Thanks Rob, Don, Marnie, Frank, P.J., Anne, Paul S., Rick, Dan, & Bruce. A couple of tid-bits:
1) It is a curved window reflection and that is me to the left taking the photo. I've been trying to get a good shot like this for some time because what it does to cars makes me giggle every time. The problem has been that the reflections come out soft and washed out--especially this one because if I remember correctly the window had a whitish tint to it rather than clear glass. In the darkroom as it were I popped the blacks and contrast as much as possible, then did extreme sharpening in Photoshop Elements, but that left the frame very harsh, so while back in Lightroom I added grain, healed quite a few specks of dust and such, and also used the graduated filter in the upper right hand corner to darken. It is an oddly curious--or curiously odd--photo (whichever you prefer :-)), but this year I want to use my PAW to experiment, and I want to shoot for prints, primarily printing on Epson's Velvet Fine Art Paper, and make 4 x 6 prints to post on my study wall for handy review. I've cleared some wall space and will use wall putty to post. 2) I just printed out PAW weeks 1 & 2 in 4 x 6 and I'm happy with the results, especially week one. While week one is also a curious/odd frame, the applied grain looks absolutely stunning and the shadow detail in the bottom of the frame came out really nice on Velvet Fine Art Paper--wonderfully low-key, but still lots of subtle detail--and I've named the third from the top halo, Boris :-)! 3) Also this year, I want to work on consciously making pictures and improving my visualization of the frame as a print. on Velvet Fine Art Paper. I just love this paper and want to explore all its characteristics. I purposely want to focus on just 1 or 2 different papers to really understand them. 4) And I will be doing only monochrome, split toning, black and white. I so love black and white photography and have decided to take the year to immerse myself in all its glory and hopefully I'll have improved my BW skills. I have a good enough book on BW and a good selection of photo books on the masters to learn from. So we'll see how it goes :-). Cheers, Christine On Jan 14, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 January 2013 11:03, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Cheers, Christine >> http://www.caguila.com/paw2013/content/pawweek2sharpened_edited-1_large.html > > Seems so incongruent that the cars aren't from the late 40's, very clever :) > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > 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.
