 120 kb. I hope someone can help. I'm not particularly facile with Lightroom yet, so I will need pretty detailed suggestions.

Thanking you in advance,

Scotty
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What size are your raw files? Raw only, or raw+jpg?
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Feb 24, 2019 22:28:21   #
NikonGal wrote:
You've received some very interesting ideas Bruce. The only additional thought I had was a free hand vignette drawn with the lasso tool, inverted, feathered maybe between 300-400 pixels, and painted in at about 12% or less due to blending with the light clouds on the right, (might even have to mask out some to keep it subtle in the cloud area). I'm not sure it would even make that much difference, but it's another idea.

The age of Photoshop has given us so many options we have to stand back and really analyze what story we want to tell with our image. You've indicated this is a special image to you, I hope you end up using whatever options keep it special. Bev
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Thank you so much, Bev. I will certainly explore this idea. Appreciate your taking a look.
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