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Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

04/08/2007 10:44:22 PM · #3076

Heh. Thanks, Writeheart. I was baffled as to how Jack could think those were hippos. :)

Kelli, I think Noraneko nailed it. It's a perfectly nice shot of them, and the title is funny.

Your shot is a great example of where the image is the starting place, and the editing is the end game. If you want to get some specific examples, toss it out in a forum thread and invite others to process it. See what you get. Maybe you won't like any of them better, which is just fine. But maybe you'd get some ideas.

A lot of what I now do in terms of editing came about because of things like that, where people made suggestions on my shots in a thread.

Just always keep your own tastes in mind. No need to adhere to others' thoughts unless you agree yourself.

Now, Catherine, about your FS entry: amazing! Just a beautiful shot. :)

xianart

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

04/08/2007 10:46:18 PM · #3077

this my take on the croc shot.

kashi

Nikon D60

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G

04/08/2007 10:51:55 PM · #3078

WOW Christian.

I thought Kelli's shot was pretty decent - but you really made it POP.

jackal9

Canon EOS-50D

04/08/2007 10:58:50 PM · #3079

[quote=levyj413] Heh. Thanks, Writeheart. I was baffled as to how Jack could think those were hippos. :)

Yeah, I pulled up the wrong FS, lol. I have the moon pic uploaded now if you want to take a look...now returning to the regularly scheduled 'gators...

posthumous

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

04/08/2007 11:02:41 PM · #3080

A fun thing to do (for me, anyway) is to look at pictures you scored high and see who else commented on the picture. I was very please in the Free Study to see bucket loving many of the same shots I loved. Melethia liked a few, too. My correlation with raish, on the other hand, seemed like a completely random sampling... hahahaha

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

04/08/2007 11:03:16 PM · #3081

Originally posted by xianart:

this my take on the croc shot.

Yeah, now THAT would score higher. :) To say nothing of it looking better on your wall.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

04/09/2007 12:10:29 AM · #3082

Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by Melethia:
I'm in for chains. Entered the more "DPC friendly" of my choices. I'm with Don - I can see it scoring above 5, or possibly below.

You've been getting good comments from me lately. What more can you want? :P

Very good point! But if we're on the subject of "want", I'd like to score my average from time to time. :-)

jackal9

Canon EOS-50D

04/09/2007 12:38:15 AM · #3083

My Suckieness is still intact...LOL

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

04/09/2007 12:44:37 AM · #3084

Christian, oh hi goddess of all that's magical in Photoshop, can you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by the following two steps?

-muliply layer, masked with gradient set from white to grey
-multiply layer with gradient from white to black, for the slight vignette

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

04/09/2007 01:04:44 AM · #3085

Since Jack posted his recent moon shot, and I have nothing in voting right now, I figured I'd post mine.

It looks about as good as I can get with this camera.

But I have to say, this is one arena in which SLRs and other equipment really do beat any point and shoot. Here's what Mark Bond got using a telescope:

Message edited by author 2007-04-09 01:09:29.

Emerkaza

Canon EOS-50D

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

04/09/2007 01:56:26 AM · #3086

Originally posted by xianart:

o yeah. beautiful spring day.

I live in Alaska and don't have that much snow on the ground right now. It is pretty though. ;-)

raish

Olympus C-2500L

04/09/2007 04:32:03 AM · #3087

Originally posted by posthumous:

Correlation would be a fine thing.

Not sure how best to correlate to comments received. I was wandering by a factory - and factories are pretty much anachronisms in this town - noticing that it was indeed so anachronistic as to be a factory dedicated to the production of sails and sailcloth. The factory is of course closed down. On the wall is a plaque commemorating two workers at the factory who 'died for their country'. It had to be fairly cryptic, but I squeezed the above information into the title, just in case. Apart from one amusing response in Swedish, all comments explained that it was not an anachronism. I can only assume that American voters still buy into the idea of dying for ones country. One feels just a little ill.

April 3

April 7

April 8

Moon

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Greetmir

Nikon D60

Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Nikon

04/09/2007 05:33:00 AM · #3088

I just could NOT get into the chains challenge. All I could think of was this super shot by Erick.

xianart

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

04/09/2007 06:48:11 AM · #3089

Originally posted by Melethia:

ok.

when you do a layer mask, you can change the tone of your 'paint' in the little colour boxes at the bottom. usually they're white and black, but you can change the colours by double clicking on whichever box you want to change. a colour pallette will come up,a nd you can choose whichever you want. for layer masks, only shades of grey really do anything. you can choose any colour you want, but it wont show, as it's masking, not actually baing part of the image!

for instance: in the croc shot, i just wanted a slight reduction in the multply effect, so i changed the black colur to a mid grey. this made the gradient effect (which uses both colours, unlike painting) muchmore subtle.

