Heh, all this talk about post processing. <rant>
Seems all the time I have been on this list there have been "grumpy old farts" complaining about the young whippersnappers who don't do "real" photography. Or if not that, how photography isn't real photography anymore. Hmmm, when I started about on PDML about 7 years ago, it was manual vs automatic focus. You can guess which group wasn't doing it right. Oh, and primes vs zooms. Then there was a progression of tripods vs shake reduction, digital vs film, etc. At the last NorCal Meet I saw people shooting their cameras with live view with grids and Godfrey talked to a couple of us about long/night time exposures being improved by noise reduction. And explained how it works (thanks, Godfrey, I didn't know). I wasn't sure I had either, then I came home and checked. (I knew I had live view.) Yup, I can do a grid on live view (nifty, I love that, I am always crooked), and I do have noise reduction. Seems to me the tools just keep getting better. There are always downsides, but for me the upsides far out weight the downsides. </rant> Semi-relevant to this photo. After frank told me my PS skills hoovered, I downloaded some Lightroom presets and replayed with my photo. It is probably still too bland, not that well composed (it was a grab shot), but this comes much closer to what I was going for. I didn't just use a preset and leave it, I also fooled around in Lightroom development side bar. I don't think I've been giving LR enough of a chance. http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/here4.htm This would have taken me hours on my own. I am a happy camper. Comments, okay. Marnie aka Doe :-) --------------------------------------------- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
