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kathleen fonseca (K:11992)
5/19/2004 8:18:40 AM
Hi, Kurt..yup, this is more or less the grain i would have if i reduced my images to UF size..Very interesting what you said about getting this one printed and getting a clean print. Thanks for the reassurance! The only thing that bothers me about printing from the negative is not having a chance to adjust contrast and levels first..but it's quite possible that the scan has affected those characteristics as well as the grain and that the negative might be much better than the scan. In the end, scanning out own negatvies is the way to go. This is such a nice image. Bono looks like a wonderful friend and i love the grain! take care: kat~
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Critique By:
Guido Tweepenninckx (K:20076)
5/18/2004 2:42:23 PM
mooie opname,foto mag iets groter 800x800
groetjes
guido
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Marcus Armani (K:36599)
5/18/2004 1:19:03 PM
very nice shot, great colors and composition,
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Anouschka Rokebrand (K:6470)
5/17/2004 8:43:21 AM
This is a very nice portrait Kurt! A very natural capture. Maybe the crop at the top could be a bit tighter and less tight at the bottom would be nice?
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Critique By:
Elena Zabelina (K:23212)
5/4/2004 5:56:08 PM
Excellent portrait of your friend, Kurt. Great lighting and his face is very impressive.
Thank you for your comment to my dance serie.
I use Photo Shop. At first you must select figures of dancer with Lasso Tool. Then Select(from top bar)- Inverse (in this case selection will change from figures to all backgroung around them). Then chose Filter - Blure (any of them: Gaussian, Motion or Radial) and start one after another, what better to this pose. One advise, when you did selection first time, save it Selection-Save selection, then you don't need do selection every time again and again. Next time you can just Load selection and your selection will come to you, as you save it. There is a lots of small details, but you can recognice them later. For example, you will need blure lines aroud figures, but it's different story. If you will have a problem, ask me again, I will be happy to help you.
Regards,
Lena
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sandy c. hopkins (K:17107)
2/11/2004 6:02:50 PM
hi bono! daddy took a good shot of you..
nice portrait of a lovely creature..good bw also like dof
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Anouschka Rokebrand (K:6470)
2/5/2004 6:11:21 AM
Toch deze foto genomen dus! Ik vind deze heel geschikt inderdaad Kurt. Leuk effect heb je bereikt, voor een cd hoes zeker heel toepasselijk!
Anouschka
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Critique By:
Daniel Saaiman (K:1222)
1/31/2004 4:17:58 AM
Again, nice effect and I like the purple.
Cool one!
Regards, Danie
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Francesca May (K:6877)
1/29/2004 2:16:00 AM
Very nice family! =)
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Raoul Endres (K:2676)
1/29/2004 1:29:46 AM
This reminds me of how I feel when I have too much to drink! Photo works well I think.
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Critique By:
Murat Tanriover (K:8387)
1/29/2004 12:50:11 AM
This is better than the first one Kurt...
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Anouschka Rokebrand (K:6470)
1/29/2004 12:42:52 AM
Kurt, deze is zeker beter zonder dat licht aan de rechterkant. Het paars is wel erg fel naar mijn bescheiden mening. Ik persoonlijk zou het liever iets minder fel zien. Verder is hij top!
Leuk trouwens van je vriend die gaat emigreren! Als ik jou was, zou ik hem zeker heeel snel op gaan zoeken in Oz. Het is er echt fantastisch!
Anouschka
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Critique By:
Rawabi Al-Nuaimi (K:15659)
1/8/2004 3:34:14 PM
he he.. very sweeeeeet
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Critique By:
Kurt Pas (K:2267)
1/5/2004 12:04:47 AM
Brent,
Thanks for the comment. I defenately have to start learning PS!
Nice to hear you?re a climber too.
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Critique By:
Brent Mills (K:730)
1/4/2004 3:50:02 PM
Kurt, this is definitely fixable in PS. It just needs a few adjustments. I spent about 10 mins on this one and got the result below. I made a duplicate layer and adjusted it (using curves) so that the sky was what I wanted (coincidentally the boulder itself came out pretty well inthis layer also). then I adjusted the base layer so that the grass and weeds were correct. Then I used a mask on the sky and boulder alyer in order to merge the two properly. After flattening this layer, I used a hue/saturation adjustment layer to fix the saturation problems. This only left problems with the boulder. IT was still blueish in tint and slightly burned out. So I flattened these layers and made a new color balance adjustment layer. I simply I adjusted the highlights and the shadows on the cyan/red slider so that they were closer to the red side to prefect the color (I used this more on highlights than shadows). That gave me the image that I included here. Hope this helps! Great shot originally. Being a mountain climber I especially love it. It reminds me of being on the mountains again. Nice capture.
