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Fri, 2007-10-05 09:30 — tfmk

Please take a look at what I've uploaded here.

 http://picasaweb.google.com/tfmktm/Photography

I have many more, but these have been cropped and cleaned up a bit. You'll see that some are quite old. These were taken with several different digital cameras over the ages.

I'll see if I can get a kitchen photo up soon. :)

Cheers!

Keri


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Fri, 2007-10-05 14:56 — tkpowell

Some really nice images.

Some really nice images. Here are my favorites with some post processing adjustments. http://www.tkpowell.com/wetphoto/keri.htm FWIW I always do some adjustments on every photo. In Photoshop, the Image - Adust-Shadow/Highlight function generally improves the image. Thanks to Chuck Hartshorn for pointing this out. Using this on the apline shot with road crossing in the middle deepens the darker parts of the clouds. The start of the desert race is cool. I guess what I'd really like to see is nothing but the bikes....just a screaming heard of crazy bikers in a cloud of dust. Maybe standing right at the edge of track would work. RE: the sunset shot. A non horizontal horizon always bothers me and I have to adjust at least 50% of my shots because they're off. In photoshop you can do the following ... In layers, duplicate the layer; turn on the grid lines (View - Show grid); and finally Edit - transform - rotate Then flaten the image under the layers function. --Terry
Fri, 2007-10-05 15:27 — tfmk

Thanks Terry!

I'll have to play with the shadow/highlight function.

Re: desert race. The best shot would have been right next to the course, but it was CRAZY down there. Plus I had Toby and Olivia with me. TMSAISTI! :)

 I didn't even notice that the ocean horizon wasn't horizontal. I'll watch for that next time as well.

I'm loving this forum!


Sat, 2007-10-06 00:50 — Michael

Keep those horizons level.

Time for yet another opinion -

Once you've leveled the horizon - tighten up the cropping. On the motoX photo in particular you've got a large amount of sky, you might want to put the emphasis on the racers by cutting it down some from what's there.

Noise automagically reduced using one-step in PSP XI

tightened crop (I use freeform crop sizes) It's on the verge of pixelizing beyond usability but semi-ok for web use. I wouldn't print it like this though.

slight increase (+4) in saturation to compensate for wee bit of over-exposure

very gentle (+3) tweak to contrast

 


Sun, 2007-10-07 10:24 — keith

Great eye!

I really like most of the compositions. I'm especially fond of the family and state fair images, as well as the image of the passageway with the stair shadow.

I am hard pressed to offer a true critique, except perhaps that I might like to see greater symmetry in some the architectural shots. For example in the aformentioned passageway photo, try to frame it so that the sky goes right up the middle of the image as opposed to being slightly skewed to the left. I think symmetry would also benefit the image of the arched passageways. Overall though this is a minor point, I am really impressed by your shots!


Sun, 2007-10-07 17:35 — tfmk

Like this?

So I've tried a couple of the techniques you all listed here to try to clean up the arches and the stair shadow image. I posted them next to the "original" shots for comparison. Please let me know if you think I'm getting closer, or if I need to start again.

Smile

http://picasaweb.google.com/tfmktm/Photography

Thanks again for all of the great feedback! I'm so glad this is a forum so that finding this info later will be somewhat easy.

Cheers!

Keri


Mon, 2007-10-08 09:14 — Michael

Very nice indeed

Keri,

You have some terrific work posted. The edited versions are even better.

Your eye is capturing some very artistic images, your editing and camera skills are certainly of a very high level. I'm impressed.

Great job!

Michael 


Mon, 2007-10-08 12:47 — keith

The cropping definitely

The cropping definitely seems to improve the stair shadow shot, although with the arched passageway shot the cropping seems to exacerbate the skewed horizon.

 

But I am a Libra so perhaps I am overly obsessive about balance and symmetry Sealed


Mon, 2007-10-08 14:44 — tfmk

arched passageway

You're right. Send me back to NYC so I can take the shot again! Smile