Photographed TODAY (or Processed today)

[Oskari-]

These are shot last month but processed today. Here you go!

Streets of Lappeenranta

Civic Center

Countryside

Countryside 2

[Nasturtium]

veralisa-the feather capture is just too cool. I love that you ran and got your camera. :-)

dkcoats-I like your post processing. The guy in the orange shirt really draws you eye. I'm not too crazy about pictures of peoples backs.

Frank those are some marvelous textures. I especially like the geometric shapes
& you have a fabulous signature

Oskari-those are stunning! Can you tell me what you did to keep the sky blue in the third picture you call 'Countryside'?

I've been playing around some of DS's Pokemon's. It's a very interesting learning process.

[Oskari-]

Nasturtium: Thanks Countryside is a three exposure blending. That´s how I got those vivid colors.

[fpellerin]

One more door...shot yesterday, processed today.

[fpellerin]

Originally Posted by Nasturtium

Frank those are some marvelous textures. I especially like the geometric shapes
& you have a fabulous signature

Thank you!

[Frank Lopes]

Lately I've noticed more and more posts with links to photos instead of the actual photos.

Since links come and go and pictures get moved and/or deleted, many of the links in this thread no longer work, which is a shame since some of them, pointed to rather remarkable photos.

I appeal to all posters to please make an effort to post the images in retouchpro.com instead of creating links to where the images are located.

Thanks.

[Nasturtium]

frank-I think that door is gorgeously grungy.

Here are three from yesterday morning. The light was AMAZING! I think I have the whole f-stop thing backwards. Must experiment more. These are with the Canon D40 and the 100mm I think the f-stop was 3.5 on all of them. Maybe a higher number would give me prettier blur in the background?

[daitri]

here is a picture that was taken on wednesday but processed today.
blend of 3 images, cropped,brightened & contrast,sharpened

[Veralisa]

Nasturtium, I liked the dried seed heads...very 'earthy" and particularly the first one. The composition keeps the eye moving.

Frank, isn't it a revelation to our non-art friends that we are able to see things which would otherwise be ignored? I love the big barn door. Imagine the life it's seen passing through.

[CJ Swartz]

Nasturtium, the other part of getting nicely blurred backgrounds besides a large aperture is the distance between the subject and the background - if you look at your third image of the seed heads, the background is blurred more than the first two (you thought you used the same wide aperture of 3.5 on all of them). The background is farther behind the subject and that allows for more blurring effect. It's the same for your Pokemon's - the first yellow one is farther away from its background and stands out with a blurred background. My favorite dog photographer (actually dog/family photographer), Erin Vey uses depth of field as a wonderful tool for many of her images. Example from ErinVey.com

Another example from Erin Vey

[Nasturtium]

daitri - that is REALLY cool

CJ - A big THANK YOU for the tips. Some really great dog pictures in that link.

Well.......I'm done processings DH's sailing images, yay! And thank goodness for LAB color space. I've been procrastinating doing this. Culled 23 from the 280 and the three attached ones I'm pretty pleased with the post-processing - they were so blah but I increased the b curve in LAB and now I think they're pretty punchy.

Galllery

[friiskiwi]

The sun finally returned after 3 days of rain, and I found my Cherry tree in full bloom. The wet petals had a lovely transparancy.

[andyong]

shot & processed it today..my daughter Nicoletta Vincenzia Ong, today is her first birthday 30-09-2009.

[fpellerin]

Originally Posted by andyong

shot & processed it today..my daughter Nicoletta Vincenzia Ong, today is her first birthday 30-09-2009.

She's a cutie. I wish her a happy birthday!

[andyong]

thank you very much, fpellerin...

Originally Posted by fpellerin

She's a cutie. I wish her a happy birthday!

[MiningArt]

May all her days be with big smiles and bright eyes like this one. Happy belated birthday Nicoletta.

[andyong]

thank you very much, John..

Originally Posted by MiningArt

May all her days be with big smiles and bright eyes like this one. Happy belated birthday Nicoletta.

[Nasturtium]

I started a new thread here. This one is getting really long.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...oday-cont.html

[Gee]

my latest series... 10 images or something

http://bit.ly/2fupyi

[Frank Lopes]

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