Editing and Enhancing your Photograph

I would really like to get the background changed up but but fixing the blown out white shirt the picture looks much better to me. One of those projects that I will get to keep working on.

Here is a picture of my boss Bernice and her husband

The Online Photographer: T.O.P.'s Ten Best Living Photographers List

The Online Photographer: T.O.P.'s Ten Best Living Photographers ListI good list to start exploring. I do not know all these photographers, but I will.

JPG Magazine: Issues: 7

JPG Magazine: Issues: 7 I bought this magazine at Barnes and Noble. I liked it so much I subscribed. You can download the magazine as a PDF here, or you can scroll through the pages by scrolling through the Issue Preview. I enjoyed the photography, many of the photographs represented the kind of photography that I value.

Photography Composition Articles Library

Photography Composition Articles Library There is good information here, although I think that the best composition comes from feeling not thinking.

The River Yatra: Ganga Yamuna

The River Yatra: Ganga Yamuna The photographs on this web site transcend the beautiful. Spend some in depth time exploring. The real thing!

River Yatra

River Yatra Exhibitions A great set of photographs, explore this site for in depth photography of India. Beautiful!

The Online Photographer: Every Picture Tells a Story

The Online Photographer: Every Picture Tells a Story
An excellent description on the selecting photographs for display or presentation.

FLICKR

Here is my FLICKR account URL. This is a neat program to share photos with my friends and family. Some of my friends use RINGO, and the programs seem similar. I do like that this does not take up room on my computer. I also like that I can make it private or public. I look forward to trying this out a bit more.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47355067@N00/?saved=1

Organizing my Photos

I have been organizing my personal and work photos by year and then by event, I did download Picasa and it went through all my pictures. I like my original system, other than I can tag a photo for the massive searches, i do like being able to tag for various things like fire or family. I played with the Picasa program and it has some nice features and maybe I am just stuck in some of my ways as to not like the new, but it was fun to try somrthing new and different, but as for know I think I will stick to my old stand-by.

The Toy Polloy--Smells Fishy!

The Toy Polloy--Smells Fishy! I love the look of these photographs. I have been noticing, when scanning my old negatives, that I really like some of my odd and flawed photographs. I want to try some of these tools.

Dan's improved photo

We took this photo at the White Mountains of me and our car. As you can see, it's too dark because it was taken towards the sun a bit too much. Doesn't really look like a nice, bright sunny day, does it.

With some adjusting of the levels and some dodging of the darker areas of the image (me, the car and the shadows of these two), I was able to bring out the brightness of that day.

Dan's 3 edited photos

This picture was taken 11.11.06 on the White Mountains where a couple of us made a day trip. One of us even took his snowboard...

This is the original:

Turned into B/W by converting the photo into Lab-mode and deleting the A&B-channels. The remaining L-channel was given a small boost by turning up the lightness with curves.

Edited to give it a speedy look with motion blur.
Added dark vignetting around the corners to give it more substance.

This has some more editing done on it.
I used specific filters to give it the snowboarding-style grungy effect.

The Online Photographer: Seen It Before?

The Online Photographer: Seen It Before?
As always from this web site, this is a thought provoking and helpful way to evaluate your photography.

Amazon.com: Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Real World): Books: Bruce Fraser

Amazon.com: Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Real World): Books: Bruce Fraser
If you want to be an expert on sharpening this is the book! Sigh.......Steve

The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers

The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers
If you want to use the photographs in the book to do the exercises you can download them from this URL.
Steve

Dan's quick edit

This is taken of a ditch near where I live. I saw this junk, just dumped there and thought about the symbiosis between the human and the nature...

First, I rotated the picture a few degrees and cropped it. Then I wanted to ephasize the illness of the whole by turning the picture into B&W, except for the rusty barrels and the brown water. I even enhanced the saturation of the barrels to make them stand out more. Mixing B&W with colour is a really easy thing to do and it works powerfully.

How it was done?

I used two layers, the original as the backround layer and a copied layer of the same image. The copied image on the top was turned into B&W just by desaturating it. Then, where the barrels are, I erased the top image with the eraser tool revealing the extra saturated colour image below, thus leaving everything else B&W except for the erased parts.

How you appreciate your digital photography? - Digital Photography Now

How you appreciate your digital photography? - Digital Photography Now
This is an interesting article and provides some context to think about the quality of digital cameras.
Steve

Daniel's Flickr

I got my new Flickr site up and running. Good way to share your photos and give them tags for other people to "accidentally" find your pictures:) It's also fun to see what other photos there are with the same tags as yours. The downside is the limited bandwidth.

How do I get organized?

I downloaded the Picasa and installed it on my computer. It did a nice work scanning my photos. It scanned all my directories and the directories of the program files, too, which created quite a lot of junk. The junk took a while to clean up. It was somewhat easy to clean it up by simply hiding the unwanted folders. The program is a nifty way to categorize your photos without moving the physical location of the actual files. Giving the names of "albums" i.e. tags, you can group the photos accordingly. You can also do some basic picture editing with it, too. Such operations as rotating, cropping, automatically correcting colours and so on are really easy to do with the program. I created some albums, like 'Holidays', 'Fairbanks', 'Finland' and 'CD Covers'. By right-clicking a picture and selecting it to be moved into an album you have created, you can create virtual albums of any sort. You can also submit photos directly to the Blog if you wanted to. It is a handy tool for an easy way to organize your pictures and even share them online. I don't have that many pictures yet that they would need extensive organizing, but it's good to know that with such a free tool I can do it in a very short time. I will keep this program in mind (though there are other similar programs available, too) and give it a thought when I really need to organize my photos.

Photos gone wrong

This is my friend Ruth, her poor chin is my subject blurr

Depth of Field - look at the trailor not the turnouts(I did not use a tripod)

I have over exposed Engine 64 - ISO 1600 with a shutter speed of 1 second

Engine 64 is now under exposed - too dark - ISO 800 with a shutter speed of 1/125

While this picture of Engine 64 is a bit blue I had to really over compensate for the green that comes from the floresent lights