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Post by preeb on Aug 24, 2015 3:41:08 GMT
We have several places nearby where there are fields of wild sunflowers. This one is a block from the house, and I've taken several photos of them on neighborhood walks. Then last month was the blue moon, which I also couldn't resist. Since our sky has been very hazy for the last couple of weeks from all the fires in the northwest, I had to patch in some blue sky from a third photo and ended up with this composite from 3 images. Both Elements and Lightroom were used for developing and combining selections from the images. This was actually made for a larger project. I have an old window screen from the farmhouse on my wife's family farm that was just wasting away in the barn. We are going to use it to frame two photos, this one and one more that we haven't yet decided on. I will crop this square from the right end for the project and have it printed on canvas. It will eventually hang over the bed in our guest room.
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Post by preeb on Aug 8, 2015 15:39:01 GMT
I don't attach, I use a hosting service (Smugmug), and I link to a 1024 size on the longest edge. Smugmug gives the option of linking from 3XL (1600 px) down to Tiny (100 px), or you can link the original (I upload at 2000 px), and resizes to your specified link. I find that this gives me good results for any of the forums that I post to.
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Post by preeb on Aug 4, 2015 20:32:40 GMT
Arboreal Art, which I photographed today in Lesnes Abbey Woods in south East London - what a gem these woodlands are, hidden away in the urban wilderness where London meets Kent. Brenda Like! An Ent come to life!
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Post by preeb on Aug 3, 2015 15:03:23 GMT
Nice coincidence - this guy was spraying a field just east of the house this morning and I happened to have the right lens mounted (70-200). He was making his turns right over town and flying back right past our house - even straight over the house on a couple of passes. I just raced out and stood in the driveway to get some shots. I was pretty pleased with the results, as I never shot an Airplane in flight before.
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Post by preeb on Aug 2, 2015 17:59:23 GMT
That's on my bucket list Sepiana. I've been on a tiny piece of the old road in Santa Rosa NM, but it's always piqued my interest.
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Post by preeb on Aug 2, 2015 15:17:05 GMT
I think that the moon is pretty old.
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Post by preeb on Jul 26, 2015 3:39:07 GMT
Very nice Sepiana, and one of my favorite Dylan songs.
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Post by preeb on Jul 25, 2015 23:00:30 GMT
So many possibilities that I had to add a second entry. "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" I think a lot of them went here - more sunflowers than there are young girls to pick them. Just a block from my house.
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Post by preeb on Jul 25, 2015 18:45:35 GMT
Reverting back to my childhood, a nursery rhyme/song "The Farmer in the Dell". In this case the farmer is my father in law, who has been a farmer his entire life. He is a month shy of 92 and has farmed either with his father or on his own for some 85 of those years, whether doing farmyard chores or actually farming the land. Here he is just spraying for weeds on our lot as he semi-retired from active farming about 15 years ago, but he still lives at the farm and maintains the yard and all of the buildings, while renting out his land for a share of the proceeds. He is happiest when he is working on the land. They coined the phrase "salt of the earth" for this man.
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Post by preeb on Jul 21, 2015 5:36:52 GMT
Not impossible, but it takes some stitching. This series was 6 images shot in portrait orientation at 186mm focal length with the 70-200 zoom on my Canon 60D. I developed the raw images and stitched them in Lightroom 6.1. The images were of Heart Mountain north of Cody, Wyoming. I like the idea that it's almost the stereotypical western landscape, perfect setting for a scene in a western film.
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Post by preeb on Jul 1, 2015 2:20:47 GMT
We saw these trees along the road today, and they looked so much like a person on horseback that we stopped to grab some photos. I developed it in Lightroom then moved it into PSE for some more fun. I grabbed an image from the web and made a selection to isolate the main figure, then copied it into my photo, resized and positioned it. I don't know if it works or not, as my wife was unimpressed, but I though I'd post it here anyway.
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Post by preeb on Jun 29, 2015 0:01:28 GMT
Okay, I'm shocked! I went and pointed to my Nikon directory and sat amazed at it loaded every picture I ever moved from the camera into Lightroom. Now I just need to clear out the junk photos than consider putting them into groups or catalogs. Guess I have some more learning to do. Cool! "no more boredom," Thanks everyone. One correction, don't make multiple catalogs, use Keywords and Collections to sort your photos. Unless you have a specific need to have multiple catalogs, all you do is confuse things by breaking your images down that way. You can have one catalog with 100,000 images and still find what you need, when you need it if you have everything keyworded and broken down into collections. One photo can have a half dozen keywords and be contained in several collections, yet only reside in a single catalog. It takes a bit of time when you first start out to get yourself organized, but once you do it, you have a very strong tool ready for managing your photos.
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Post by preeb on Jun 27, 2015 23:29:08 GMT
On the 'Prolost' website there are some free Dehaze presets to download for LR 6.1. I've installed them and they work perfectly. The effects are nearly as good as 'Clearview' in Dxo pro elite. Thank you for the tip, Phil. I labored over trying to decide if it was worth $49, but I bit the bullet and I'm really glad I did. The Dehaze is just a tiny bit of the functionality of these presets. The way he has them organized and set up is great. I've already applied some of them to a couple of photos where I've really been struggling the sliders to get the look the way I want it, and with this collection, it was a snap. Worth every penny.
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Post by preeb on Jun 10, 2015 18:37:16 GMT
Also, I can export a raw to jpeg, using the same parameters and image 3 times and get 3 slightly different file sizes. Jpeg conversion is not exact. It can change depending on how the compression is executed each time the raw file is read, and then how the expansion is made when converting back to dng. Different converters can get noticeably different file sizes when converting raw to jpeg.
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Post by preeb on Jun 9, 2015 17:04:28 GMT
Maybe a little too much Photoshop but it addresses the old and new Colin I used to do service and repairs on those old Royals, among others. Nice idea!
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