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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2008 16:25:22 GMT -5
Image of granddaughter during fishing derby, converted to black and white. I sometimes forget how much I loved Tri-X. D300, 18-70 Nikkor. ISO 200
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Post by John Parry on Jun 3, 2008 17:45:22 GMT -5
Lovely picture Wayne!
She's so obviously trying to concentrate on her rod, but what the guys have caught is too much to ignore! Lovely!
Regards - John
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Post by SidW on Jun 3, 2008 18:36:51 GMT -5
Well done Wayne. Do you know you can use the classical filters before converting? There are filter plugins available, but for a quick simulation you can just add equal amounts of e.g. Green or Red in each of the shadows, mid-range and highlights of the colour-corrected RGB version. For Yellow, subtract Blue.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 4, 2008 10:47:46 GMT -5
Wayne,
Some minor criticism.
I think the picture would have more impact if you removed the entire left half showing the other anglers. Then you would have your own version of the "Little Mermaid" - holding a fishing rod.
Mickey
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2008 12:21:12 GMT -5
Mickey: Something like this?
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 4, 2008 19:10:40 GMT -5
Yes, Wayne. Exactly like that.
It's amazing what one can do with PhotoShop.
Now can you put an 8lb salmon on the end of her line?
Seriously though. Can you lighten considerably the deep black shadows on the rocks behind her head and the dark black rectangle above them?
I know. I'm a pest.
Mickey
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2008 8:18:36 GMT -5
Mickey:
On my screen those shadows are open. Also, this is from a different image shot the same day. (Notice I didn't say "capture." I never have and never will "capture" an image. I "shoot" photos)
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 5, 2008 14:46:21 GMT -5
"(Notice I didn't say "capture." I never have and never will "capture" an image. I "shoot" photos)" From now on you will be known as "Take No Prisoners Wayne".
They are solid black on my Mac and keep fighting for attention.
It is, nevertheless, a charming picture.
Mickey
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2008 15:22:08 GMT -5
A Mac? There ya go. There's your problem!
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Post by SidW on Jun 5, 2008 20:26:01 GMT -5
... They are solid black on my Mac and keep fighting for attention ... The chances are your monitors are set up diferently for brightness, possibly also for contrast. You can never be sure how your pictures will look on someone else's monitor. Room lighting affects what you see, too.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 6, 2008 3:46:21 GMT -5
Wayne,
"A Mac? There ya go. There's your problem!"
I love my Mac. In over 4 years it has never crashed. Unlike my IBM which crashed if I looked at it the wrong way.
SidW,
I am reluctant to fiddle with my monitor. I am not very computer savy. I might do something that would destroy the entire north eastern North America power grid.
Mickey
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2008 9:04:29 GMT -5
I used a sensor called Eye-One we have at the office to recalibrate my LCD monitor recently after I installed the 256 meg graphics card from my broken home desktop in my work desktop. The LCDs are easier on the eyes but almost impossible to adjust properly without a special sensor and program.
Had a Mac in my office along with a PC. But it seemed like twice a year I had to buy a new version of OS followed by New versions of some very expensive software, in order to read new submissions from customers. When the Mac couldn't handle another new OS upgrade I salvaged the HD and memory and threw it in the dumpster. On the PC I has operated with the same OS and software for more than three years.
The PC has pretty much caught up with MAC on graphics. My concern if I was a Mac owner iwould be that since most of the money is made off IPODS and the Mac professtional area keeps shrinking, there may come a day when the company pulls out of computers entirely.
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Post by PeterW on Jun 6, 2008 17:04:40 GMT -5
I used to work on a Mac, in fact three steadily updated models, all monochrome. But that was when you couldn't get Quark for a PC - a looong time ago. And SCSI, which they all had, was a nice firm connecting system but much slower than USB2. I liked using the MAC OS, but a PC handles all the graphics I need to use very well, and extra hard drives, cards and whatever I need - even the computers themselves - are cheap compared with a Mac.
Got an old I-Mac somewhere. Nice machine, but I don't use it because it can't handle the later OS and it won't take enough memory for what I want.
PeterW
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