for the second layer, which was just on the edges of the shot really, i change it back so the centre of the gradient was not affected by the multiply layer at all.

in this image, i used a gradient adjustment layer (rather than a gradient mask on a multiply layer) to give the vignette. it's set to multiply. however, i used the colour picker to change the colour of the gradient from black to one of the blues in the image itself. for that i selected teh color picker (little eyedropper tool) and chose the area fo the blue i wanted on the pic. then i just did the gradient adjustment layer. so for here, the colour does become a part of the image.

i hope this makes sense.

kashi

Nikon D60

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G

04/09/2007 07:41:59 AM · #3090

Contre-jour
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Chains
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Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

04/09/2007 07:48:20 AM · #3091

I think I know what you're saying, but I'll have to play with it. For "gradient" I'm assuming you're choosing the centered gradient thingie and radiating it outward. I have a horrible time trying to "paint" to reduce that effect without it being obvious. But I'll try it and maybe post examples so you can tell me what it is I get and what I don't get. (The older I get, the slower I get.)

I put what I thought was a pretty good attempt at DPC friendly into the chains challenge. I apparently cannot do DPC friendly. I think I should stick to "underrated melethia" shots. I swear, if I had five bucks for every time I get that after a challenge I'd be set for Starbucks runs for a month or two. :-)

xianart

Canon EOS-7D

04/09/2007 07:58:03 AM · #3092

centred gradient thingie it is! i had a horrid time trying to paint it out too. i just figured out i could change the tone of the gradient a little while ago - it certainly makes life easier.

Message edited by author 2007-04-09 07:59:05.

noraneko

Canon EOS R5

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

04/09/2007 08:52:07 AM · #3093

I just want to thank TS members for their truly nice comments on my FS entry - getting compared with

Ursula is a huge honor and I truly appreciate it. Funny thing - Deb thought it was [user]Dr. Achoo[/user]'s shot. When I entered it I actually was hoping people would not think of Achoo, as there was some contraversy surrounding one of his dandelion shots where he evidently stuck a seed away from the seedhead and made it look like it was blowing in the wind. Fine in my book, as

Scalvertuses optical illusion to such advantage regularly and to much admiration. Getting compared with Achoo is also an honor as far as I'm concerned, and looks like my fear was for naught, as it ended up scoring just fine.

Again, thanks TS - love this place.

Last but not least, did anyone else notice Svetlana's stunning finish! Go

silverfoxx!

Edit to add: Sandy P said it best - Silverfoxx is incapable of taking a bad photo. And she probably does look that stunning when she first wakes up. :-)

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raish

Olympus C-2500L

04/09/2007 09:08:50 AM · #3094

You can also change the tone, oppacity, flow and all sorts on the brush if you're painting out areas of a mask. Don't forget you can change the colour to white and paint it back in again, as well.

Message edited by author 2007-04-09 09:10:59.

raish

Olympus C-2500L

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

04/09/2007 09:13:46 AM · #3095

Originally posted by noraneko:

Edit to add: Sandy P said it best - Silverfoxx is incapable of taking a bad photo. And she probably does look that stunning when she first wakes up. :-)

Can't you see she's in a trance? Wake her at your peril.

poser

Canon EOS-60D

04/09/2007 09:38:52 AM · #3096

See I knew my suckness is back :)

Chains

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Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

04/09/2007 09:54:56 AM · #3097

Thanks for all the feedback! That is exactly why I'll probably always be average (or below average) here. I just suck at the post processing. I get too caught up in the "is this legal?" to really attempt to try anything. If it's an image that's not for here, I experiment a bit more (and sometimes get fantastic results). I can't seem to look at something and say, hey what if I darken this and lighten this? Pretty much, I can see the picture, but can't bring it out because I really still don't understand how to! Frustrating!!

On a lighter note... Congrats to the new PB's noraneko and silverfoxx!

Message edited by author 2007-04-09 09:56:39.

noraneko

Canon EOS R5

04/09/2007 10:02:15 AM · #3098

Originally posted by raish:

Originally posted by noraneko:
Edit to add: Sandy P said it best - Silverfoxx is incapable of taking a bad photo. And she probably does look that stunning when she first wakes up. :-)

Can't you see she's in a trance? Wake her at your peril.

LOL - she is holding an iron

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

04/09/2007 10:19:13 AM · #3099

I'm in Chains with a shot that I LOVE!! So that's almost a guarantee of a poor score. It's one I constructed in my mind and then executed, rather that looking for something that fit the challenge. Currently it is at 4.4 with one positive comment. The commenter said he would put it in his favorites, but that didn't happen. :(

I've been having a great time working on the Night Shot. This is one of my goals for this year, so I've been working hard on it. One great side benefit is that my husband has been going with me -- we haven't been out this much at night in ages. What fun it's been.