Landscapes

[Reed Waters]

Thanks for the comments. , Yep Antonio, that's better. I have to work on my "popping", I'm still learning PP. I really like the reflection of the fence in the water.

Speaking of reflections, here is another:

[Antonio Correia]

This time Reed, it was a really piece of cake
Duplicate layer and adjust Opacity at will.
A tender mask in the whites and brighter areas to make the image pop.
That's it ! (Like Janis Joplin in her song)

[Letrow]

The Dordogne, the view from our (rented) house

[Katy Noelle]

here a pic I captured a few evenings ago during sunset
(i was out for dinner... but I mean actually out: some "panini" (=sandwiches) on the cliff)
nice place, beautiful sunset, but I didn't a good work with this picture...
I will try again soon and it will be my first attempt to an HDR!
anyway I think it is a quite good picture
isn't it?
thanks for viewing, commenting, etc. etc.
Nicola

Yes, Nicola, I hope that this does grow on you more. It's so soft and cool and atmospheric. I really like it!

[Antonio Correia]

Today I have been making some photos with my son's Canon 7D.
I found it to be fast, with pleasing tones, nice sound when shooting and pleasant to hold. I was using my 24-70.
However, I couldn't move the focus point to where I wanted but never mind, I am not going to buy one for now.
This image is the merge of 3.

[Antonio Correia]

The Dordogne, the view from our (rented) house

Oh it's a nice view Peter
It is a very nice flower indeed

[Katy Noelle]

The Dordogne, the view from our (rented) house

Lucky, lucky you - what a view!!! I would just love to get a crack at a scene like this. You did it beautifully, though.

[Katy Noelle]

Today I have been making some photos with my son's Canon 7D.
I found it to be fast, with pleasing tones, nice sound when shooting and pleasant to hold. I was using my 24-70.
However, I couldn't move the focus point to where I wanted but never mind, I am not going to buy one for now.
This image is the merge of 3.

Sounds like a fun day with the camera! It is a super fun image and, not to be too strange but I like the rhythmic - shadowy line at the top. (Is that strange?)

[MiniChris]

Fiddling about with places I think I could just sit and admire until the next big flood came along.

[MiniChris]

And yet, one more place to sit until the tides washed me out to sea like so much flotsam...

[MiniChris]

And lastly,,,

[Antonio Correia]

Sounds like a fun day with the camera! It is a super fun image and, not to be too strange but I like the rhythmic - shadowy line at the top. (Is that strange?)

It is a cantilevered part of an old building with electric wires Katy
Thank you for commenting

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you Chris for your 3 excellent shots

[dje]

This time Reed, it was a really piece of cake
Duplicate layer and adjust Opacity at will.
A tender mask in the whites and brighter areas to make the image pop.
That's it ! (Like Janis Joplin in her song)

Hi Antonio was that using Colour Burn on the duplicate layer ? Did you use a similar technique on Reed's earlier image ? Cheers Dave

[Letrow]

Oh it's a nice view Peter
It is a very nice flower indeed

Lucky, lucky you - what a view!!! I would just love to get a crack at a scene like this. You did it beautifully, though.

Thanks. I wasn't totally happy though, this was shot with my Ricoh in 2009 and I was looking for something a bit more spectacular. So, I'll have to try again this year (with a different camera and lenses). I am curious to see whether there will be sunflowers though. They grow them one year, but than the ground has got to rest before they can do it again.

[Letrow]

And yet, one more place to sit until the tides washed me out to sea like so much flotsam...

Did you do a special kind of processing on this shot? The colours and the sky look different than what I would expect somehow.

And lastly,,,

Great shots, I loved this one especially. Great atmosphere and reflections in the water.

[MiniChris]

Did you do a special kind of processing on this shot? The colours and the sky look different than what I would expect somehow.



Great shots, I loved this one especially. Great atmosphere and reflections in the water.

I did...but only to a very small degree. I went in and did some HDR toning on a copy, then melded the two together, eventually painting out much of the sky. I often do an adjustments layer of levels, curves, and some others and when I am finished, I can go back and do a little selective dodging and burning on that layer, either within its own mask, or by adding a neutral layer above it. There are at least two gradient fills on the sky and one to soft light over a white to clear gradient on the bottom half of the scene to enhance the structure of the foreground rocks.

[Letrow]

I went in and did some HDR toning on a copy

ha ha, I suspected as much. I did some experimenting with LuminanceHDR myself yesterday, but so far the results were disappointing (too obviously HDR). I might try it your way maybe and put the original photo and the HDR one in two separate layers and then find a nice middle ground.

[MiniChris]

that's pretty much what I did..the HDR was too-too, you know..too-too, so I copied the original post edited print back onto the HDR image and used varying layer options to add and subtract. I like it, and I don't like it...weird, eh?

[Reed Waters]

Geesh Antonio, I may as well send my pics to you. I have Lightroom and Elements 9 and I can't get anything like that yet.

I took this on the beach at Cape Cod. I'm not sure it works but I keep going back to it. Any comment on it would be appreciated.