Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-04 Thread Larry Colen
On Sep 3, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: Isn't there a way to adjust the color balance of shadows in lightroom? Well, I could use brushes and so on, but it is: 1. Laborsome 2. Imprecise 3. Ultimately I don't have any experience with that. It turns out that it is done via an

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-04 Thread Bruce Walker
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/3/2012 5:00 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: Boris, you can do a hell of a lot with Lr gradients, adjustment brushes, etc. You are much less limited than you may think. Just requires the time to play with these tools. I

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-03 Thread Jostein Øksne
- Original Message - From: Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com Other than that, I can only criticise that there are two women in the picture that tends to draw my eye away from the composition... :-) Jostein Hmmm, they are walking into you, as a matter of fact :-). You know, it won't

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-03 Thread Bruce Walker
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to play with the white balance quite a bit. The issue here is that as long as I try to preserve and emphasize the light on the foreground, given the way the scene was captured (sensor and all) I am rather limited

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-03 Thread Bruce Walker
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: - Original Message - From: Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com Other than that, I can only criticise that there are two women in the picture that tends to draw my eye away from the composition... :-) Jostein Hmmm,

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-03 Thread Larry Colen
On Sep 2, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: On 8/31/2012 8:29 AM, Larry Colen wrote: I concur. Try setting the white balance on one of the white cars in the background. That'll also make the foreground look more like sunset lighting. Sorry but no guitar. Interesting turn of

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-03 Thread Boris Liberman
On 9/3/2012 8:14 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Interesting turn of phrase. I've always heard it as close but no cigar, with the understanding that if you won at the carnival the prize was a cigar. Gee, nothing interesting here. I just made a mistake. Isn't there a way to adjust the color balance

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-03 Thread Boris Liberman
On 9/3/2012 9:45 AM, Jostein Øksne wrote: Hmmm, they are walking into you, as a matter of fact :-). Stupid mistake on my part - not into you but rather into the frame... You know, it won't be long before I can count myself lucky if I still remember _why_ my glance is drawn that way. So I

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-03 Thread Boris Liberman
On 9/3/2012 4:50 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: Kill me before I reach that point! :-) Request denied. :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-03 Thread Boris Liberman
On 9/3/2012 5:00 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: Boris, you can do a hell of a lot with Lr gradients, adjustment brushes, etc. You are much less limited than you may think. Just requires the time to play with these tools. I know. I use gradients very often to correct exposure locally (usually towards

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-03 Thread Boris Liberman
On 9/3/2012 5:00 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: Boris, you can do a hell of a lot with Lr gradients, adjustment brushes, etc. You are much less limited than you may think. Just requires the time to play with these tools. Correction! Silly (or stupid - you choose) me. I just noticed that in the

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-02 Thread Boris Liberman
On 8/31/2012 8:26 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote: Nice composition and foreground colour, but I think the blue cast background is very wrong. Chris Thanks, Chris. Not to sound defensive or anything, I saw the background and did not find the color cast objectionable... But now that you and others

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-02 Thread Boris Liberman
On 8/31/2012 8:29 AM, Larry Colen wrote: I concur. Try setting the white balance on one of the white cars in the background. That'll also make the foreground look more like sunset lighting. Sorry but no guitar. The whole picture becomes impossibly yellowish. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-02 Thread Boris Liberman
On 8/31/2012 10:03 AM, Jostein Øksne wrote: This looks like morning light. I find it very difficult to use WB to balance the sunlight against the shadows in morning light. It has a certain peachy quality to it which is easily lost with the WB tool. :-( Instead, I set the WB to render the sunlit

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-02 Thread Boris Liberman
On 8/31/2012 3:47 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Boris, Like the colors and light. Yes, it is a bit blue. Where is the golden morning light? I like the girls where they are, coming into the scene and comfortably placed in the open under the tree branch on the right. Regards, Bob S. Thanks, Bob. As

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-02 Thread Boris Liberman
On 8/31/2012 4:28 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: I like the colour: the warmth of the sun foreground, the coolness of the shaded street in background. But I think that the cool background is overexposed. The brightness of that area is out of proportion. Pleasant image overall. Thanks, Bruce! --

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-02 Thread Boris Liberman
On 8/31/2012 8:26 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Serenity abounds there. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola Thanks, Dan! That was one of the ideas behind this image - quiet city park afternoon beneath the old trees. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-09-02 Thread Boris Liberman
On 9/2/2012 5:30 AM, Mark C wrote: Fabulous shot, Boris. You have two big trees, two benches, two pedestrians,two long shadows running down the road and a great background of the row of bikes with the front wheels just echoing one after another. It's like you found the hidden order within an

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-08-31 Thread Jostein Øksne
This looks like morning light. I find it very difficult to use WB to balance the sunlight against the shadows in morning light. It has a certain peachy quality to it which is easily lost with the WB tool. :-( Instead, I set the WB to render the sunlit parts as I want them, and then adjust the

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-08-31 Thread Bob Sullivan
Boris, Like the colors and light. Yes, it is a bit blue. Where is the golden morning light? I like the girls where they are, coming into the scene and comfortably placed in the open under the tree branch on the right. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Boris Liberman

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-08-31 Thread Bruce Walker
I like the colour: the warmth of the sun foreground, the coolness of the shaded street in background. But I think that the cool background is overexposed. The brightness of that area is out of proportion. Pleasant image overall. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-08-31 Thread John Sessoms
I'd probably use the White Balance eye-dropper tool to sample several areas of the asphalt paving. That frequently makes for a good neutral grey. From: Jostein ?ksne This looks like morning light. I find it very difficult to use WB to balance the sunlight against the shadows in morning light.

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-08-31 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Serenity abounds there. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I find my interest in photographer sparkled again - with Ricoh GXR A50 module I find myself often looking specifically for light

Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-08-30 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! I find my interest in photographer sparkled again - with Ricoh GXR A50 module I find myself often looking specifically for light and color... Here is an attempt: http://pentax-ways.blogspot.co.il/2012/08/peso-2012-35-etude.html Be brutal and honest, as always. Cheers! Boris -- PDML

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-08-30 Thread Chris Mitchell
On 31 August 2012 05:33, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I find my interest in photographer sparkled again - with Ricoh GXR A50 module I find myself often looking specifically for light and color... Here is an attempt:

Re: Boris PESO #35 - Etude

2012-08-30 Thread Larry Colen
On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Chris Mitchell wrote: On 31 August 2012 05:33, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I find my interest in photographer sparkled again - with Ricoh GXR A50 module I find myself often looking specifically for light and color... Here is an attempt: