Not a mountain, lake or tree

[Donald]

Sometimes, even in a place like Yosemite, you look for something just a bit different from mountains, trees and water.

A project that I had in mind going to Yosemite and which exists as a sub-set of images is about 'People in the Park'. I haven't even started work on those yet, except ...........

Relaxing by Tenaya Lake.

As always, comments are welcome.

[Dave Humphries]

What have you done with the real Donald?

Well that was certainly a (nice) surprise.

Being really pernickety, I can see a few tiny things I'd have addressed, probably with a Clone stamp or Spot Healing tool (YMMV) and I'm talking about the foreground, background and image edges, not your model. I could demonstrate if you wish (be easier than describing).


I guess it must be 'you' though - because it:

looks like a landscape,
it's monochrome
and it is square

A project that I had in mind going to Yosemite and which exists as a sub-set of images is about 'People in the Park'.

I'm looking forward to the next one already!

Cheers, Dave

PS
Regarding the title; it looks like a mountain, has a tree and lake in though.

[Donald]

I could demonstrate if you wish (be easier than describing).

Please go ahead.

[bje07]

That becomes already a dope

[madcrow]

Now that's what I would call real mountains. Made me smile, great humour.

[rpcrowe]

Donald... Now we know why you traveled half way across the world

A "People in the Park" theme would be quite interesting.

[mknittle]

At first I thought Tinypics was at it again

[Mike Buckley]

It's clear to me that this image was made by Donald's evil twin. He even provided a thread title indicating that there is no tree or lake, despite that both are indeed displayed in the image.

Seriously though, I like this a lot. I look forward to learning whether Dave notices the very minor issues I would address, which I'm confident he'll notice.

[Dave Humphries]

Please go ahead.

I'm sure I'll have missed some things that Mike had his eye on

Also, I was using this image as an exercise in advancing to layer based editing in PS CC, so it took ages while I figured out how to do what I'd usually do mushing pixels in the "Background" (layer) in to a set of layers and masks to achieve the same thing. The masking won't be good, as I am a complete novice - I even started using the Wacom with pressure sensitive enabled.

Enough excuses, let's see what I came up with - hopefully it's the same size (and all), so alternately switching between them in LyteBox should reveal what I did.

Did I say it would be quicker to show than describe? well, I sure got that wrong
(but I learnt a heck of a lot)



HTH, Dave

[Mike Buckley]

You got both of the items I noticed, Dave.

[Shadowman]

A perfect diversion from a text full of landscapes, I can just see the hesitation as viewers scan through your collection.

[mugge]

Donald, will the real Donald please stand up. Great shot and great shot if you know what I mean. The angles are just perfect to my mind. Well, I never----
Cheers Ole