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Carlen Boersema
{K:6789} 8/19/2006
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Thank you Linda! This whole area is a feast for the eyes. It's incredibly busy and colourful.
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Linda Mac Donald
{K:1892} 8/19/2006
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Wow, This is a great shot Carlin; the colors of the houses are beautifully saturated and the detail of the brick as well as the dental moulding on the houses are so clear. I love the contrast of the center garden yard to and the 2 stores on either side. Good eye here Carlin most would have passed this by. I love it.
Linda Mac
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Carlen Boersema
{K:6789} 8/16/2006
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I appreciate your comments James. I originally did what you said. I selected the sky and tried to find a picture to match it. I can't remember if that blue sky was a filter I used or a photo.
Also, it was kind of a joke. I know you couldn't tell online but I knew it looked a bit ridiculous from the start.
I actually kind of like the sky a little washed out since there is so much going on in the rest of the photo.
*shrug*
oh yes - the power lines. Thanks! (they were a pain in the butt lol)
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* James *
{K:20200} 8/15/2006
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not sure how you got the blue sky, did you paint it in using the software? i had an overexposed sky on one of my photos from the gansu grasslands last year. i was in the same area the day prior and took a similar photo that day, and the sky was blue with nice fluffy clouds. so in the end, i ended up selecting, cutting and pasting the blue sky from one photo and adding it to the other photo (which had better detail on the ground) to make one decent photo. i dont really like doing that, but i didnt have such great luck taking photos in that area so i had to come up with something.
what i'm saying is its sometimes better to just cut and paste a real sky into a photo that needs one, instead of painting one in. the sky you added is fine i think (as i said i dont know how you did it), but it does seem a bit deep in colour, altho with a polarizer on a bright sunny day early in the morning it could pass. just providing an alternative here in case you werent aware.
good work getting rid of those power lines too.
james
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Eb Mueller
{K:24960} 7/22/2006
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I like this colourful and realistic Kensington shot! There is an amazing amount of interesting detail! The addition of artificial blue sky may not help - try to be very subtle!
Eb
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Ron Wilson
{K:18362} 7/21/2006
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Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson, he just wrote an updated version from his original 20 years ago. PS CS2 bible by McClelland. Get the bible and if you want a copy of CS2 , well we can talk.
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Carlen Boersema
{K:6789} 7/21/2006
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Yeah I liked that area. The store on the right hand side of this photo is closing. =/
I liked china town too. I felt the most relaxed in it which is weird. I bet a lot of outsiders think they're gonna get shot or something equally ridiculous lol. But it's a fun place. I got some great sunglasses for $7 and the lady was really nice but didn't speak a lot of English. No pictures because I wasn't sure if it was acceptable in their culture.
As for the books, I'm one step ahead of you. I've already taken out numerous photography books a couple summers ago and am re-reading some this summer to refresh. Last week I read Digital Photography Boot Camp: A Step-by-Step Guide for Professionals and The Joy Digital Photography for the 2nd time. I liked it so much I bought it.
Now I'm reading Shooting digital: pro tips for taking great pictures with your digital camera and I think it's one of the best books I've read.
And of course I've read some of Tom Ang's books.
Can't remember the rest. :) Do you have anymore suggestions?
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Ron Wilson
{K:18362} 7/21/2006
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Wow, love this shot Carlen. I thought I recognized the area. I lived around the corner as a kid on Augusta. Had a blast, it's such a lively part of the city. The houses were colourful back then too. You got lots of time to learn about curves and levels. Try the library. There are great reference books when I don't have them signed out. The horizion adjustment is easy too. Regards Ron.
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Jacob French
{K:6315} 7/21/2006
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Carlen, levels (at least in PS2, I can't speak directly for PSP7, I can only assume terms are cross product) sets the dynamic range of your photo. Basically, you adjust your midtones, highlights, and shadows with this tool. You'll find in any editing program that there are many tools to do the same job. For instance, often instead of levels, I use the Curves tool.
Hope this helps a little!
J
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Carlen Boersema
{K:6789} 7/19/2006
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how's this
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Carlen Boersema
{K:6789} 7/19/2006
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okay I found the levels tool but I tried to edit it and nothing happened, I don't understand what it's supposed to do.
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Carlen Boersema
{K:6789} 7/19/2006
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I'm using Paint Shop Pro 7 not adobe photoshop.
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/19/2006
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PS uses "CTRL-L" to shortcut to levels.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 7/19/2006
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Carlen:
Good job on the wires. If you're using an editing program like PS . . . I would recommend you isolate the sky and adjust levels for it ( )and it alone. It would make a huge impact on the overall quality of your work. Also, to my eye, this shot isn't level . . . by a tad or two ;)
The image is a fun one though, with lots for the eye to see and amuse itself with . . . a hodge-podge of colors all rendered well. I especially like the folding chair on the second story (what WE call second story here anyway....I know some call it the 1st story, which is above the ground floor!) Really cool!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Michalis P.S.
{K:10136} 7/19/2006
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Beautiful shot. It is unfortunate that the sky is washed out in this photo. The rest of the photo is very colourful.
Well done,
Michalis
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