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After many emails I got about my photography work, asking what "magic" or extreme post processing/production I do to my photos? Well, as I answered to some of you, I decided to post this, here are some pointers.
I'm not an expert in photo editing, as you can see in the examples.
I believe most of the work should be done with the gear on field, and photo editing should be done genteelly just to bring the most out of the already good photo.
I once read an article by a well-known photographer, he said that a good photo can be made great in Photoshop/dark-room and a bad photo will still be bad no matter how much time you spent in Photoshop/dark-room.
• You need to be an expert in operating your photo gear.
This is the most important matter in getting good photos, but I guess you already
know that…
• I shoot only RAW, and fix exposure and WB with the manufacturer software (Canon
= Digital Photo Professional)
• In Photoshop I will Crop the image if necessary (no more than 40% out)
• Straighten/level the photo.
• Usually will do "auto contrast" or add manual contrast.
• In some cases will enhance or reduce color saturation (in some cases "auto
contrast" will burst color saturation to much)
• If "auto contrast" or manual contrast will not bring the photo to my
satisfying look I will play a bit with the curves tool, very powerful tool but use it wise
as it can ruin your photo and make it look like S**t ;-)
• I do occasionally use some plug-ins that simulate Films to give the photo a more
realistic look, or do some contrast/color fix refines, there are many free in the internet.
• I do not sharpen and reduce noise on the full size file, only on the 800X533 web file
or full size to be printed.
• In very extreme cases of bad exposure and colors I will try HDR, I've had a few
successes with HDR, but most of them came out good only on landscapes photos,
not aviation.
That’s about it, I know there are many procedure and tricks I should learn in Photoshop to get even more of the photos, but for now this works for me.
If you have any question or want to share some tricks or tips in editing with all, feel free.
xnir
Proof of concept for another kind of mosaic involving 2 kinds of tiles, randomly shuffled.
I first read about this years ago, in a column or book by Martin Gardner, A.K. Dewdney, Douglas Hofstadter or Clifford Pickover. Or maybe somewhere else, but probably one of those four... My idols. :)
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...of putting the house back together.
Things are moving along slowly at the house, but they are moving.
EVERYTHING has been removed from the house to be cleaned, except for a few oversized pieces of bedroom furniture that would have had to go out a window and be lowered, in order to remove them from the house (the way they came in years ago.....we have very narrow butterfly steps...only small pieces of furniture can be carried up the stairs.)
Those pieces were cleaned on site. The inside of the house has now been "de-sooted"! .
Larry has a meeting on Monday with the carpenter, plumber and electrician and hopefully he'll find out when they can start the priming and painting .
I want these people to start doing their thing!!!
Meanwhile, Larry has decided there's no reason he can't put in the new kitchen ceiling.
This is one project I'm glad to get done.
If you remember, Larry replaced the ceiling not too long ago.
He put in the drop ceiling tile system.
You can choose from a large variety of tile patterns.
The first time around I saw a pattern that looked and was described as beadboard.
I thought it was exactly what I wanted for my farmhouse kitchen ceiling.
Unfortunately, sometimes things look different in person.
After Larry installed it, we were rather disappointed.
It didn't look AT ALL as I had imagined it would look. Instead of beadboard, it looked like the inside of a corrugated shipping container.
Larry even volunteered to just scrap the tiles and order new ones if I wanted.
In the end I decided to just live with it for awhile.
Time's up!
I'm liking my choice this time 100%!
It's not even done yet, but I am liking this ceiling 100% better!!
Just the first of about 100 projects Larry will probably be tackling these next couple of months.!
Members of the 23rd Component Maintenance Squadron Propulsion Flight perform maintenance on a TF-34 engine July 27, 2015, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The 23rd CMS supplies the 74th and 75th Fighter Squadrons with TF-34s in support of Moody AFB’s A-10C Thunderbolt IIs. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Greg Nash)