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Well yeah, this is one block up from Main Street Ventura close to where I do my laundry and about three block away from Ventura High School in a pretty rough neighborhood (not! :-))
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All my public photos are free for personal use
In case your interested here's a sample of my convoluted workflow:
1. +2,0,-2 RAW (sometimes JPEG) files loaded into Photomatix and processed using the detail enhancer.
2. Base Photomatix Settings:
Main:
> Strength - 85 or less
> Saturation - 65
> Light smoothing - High (The further right, the more realistic)
> Luminosity - 0 (adjust based on the picture)
Tabs:
Tone
> White point - 2% (adjust up/down based on picture)
> Black point - .5% (adjust up/down based on picture)
> Gamma - 1.00 (adjust up/down based on picture)
Color
> Temp - 0
> Highlights - 3
> Shadows - 0
Micro
> Contrast - 10
> Smoothing - 15
S/H
> Highlights - 18 (adjust up/down based on picture)
> Shadows - 18
> Clipping - 18
The light smoothing is the most powerful adjustment, so play with that setting first then adjust the others until you get the right look,
If your sky is a dull gray increase the S/H tab, “Highlights” up a bit
If you have to much light “halos” increase your “Luminosity” and the “White Point” settings.
3. Save as a TIFF file.
4. Open in "The Gimp" and re-size (save as____.tiff)
5. Make a layer copy.
6. Do an auto "levels" and see what it does, if it's cool I'll merge it down if not I'll play around with the setting and opacity then merge.
7. Make another layer copy.
8. Use the "local contrast enhance" script at about 50%, then adjust the opacity to fine tune it, then merge it down.
9. Make another layer copy.
10. Use the "vivid color" script and play with the opacity to fine tune it, then merge it down.
11. Save (still as a tiff) and close the picture.
12. Open in Photoshop (I have and old version and only use it to run the Topaz plug-ins)
13. Run the Topaz Adjust plug-in filter and see what the various presets do.............
14. Run the Topaz Denoise filter.
15. Save (still a tiff)
16. Open the original file (unaltered JPEG or RAW) in "The Gimp"
17. Re-size this to match the modified tiff file (don't worry about keeping the aspect ratio)
18. Drag the modified tiff file in as a layer (it will completely hide the unmodified version) then merge it down, this will recover the lost EXIF information.
19. Use the "smart eg sharpen" script at default settings (it makes it own layer copy) then play with the opacity to fine tune it, then merge it down.
20. Do a "save as" as a jpeg, and it's ready for Flickr!
Finished carving the key block for "Garden"! Read more about our plans for this print & see more photos here ~ www.tugboatprintshop.com/woodcut_garden.htm
Now a 18" x 24" full color woodblock print, part of our ongoing LIFE OF LEISURE Series!
Please don't enter this dilapidated building in the Casco Viejo (old town) district of Panama City, Panama. Actually, I'm not sure they are really cinder blocks, but that is sort of what they remind me of.
Part of: Augen Borgen - Borrowing Eyes.
Adventkalender 22.12.2011 Apple of Paradise: DMC-G2 - P1200402 + Selbstportrait: DMC-G2 - P1040334
While walking around Charlestown, I positioned the sun directly behind the Zakim Bridge, and it made the lighting very cool.
Charlestown
Boston, Massachusetts
March 24, 2009
Como parece que nós todas 'piramos' com os bloquinhos, resolvi 'dar uma mãozinha' e procurar na net algumas dicas de blocos beeeeeemm simples!!! Delícia de fazer, é só ter persistência...
*Imagens ret da Net...
That's the owl done, now onto the whale!
blogged - bearpawandbearpaw.blogspot.com/2011/09/do-good-stitches-c...
Location: Kuwait, Bnaider
Camera: Nikon D80
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 46 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Lens: Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX Zoom
Model: Thamir k Al-hashash
Other Details:
Hand held
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these blocks were my Christmas present from Elsie and Roxy. I thought they would be much easier than stones to balance and in one way they are because they have flat surfaces (although some of the planes are very small) but because they are manmade and not organic they don't seem to settle quite in the way stones do. As I was taking this photo I saw that the tenth block was still on the floor from the first tumble! They require mindfulness like stones, but when they fall they don't shock in the way the larger stones do, and also they don't have the potential to break a toe!