Not to worry--the consensus sways your way :-). Always good to get frank feedback! Cheers, Christine
On Jan 8, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Sorry, Christine, but this one just isn't working for me. I feel that > the three subjects are fighting for dominance, and the strong white > vignette effect seems inappropriate. Might work better if, for > example, the cookie jar was front-center and the other objects were > OOF in the background. > But then I'm rotten at still-life composition yet. I need to study > more painters. So take my ramblings with a shaker of salt. :-) > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Everyone: While making some chocolate chip cookies tonight, I was >> thinking about all I've recently read about black and white rendering, and I >> kept staring at my cookie jar (named Minna) because it's yellow with light >> blues and greens and reds and browns, and I thought maybe a photograph was >> in order to play with the targeted black and white mixer sliders in >> Lightroom. Shooting TAV, wide open, and at shutter speed 500 (and EV +1.0), >> this frame was shot at ISO 25,600. Can you believe it!?! Noise reduction >> for both luminance and color was 100. There were some small blown >> highlights that I removed with the healing tool. So I had myself some >> rendering play. Cheers, Christine >> >> >> http://aguilapaw.posterous.com/ > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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.
