was in Singapore, China and Alamty, Kz. My layovers are usually short so I must accept the weather as it is. It rained most everywhere! Anyway any C7C is welcome...robert
Thank you for your nice comments Bee. I shot about 500 pics on this 14 day trip and wanted to share a few. I just used Picasa to go B&W and really didn't do much editing. I welcome all C&C thanks, robert
Hi Robert,
I know this is a small sampling, but you will often get more comments if you link together 2-3 related images for C and C. You can always start a new post the following day.
Here's my take:
1. A bit flat. Through a window? Doesnt do much for me.
2. Interesting subject. Nice colors, shapes. You could crop or clone out the sliver of a lamp far left.
3. Nice crisp, contraty BW. Wish you had a tad more on the bottom: you cut off some toes.
4. Nice angles. Good in BW. Like the compositon.
5. Another nice composition. I wish I could see this scene from a bit lower down or off to a side, but you only get some opportunities.
6. Interesting birds. A bit of distracting haze and reflections, esp by the upper bird.
7. Interesting scene. A challenge to find an ideal crop, since you have to chop some birds. Upper right corner bothers me and I'd crop that out.
Scott
Thanks Scott. Actually the first shot was from under a gazebo because of the down pour and even though I wish I could have eliminatd the rain falling off the roof the haze is nothing but a downpour with the lady standing under the umbrella. The snow scene was from a bridge and early evening as the light was going quickly. Thanks again, robert
Scott, even though I keep thinking there's something in #1 with the lone woman in the rain even my wife said it left her flat. Maybe I should just forget it!!
regards, robert
That's what I was looking for but never went beyond Picasa. I need to replace my ver. of Elements or move on to something else. When I was standing under that shelter that woman just stopped when the downpour came and she looked so isolated and alone almost an Eleanor Ridgy moment that I knew something could be done to portray that feeling. Also for this whole trip I was equipped with only my 17-85 f4.5 IS since my new 55-250IS was delivered home after I left, boy could I have used it.
Of course the $650/800 lb gorilla of processing is Photoshop, now up to CS4. I have CS and use it occassionally, when I really need to do very detailed adjustments. But I am enormously pleased with what I can do in Lightroom alone. I use LR for about 90% of the images I process.
In the image above, I increased the exposure (!), moved the black point (darkening the image, adding contrast), applied a contrast bump with a curves adjustment, slightly adjusted the saturation, clarity (mid-tone contrast), added a bit of subtle vignetting.
Scott
