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[Nasturtium]

this is a continuation of this thread;

What did you photograph today? What did you develop/process in your digital editing software today?

Post it here with a bit of a description so we can all share in your fun.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...sed-today.html


I started a new thread ~ the last one was getting really long.

First I took a snap with my P&S on the 'food' preset to see what aperture it chose. Then I set up the SLR with that setting and played a bit. I now have a new found admiration for still life painters. DS helped me with the dodge and burning. This probably would have looked better BEFORE I ate half the grapes.

[friiskiwi]

rowing race Saturday 3rd Ocotber 09.

[Veralisa]

From Saturday, 10/03/09:
Our town had it's annual Hoedown on Saturday, just another name for Fall Street Fair. My hubby met up w/ a friend of his who was walking his 5 dogs. Now, try as I might it was extremely difficult to get all the dogs into one shot, and if I could, I couldn't see them in the LCD screen, it was just so bright out. So, the first is the shot unaltered except for size and the second one is entitled, "Heads You Win". You figure out why!

Nasturtium, I've heard of art that looked good enough to eat, and yours is one of them. Most beautiful arrangement.BTW, excellent move to creat another thread.
Friiskiwi, the rowers look great. What camera do you use? Really nice shot.

[daitri]

beach hut photographed and processed.
3 exposures blended & a bit of brightness & contrast.

[friiskiwi]

Originally Posted by Veralisa

From Saturday, 10/03/09:

Friiskiwi, the rowers look great. What camera do you use? Really nice shot.

Thank you, I use a Canon 450D and a canon 55-250mm lens for this shot.

[friiskiwi]

Bluebells, photographed yesterday, proccessed today. HDR and Topaz.
Canon 400D canon 17-40mm lens and a tripod.

[Algarve Images]

Lovely multiple exposure Daitri,
Nasturtium, i really like that fruit image
Veralisa i still don't get the heads thing, but may be i'm being thick today lol!
I've been really very busy recently creating a my photographic studio in the Algarve, going to try building a stud wall over the weekend across the shop so i can create a reception area... will put up some images of the before and after a little later.
Meanwhile here's a little old stone lady i came across in Loule,
regards,
Gary..

[Nasturtium]

friskiwi - great capture ~ you really caught how hard they are rowing. Well done! Those flowers are stunning.
Veralisa - those dogs are so cute. What a unique angle
Gary - your post processing on the old stone lady really enhanced the mood of the image. Please let us see the before/during & after shots of the reception area.

I found some cows today, happy dance!

[friiskiwi]

Nasturtium - Thanks for thekind words about my photos. Love the colours in the Cows photo.

[CJ Swartz]

daitri, really love your beach hut image - love the composition as well as the processing.

Nasturtium, so happy that you found cows!! But the fruit is a wonderful study also.

Gary - love the stone lady image!

Veronica - love the dogs - happy faces and tails to match!

friiskiwi - love the colors and composition!

I took my dog out to the scrub desert area near our development and saw a couple of jackrabbits (hares) and five or six turkey vultures - they hadn't found anything to eat yet, but were circling pretty low in hopes of a tasty meal.

[MiningArt]

Nasturtium, I really love the rich colors and shadows in your cow shot. Is that the way it came from the camera or was there post processing?

[Nasturtium]

MiningArt - heavily post-processed :-)

[friiskiwi]

View from my office window at home.
I took this at about 7am this morning. It's HDR (Photomatix) and a bit of photoshop. It's supposed to be spring, racing towards summer, but there was more snow on the mountains than we saw in the depth of winter.
CJ Swartch - I love the last of your vulture shots.

[Algarve Images]

Nasturtium, i like the rich colours in the cows image, is that some kind of gothic glow?
CJ Swartz, i have not seen a Turkey vulture before, just the european type, are they quite large?
This is one of a statue in Ayamonte Square, Ayamonte is the last Spanish town before the border with Portugal. Tiny bit of pp and lucis to dramatise and bring out some of the shadow.

[CJ Swartz]

Gary, the turkey vulture is large, with a naked red head, and a wingspan between 5-6 feet. From what I read, your European vultures have a wider wingspan.

Your statue image succeeds at being dramatic in diagonal composition. Your statues are also larger than U.S. statues, I believe.

[Algarve Images]

Originally Posted by CJ Swartz

Gary, the turkey vulture is large, with a naked red head, and a wingspan between 5-6 feet. From what I read, your European vultures have a wider wingspan.

Your statue image succeeds at being dramatic in diagonal composition. Your statues are also larger than U.S. statues, I believe.

Ha ha!..
i thought everything in the US was larger lol!
Thanks for the spec on the Turkey vulture,
regards,
Gary..

[Nasturtium]

I like this and I don't know why. I don't know what to do with it either.

the workflow on the cows was something like this;

steepen the a curve in LAB to emphasize the red/green
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18308
sharpen according to this;
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...tml#post236077

I've made an action out of it. I usually reduce the opacity of the top layer to about 50%

[Nasturtium]

It's not quite fall here yet. But there was some amazing light during my bike ride today.

[Nasturtium]

Found a cow to take pictures of. :-) Gave it the 'old master's treatment'

Dutch weather is NOT co-operating for this month's RTP challenge :-(

[philbach]

Well yesterday I was walking on the Beach and saw this brown pelican taking off about 200 yards away. I had my canon Powershot and took a shot having no idea of what I got since it was bright sunlight and all I had was a led screen. But I got that fellow taking off. It probably was shot at 1/1500 of a second.

[CJ Swartz]

philbach -- Cool !!

Good thing you were close and he was heading away rather than moving to the side (although shutter speed of 1/1500 probably would have caught that also). Best thing you did was being out with a camera where you were ready for whatever interesting event occurred.

Thanks for sharing - we don't see many pelicans in Arizona, although they do show up sometimes.

Originally Posted by philbach

... saw this brown pelican taking off about 200 yards away. I had my canon Powershot and took a shot having no idea of what I got since it was bright sunlight and all I had was a led screen. But I got that fellow taking off. It probably was shot at 1/1500 of a second.

[palms]

I took this last week and meant to post it but forgot,
messing around trying to get a water drop


Palms

[philbach]

What's for Lunch

I was walking on a path at noon today and took this snap. I was wondering if the gator was as hungry as I was.

Taken with Canon Power shot.

[Algarve Images]

One taken during a charity bike ride last weekend..
Still up to my neck in building my studio and up until the weekend hadn't picked up my cam for over a month,
regards,
Gary..

[Algarve Images]

Another one from the weekend, shot on the beach near Lagoa, Algarve
regards,
Gary..

[Algarve Images]

Same boy again, i think you'll agree he's very photogenic,
regards,
Gary..

[Nasturtium]

Phil, so did you eat one of those birds too? :-)
palms1 - Nice 'messing around'
Gary! Those are wonderful! They give such a sense of being all relaxed and happy on the beach

Well I did something I've been meaning to do for weeks. I caught the pink sunrise. This is a blend of four of the captures. I'm most definitely going through a 'pink' phase

- Nancy

[edited to add an edit from Sunday morning, I see a pattern of blending exposures]

[Algarve Images]

Gary! Those are wonderful! They give such a sense of being all relaxed and happy on the beach

Thanks Nasturtium,
here are a few more from that weekend,
kind regards,
Gary..

[Algarve Images]

A few i processed today,
regards,
Gary..

[hawkeye60]

Processed today from arecent trip to Egypt and Jordan.

Selling coffee in Jordan: