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A fellow photographer and friend from the UK wanted to learn more about masking in Photoshop, and Zoom to the rescue. I started with one of my shots that never thrilled me, but thought it was a good simple shot to start with. As far as the dime a dozen shots of '55 Chevys go, IMO, it was just OK, and it's color was not my favorite. Kind of a peach color, ergo the title. I showed him the power of the new Object Selection tool in Photoshop, and if any further cleanup is required a few other tools can be used. However, typically I use the Polygonal tool for that. I went on to tell him that if you are selecting the subject (car here) but want to do something with the rest of the image, (the background) and not the subject, you must click Inverse before doing any of that. I told him that if you are going to spray out the background like above, you can pick any color you want, but a color already in the image usually works well, or as in the case here, a complimentary color. Maybe a bit of a stretch here, and being that the cars color is in the red family, the compliment of red is green, and therefore my reasoning for going with a shade of green. So, as I'm working my way through this demo process with him my original feelings about not liking the image started to change, and I actually kind of like it now. I think it's proof as to how, with a little extra play, you can turn a mediocre image into something a little more special. So, the takeaway here is don't throw in the towel on those "so so" images, there just may be hope for them.
The Halema'Uma'U crater as seen from the Jaggar Lookout at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. This was taken in late April, just before the eruption on the Big Island. The park ranger told me that the crater was the most active it had been in two years that evening.
Much different from the ventral view on my first post.
Elk Island National Park. Strathcona County, Alberta.
Photographed while wandering with coolpeeks. The Polygon Gallery, Lower Lonsdale, North Vancouver. May 7, 2022.
The Saar Polygon in Ensdorf, Saarland is a monument commemorating the coal mining industry in Saarland, which ended in June 2012.
Amsterdam - Spaarndammerdijk.
Ventilation towers of the Spaarndammer car tunnel.
Designed by: Tjep.
The stainless steel towers consist of folded surfaces with a pattern that is inspired by leaf veins.
In opdracht van de gemeente Amsterdam heeft Tjep. vier torens ontworpen die de ventilatieopeningen van de nieuwe Spaarndammertunnel vormen. De 6 meter hoge roestvrij stalen torens bestaan uit gevouwen vlakken met een patroon dat is geïnspireerd op bladernerven. (architectenweb.nl)
Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park. The fairly rare water on the salt flats ended up being the biggest attraction on this trip, and with mild temperatures and little wind, it stuck around for over a week. the salt polygon patterns are caused via thermal expansion cracks in the rock salt, which allow salty water from the shallow water table below to seep up via capillary action. As it dries, it leaves raised polygons of salt. They can be an inch or two high, or sometimes 8-10" high!
This was taken with a 40 year old Canon FD lens (with a E to FD Mount): 50mm f/1.8. There is a lot of dust in the lens which only appears with a very small aperture around f/22.
ws 4.4-6.3 cm (1.7-2,4 in)
The Gray Comma is found from Alaska to Newfoundland in the north, south in the Appalahian Mountains to North Carolina, and from Kansas west to Wyoming and Colorado. In Alberta, the Gray Comma occurs throughout forested regions and is usually associated with mixed wood forests. They are sighted frequently along roads and in clearings. (Alberta Butterflies)
Elk Island National Park, Alberta.
Aquest és el campanar de l'antiga catedral de Sent Liser. Aquest estil constructiu és molt caracteristic del romanic del entorn tolosà.
La vila de Sent Líser (Saint Lizier en francès) es troba en un puig sobre el riu Salat, just al nord de St. Girons. Té la particularitat de comptar amb no una, sino DUES ex-catedrals. Aquesta és una de les dues, l'altra es troba al cim del nucli antic, i s'anomena N. D. de la Sède. Una cosa molt complicada de legalisme canonic medieval. Sembla que va tenir un sol bisbe però amb dos capitols catedralicis separats. En fi.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sent_L%C3%ADser
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Lizier
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cath%C3%A9drale_Saint-Lizier_de_Sai...
www.monestirs.cat/monst/annex/fran/migdp/sliser.htm
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A view of the romanesque bell-tower of the former cathedral of St. Lizier. This style of tower is quite usual in the Garonne basin.
Saint Lizier (Sent Líser in occitan) is nice old village above the Salat river. It has the really unusual detail of having TWO former cathedrals. I can't really understand what happened, but it seems that in the middle ages it was the seat of a bishop, but with two cathedrals, and all was abolished during the French Revolution. The other (former) cathedral is known as N. D. de-la-Sède.
Ce joli papillon nous est apparu et nous pensions qu'il avait les ailes brisées, mais non il a les ailes dentelées. Je ne mis connaît pas, mais d'après des connaisseurs, il semble que ce soit un polygone virgule.
Tous les polygones sont difficiles à identifier, en particulier les individus aux ailes usées qui volent au printemps.
One of the most common forms of patterned ground in Arctic regions are ice wedge polygons. In winter the cold causes frozen soil to shrink, and cracks form (similar to drying mud). In spring meltwater seeps down into the cracks. It freezes and expands when it is chilled by the still-frozen soil. The frozen water forms wedges of ice in the soil. The ice wedges tend to increase in size year after year. I found these patterns by chance flying a drone over tundra. It is much harder to observe these polygons from ground level.
Recently, I participated in the Macphun architecture photography contest and submitted this and another picture, which where both showcased on their homepage, but unfortunately I didn't win anything. Some of you might know this picture since I already uploaded it, but for the contest I did a slightly less extreme edit and hence I decided to reupload it. Hope you like it!
PS: Sorry for my absence the last weeks, but since people know that I'm singing and playing the guitar I had a lot to do with practicing songs and singing them at christmas concerts :) Hope that I'll find more time for photography soon.
Polygonia c-album, the comma, is a food generalist butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. The angular notches on the edges of the forewings are characteristic of the genus Polygonia, which is why species in the genus are commonly referred to as anglewing butterflies.
Comma - Polygonia c-album
Harewood House
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