-Brent
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Critique By:
Pedro Libório (K:36301)
12/30/2003 8:47:40 AM
wonderful image...it should be bigger!
regards.
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Critique By:
Ellen Havrilla (K:8618)
12/30/2003 7:04:00 AM
Wonderfull landscape!!
regards Ellen
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Anouschka Rokebrand (K:6470)
12/30/2003 5:47:53 AM
Great image Kurt! Beautiful landscape and a nice clear image. I love the little waterfall on the right. Good work!
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Critique By:
Andrzej Szewczyk (K:315)
12/30/2003 4:17:30 AM
Very good composition, and amazing view
Great job!
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Teunis Haveman (K:37426)
12/30/2003 4:12:35 AM
Kurt, Great landscape
Nice colours and compositie
Teunis
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Andrej V (K:6693)
12/30/2003 4:10:13 AM
wondrefull lanscape!
my compliments,
Andreas
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Critique By:
Fabio Keiner (K:81109)
12/26/2003 12:21:12 PM
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Critique By:
Teunis Haveman (K:37426)
12/26/2003 12:11:31 PM
Kurt, nice texture
Teunis
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Critique By:
Paolo Barthelemy (K:25552)
12/22/2003 5:49:09 AM
I agree with Hermen about the solution and I agree with you about the composition: it's very well done and the shot has a very nice perspective. Furthermore, you may try to take this shot during late afternoon when lighting is softer and colors are warmer.
My best regards and greetings, Paolo
P.S. Many thanks for you kind and useful comment.
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David Yates (K:4698)
12/22/2003 5:40:52 AM
Great family portrait! Love the expressions- particularly the rebellious youth who seems to be sticking his tongue out at you.
Wonderful shot- thanks for sharing.
Regards, David
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Critique By:
Robert Gaither (K:34128)
12/20/2003 10:36:51 AM
Not sure on scanner make it as big as resolution it can get they say? You can work with it in ps in channels its a lot of work through. Maybe a better scanner or scanning from film or negatives. Drum scanners are the best from what I've read. Maybe just invest in a digital camera for Christmas for they have come down in price.
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Critique By:
Hermen Pen (K:9168)
12/19/2003 3:06:37 PM
I would change the settings in such a way that the scan comes out darker.
(Not sure how that can be done with your scanner / software, with my Minolta this is fairly easy to achieve though). If, with the new settings, some parts come out too dark, you can lighten them up with the 'dodge' tool in Photoshop/Photoimpact, etc. Note that lighting underexposed parts (dodging) works much better than darkening overexposed parts (burning). The dodged parts may be a bit more noisy but stil contain detail. The burnt parts will not get detail back, it simply is not in the scan anymore due to the overexposure. Good luck!
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Critique By:
Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia (K:96391)
12/19/2003 1:14:41 PM
great.cong.
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Critique By:
Chris Lauritzen (K:14949)
12/19/2003 8:04:17 AM
Sorry I ment to add also that I did use Photoshop 7.
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Critique By:
Chris Lauritzen (K:14949)
12/19/2003 8:03:30 AM
Kurt,
I have used that scanner in the past and never really had any good luck with it then it finally died on me. You might want to download Vuescan (www.hamrick.com) which is decent scanner software that can help get the best out of a scanner. You might also want to consider selling that scanner and getting a better one (Canon, Minolta, Nikon?). Your scans will look tons better without having to do a lot of adjustments after the scan.
As far as what I did here, I first did an overall levels adjustment, I made sure the highlights and darkness pointers where at first peaks. Then I adjusted the middle slider (midrange) to find a good balance. I then masked off the sky and burned it in a bit to darken it. I then lighten only the foreground rock to help pull the details out.
Then I opened the saved image in Neat Image to clean up the noise in the sky and smooth out the details of the rocks.
As an added note, when shoot something like this you might want to watch the exposure as the brightness on the rock in the foreground can cause the camera to underexpose this. I don?t think that happened here but it?s something to watch out for.
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