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HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:ENTS GIVING ME THE FINGER!

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I guess I should have used a tripod



Orig.pic: http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 891re4.jpg

and a different ISO setting

ISO3200:

Showoff

A perfectly good pair of tits walking down the street and you focused on a dog's ass. :icon33:

No open container laws in Iowa? I'm transferring.

Was the reason you shot the picture because the girl is walking on the street and the dog on the sidewalk?

l0g1c wrote:No open container laws in Iowa? I'm transferring.

Was the reason you shot the picture because the girl is walking on the street and the dog on the sidewalk?

*DING* It's also an example of how to take a picture without looking through the viewfinder


It was after a tornado and there were thousands of people outside... There was no way to enforce a container law.

A couple of pics from Colorado. I didn't take nearly as many as I had planned to -- once you start snowboarding, you kind of forget all about pictures. I didn't even take my camera out of my jacket the first day we were there.

I did what I could with these, but I need a better camera and to do some reading on composition I'm afraid...








I took a couple more, but I'm having a hard time making them all look like I want - mostly because of my noob-ness with photoshop.

Nice work R00k, especially that first one. it looks like the Provia 400F slide film I just bought.

Dave wrote:Nice work R00k, especially that first one. it looks like the Provia 400F slide film I just bought.

Cool, thanks Dave! :icon32:

Here's a few I made tonight... Funny R00k mentioning Photoshop just now because I was just thinking about how hard it must be to learn without years of just playing around with it. There's really no way to learn it in books or taking classes (except 8 different ways to make a mask).

Wow great pics, especially that second one.

Dave wrote:Funny R00k mentioning Photoshop just now because I was just thinking about how hard it must be to learn without years of just playing around with it. There's really no way to learn it in books or taking classes (except 8 different ways to make a mask).

I've talked to people at work who use it a lot, to get some tips and such from people with experience.

It's funny - there are photogs and creative people who do this for a living, and have gotten really good at touching up photos. Then, there is a guy who works in my department, who has been tinkering with it for years as a hobby (along with 3D art and film stuff).

The photo/creative people's skills don't even begin to touch the depth of knowledge that my co-worker has with the application.

You don't realize how deep an application Photoshop is until you talk to somebody who really knows how it works behind the scenes. Really understanding the way masking and pixel re-mapping and raw color data, etc. all work together is something that definitely takes years of just using it - and just playing around with it.

Bryan (the guy in my dept.) showed me a cool learning trick one day -- take a blank image and create 3 or 4 long rectangles - fill them with black, red, green and blue - and apply a gradient to them for your playing/testing image. Then you can futz around with nearly every tool in PS, and by watching what happens to the gradients you can start to understand what's happening to the colors/color data as you make changes. Not only does it show you how to manipulate colors certain ways, it also helps you understand things like posterization better, and how to avoid them.

My most used trick is white balance... there's no real easy way to do it, but if you apply Levels and click on something in your image you think should be white using the white dropper or grey with the grey dropper (duh) then fade the Levels immediately after (Command/Control+Shift+F) and choose color from the drop down, you can usually fix the colors perfectly.

You can pretty much fix any thing by fading levels or curves unless the photo is completely crap

R00k I would like your pictures a lot more if you didn't tilt the camera to the left on every picture. All the trees in your pic's are leaning to the right.

R00k wrote:

This looks REALLY familiar. Which resort is that? Copper?

Yo.. here's some crappy stuff from me.



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Pooinyourmouth wrote:R00k I would like your pictures a lot more if you didn't tilt the camera to the left on every picture. All the trees in your pic's are leaning to the right.

The 3rd and 4th ones are tilted a little, but I was hanging the camera out the car window so I'm just happy they turned out as well as they did. But I like the 3rd one that way, because it looks interesting when you focus on the road, so I didn't rotate it.

For the rest, they just look that way because I was on a mountain. In the first pic, you can see that the nearest tree is leaning to the right, but the rest are pretty much straight up. That's why I picked that tree.

Dave wrote:My most used trick is white balance... there's no real easy way to do it, but if you apply Levels and click on something in your image you think should be white using the white dropper or grey with the grey dropper (duh) then fade the Levels immediately after (Command/Control+Shift+F) and choose color from the drop down, you can usually fix the colors perfectly.

You can pretty much fix any thing by fading levels or curves unless the photo is completely crap

I use the white point eyedropper quite a bit (and just started really using curves recently), but I've never faded the levels. I'll have to try that out, thanks.

Fender wrote:

R00k wrote:

This looks REALLY familiar. Which resort is that? Copper?

We passed Copper on our way back out, so I think it is.

But I honestly don't remember.

R00k wrote:

Dave wrote:My most used trick is white balance... there's no real easy way to do it, but if you apply Levels and click on something in your image you think should be white using the white dropper or grey with the grey dropper (duh) then fade the Levels immediately after (Command/Control+Shift+F) and choose color from the drop down, you can usually fix the colors perfectly.

You can pretty much fix any thing by fading levels or curves unless the photo is completely crap

I use the white point eyedropper quite a bit (and just started really using curves recently), but I've never faded the levels. I'll have to try that out, thanks.

If you don't fade the levels, it changes the luminosity. If the point you pick isn't the whitest pixel in the photo, it will change everything brighter than that to white too and you you selected to grey.

I thought selecting a white point changed that particular color to white - and everything lighter was discarded and changed to that color as well, and everything darker was re-mapped appropriately.

So if you don't hit Ctrl-Shift-F, it doesn't work that way?

edit: oh, n/m, you said luminosity.

i think i deleted something at the end of my last post...