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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!
One of my blocks in the new book by C&T Publishing, Modern Blocks.
So easy to combine with other size star blocks!
Nice clean SP Tunnel Motor 8340 leads an array of power blocking Scott St. in Franklin Park IL. in February 1991.
I'd never seen baby seagulls before, but there were dozens of nesting seagulls around the North Lighthouse. These siblings were both pleading piteously to their Mom(?) for something to eat--sometimes in unison. I shoulda captured it on video, but I'm definitely more of a still photo kinda guy. I watched them for some time, hoping to catch a feeding, but it never came I guess Mom was teaching them patience (HA! As if ANY seagull evidenced even a trace of that trait!). This northern end of the island was quite beautiful, as it's been kept undeveloped (save for the lighthouse) as a wildlife preserve. The other end of the island was plenty beautiful as well, and where I spent the majority of my time. There is where one finds Mohegan Bluffs Beach, photos of which will eventually find their way into my stream.
For her blocks in Bee Unique Bee Knotty Joanna sent us either green or blue fabrics plus some grey and white. She asked for geometric, non-wonky, non-pinwheel blocks and noted that she loved paper-pieced stars.
I love paper piecing so it was an easy choice. This block is from a quilt pattern called Millennium Compass on eQuiltPatterns. I used the two green fabrics that were sent and added in two of my own, each slightly darker than the ones sent.
Part of: Augen Borgen - Borrowing Eyes.
Adventkalender 22.12.2011 Apple of Paradise: DMC-G2 - P1200402 + Selbstportrait: DMC-G2 - P1040334
I fell in love with these crossed canoe blocks. I'm thinking of making a whole quilt out of these, something scrappy maybe?
Here are the 16 finished blocks (12" each). They are yet to be put together (have a nice blue Amy Butler fabric for a sashing).
Sample block in my colours of aqua, yellow and grey. For the 3x6 Sampler Quilt Mini Bee.
Blogged stitchnbits.blogspot.com/2011/07/spiderweb-sample-block-3...
Built: 1893. Architect: Carl Fredrik Ebeling.
The buildings in the block are listed buildings (Swedish: byggnadsminnen). Residential housing in form of a tenant-owners' society (Swedish: Bostadsrättsförening) called Brf Furan.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvarteret_Furan (website in Swedish)
CN 9576 is shoving as CN X524 shoves back to Joffre Yard. Photo taken from a VIA Rail excursion train as part of CN family day at Joffre Yard.
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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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...
Block 1 for the Camelot Quilt. It was so much fun to make! I am really looking forward to starting block 2!
handpieced
Taken with this on 4th October - one of the things I like about using film is the wait for the results !
Processed with CameraBag
Staff House, Manchester University, UK