Some candids from Westside Nutt Club's Fall Festival, Evansville, IN. This single activity is the annual fundraiser for all charitable, service, and volunteer organizations in the Evansville area.

Not necessarily within my comfort zone - strangers, people and all that.

Thoughts, suggestions appreciated.

Regards,

bob

These are fun!
In the first, seems like she should be showing off a ring, but I suppose its an odd, playful gesture. I love the girls expression as she watches. I think I'd crop some from the top. Not so much that you cut the head of the woman on the right, although she only adds a candid feel and does help with a diagonal to the main subject. But I dont think the height of the image helps and Bus Stop sign might not be needed.
I REALLY like the second. Cant help but chuckle at the Rib Eye sign that almost seems pointing to her. This is a classic image!
Third doesnt work for me, either calorically (a word?) or aesthetically. The toning just seems wrong. The concept is delicious!

You should do more of these!
Scott

more...

They do say "Americana", don't they.

Hard working, playing mid-west folks. Many live in rural communities and farm. Others have migrated to factory work, however that work is gradually going elsewhere, Mexico or off-shore.

This portion of the Ohio River valley is dotted with pharmaceutical and chemical plants so ironically there is an abundance of highly educated engineers and chemical/petrochemical researchers.

About as conservative "Americana" as you will find. Ethnically descendants of middle and east European plus Scandinavian.

Diggin' the toning on #2 and the capture on the "wild woman" (daughter ??)

I still think the second is the best standalone image.
As Karen said, as a series they do nicely illustrate mid-Americana.

Scott

Thanks Kent,

I assume daughter - that day the kids rides all opened at noon, area school holiday. Lots and lots of strollers, pre-k, and elementary school kids running around.

BTW, I think the toning choices are excellent (sans chips)
Scott

Thanks Karen and Scott,

Yes, a cross-section of mid-western Americana.

Agree about #2 although I do like the expression of the daughter-mom on the helicopter ride - must admit that capture was serendipity.

Bob

sbeme wrote:
BTW, I think the toning choices are excellent (sans chips)
Scott


Thanks again Scott,

Does anyone know how to create and save a custom tone preset in SEPro2?

Is the sixth entry at the following URL what you have in mind?

http://www.niksoftware.com/support/usa/entry.php?view=faqs/sep2answers.shtml

The first shot works better for me cropped in tighter on just the two foreground figures because the sign and and scene on the left in the background are distractions and the woman in the background isn't flattered much by the photo due to her expression. I also made a middle slider correction in Levels to pull up the shaded faces...

The white bar and shelf on the right intrude and the background clutter also detracts from the first. A wider aperture would help and perhaps some PP fiddling:

Great re-works AuntiPode, thanks for your time and assistance. Yes, I should have had a "busy" filter mounted

Regarding my question - answer is 'sort of'. I'm curious if the is a way to emulate the split tone sliders in ACR. Best I can find is tweaking the settings in SEP but don't know that the paradigms are compatible.

Thoughts?

Bob

Of course one solution is to drop the image back into ACR at the end of the workflow.

Beats me. At best I'm an SEP dilettante.

Do you know the lady and the girl in the first photo?

no, passing strangers

I'm trying to figure out what would compel you to take that photo.

dmacmillan wrote:
I'm trying to figure out what would compel you to take that photo.

Fair enough.

It is the second image after they noticed me...just girls having fun I guess...plus the reactions, expressions of the girl and second adult.

So it was spontaneous capture of the moment, not contrived.

So I guess the follow on is why did I post it? See reactions, thoughts of others.

Bob