Some photos

[pecunium]

I've played with a few more.

I've got a copy of Nik Color Filters 3.0, for review. The first thing I did with it was more clever than useful.



The desaturation in the center was done with a brush, and the filter set to convert to IR.

You can compare it to the original:



A better use was this one:



Where I had the wrong setting on the camera, (actually, the only way I could have gotten it close would be to have the things set to automatically set the white balance, and I'm leery of that), so the application is more akin to using a color correcting filter when one has the wrong film stock in thne camera.

So I used a skylight filter. I did a little localised correction in the center (on Pat and the horse) and then did a secondary one on everything.


One of the things I like about flickr is that one can plot the photos on a map. That map can be either drawn, or satellite, or a mix of both.

So this photo:



Was taken a couple of years ago, when I was in Ukraine. It's an artillery piece on the entry lawn of the Ukrainian Military Acadamy. When I was trying to plot it to the map I managed to plot it exactly.

In fact, it's presently misplotted by about 10 meters,because the marker was completely hiding it; so if one goes to the map link on the right hand side of the page one can see the satellite image of it, both in place, and in detail




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Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I like the original of the fungus much better -- it's more like the right color for something like that. But the treated one of Pat seems excellent. (Currently, I'm having much too much fun /p/l/a/y/i/n/g/ /i/n/ /t/h/e/ /d/i/r/t/ working in a Community Garden plot to even try to learn to use the new camera, to say nothing of my terror of the Learning Curve of photo-processing software, but I admire (most of) the results of your efforts.)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Photoshop is a pain to learn. LightZone is pretty easy. I don't know about CaptureOne and Lightroom, but I suspect they are more like LightZone.

PS/CS problems relate to it being a platform for graphic arts, so there are a lot of things which are related to creation ab initio. I did have a strange malfunction with the first one, and I agree, the original is better. There's a fad, at present for selective desaturation, so I thought I'd play with it.

That plug-in makes doing that easy, so I'll give it a try when it's going to be a more sublte apllication.

The fix it made of the shot of Pat was great. It's not quite the way it looked (the sky was more overcast, which added to the shade made it original look almost as if I'd used tungten balanced film), but I didn't have to do any real fiddling, once I decided what effect I wanted to use.

[songblaze.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I really like the fungus.

In the desaturated one, it is almost impossible to tell that it is not a flower.

May I use that for my background on my computer?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Sure. It isn't, by the way, a flower, but a fungus of some sort.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

And somehow, in the e-mail message I didn't see that you knew it wasn't a flower.

Sorry.

[songblaze.livejournal.com]

NP, happens to the best of us.

That's actually why I like it - that in the original it's clear that it's a fungus, but in the desaturated version, it's far more difficult to tell that it isn't a flower.

Things that aren't what they seem appeal to me.