I think you handled this very well. Tough DR well balanced and halo free..on my monitor.
Jack --- On Wed, 10/7/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO - We're Here! Version IV > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 5:16 PM > > 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. > -- 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.
