Marnie, if you hadn't told us otherwise, I'd have assumed that it was a scan of an old, faded photo.
Your accident has created something really good. Only thing I'd do maybe is crop out the white area on the right. Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: 12 October 2009 04:32 > To: [email protected] > Subject: PESO - Great Grandpa's Store > > Hmmm, long story, I'll try to shorten it. > > The two buildings on the end right are closed and abandoned and have > been > for some time. The store on the left end (with a bar) is still open. It > is > a lot newer that than the others (relatively speaking). > > This is a very, very small town (basically five buildings) that is > verging > on being a ghost town. The Emporium & Bar and the Post Office (not > shown) > struggle to keep going. It is in Northern Northern California. > > I stopped by at the end of my Oregon/Washington trip, in the valley > where > my father grew up, and again took some photos. I have shown a few > before on > list. > > The middle building is my great grandfather's store. He and my other > great > grandfather both came to CA for the Gold Rush. Neither made any money > from > finding gold, but one ended up having a very successful cattle ranch, > and > this one ended up opening the first chain stores in Northern > California > (general stores). > > I, oops, accidentally, took a whole digital "roll" overexposed. I > thought > I had it set on AV and the dial had been pushed to manual. (That won't > happen again, now I will check every time.) > > Using Lightroom and suggestions from a new Lightroom book I got, I was > actually able to recover a couple. > > The rest had interesting effects. I sort of like this one. > > Certainly good enough for the "cover" of a PDF I am doing on my family > history (for family members). > > http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/store.htm > > Tell me if you agree. > > (I've thought about taking the foliage out from under the tree, but > think > that might not be an improvement. I've also thought about adding > vignetting, ditto, might not improve it.) > > 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.
