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I've posted these before, but had the opportunity to post process using Adobe Lightroom 5. I really like the outcome of both. Please- critique. I am always open to learn new teqniques!
Statue of Sir Thomas Jackson and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building at Central (Post-Processed)
Original Photo Here
Original photo by +graemetric-.
Edited for PostProcess group. See this thread for other people's interpretations of the same image.
This is my attempt at creating the effect from the hipstamatic iPhone app. Let me know what you think
台北單車臨界量 | Critical Mass Taipei
台灣城市單車聯盟/潘建儒攝影
2014年4月19日
台灣，台北
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Taiwan Urban Bicycle Alliance/funkyruru
April 19th, 2014
Taipei, Taiwan
w/b 2/3 - The picture is an old warehouse by the docks in Ramsey, Isle of Man. I really liked the battered look of the building when I was there, and was disappointed with the original shot (see comments as usual).
This one took quite a bit of time for quite a subtle effect, but I'm quite pleased with the result...:
- Used the Perspective tool to add width to the top of the building
- Used the pinch and whirl tool to correct the resulting buldge
- Used the scale tool to give some hight back (it had started to look a bit chubby!)
- Adjusted the levels and saturation to bring the colours out and add some contrast
- Added a new layer with the sky on (from the same day to keep the lighting as accurate as possible)
- Selected out the blown-out sky and turned the inverse into a mask
- Tweaked the edges of the mask (this is the bit that took the time) using the airbrush to try and make it look as natural as possible
- Tweaked the colour balance to remove some of the blue cast (still visible on the white building the the right)
- Sharpened using the un-sharp mask filter
- Cropped to remove some of the distractions left and right.
Phew!
This is the rear end of one of the many species of duck that can be found in Central Park. While many ducks are content to flip upside-down and forage for food while keeping their rear ends raised above the water, this species of duck would fully dive and surface some distance away from its starting point. This made tracking it nearly impossible.
I was lucky when it resurfaced relatively near to my location, yet it dove again very quickly. I thought I'd missed it entirely, but was pleased by this end result. The ripples in the water created by the duck are also quite pleasing. Technically this scene can be attributed to the lens' extremely quick autofocus performance (wave motors are superb) and the high shutter speed (1/2000).
Shot with an E-520 and Sigma "Bigma" 50-500mm f/4.0-6.3 APO DG HSM lens with lens hood mounted. This was shot at 500mm (1000mm in 35mm film terms), hand-held and braced against a railing. Image stabilization may have been disabled for this shot (I can't remember). No cropping has been performed to the picture, although it has been straightened by 3.7˚. Aperture was locked at f/8 in order to afford near-maximum sharpness with the lens; ISO was locked at 1600 to keep shutter speeds up (sunlight shone through around this point and dramatically increased the speed). Some adjustments were made to the image in Apple Aperture 2, and finally the image was scrubbed with Noise Ninja to remove some noise (although it arguably was unnecessary).
'War' a 1906 sculpture by Bertram Mackennal (cast in bronze) inspired by the Roman goddess of war, Bellona.
She stands, in the sculpture gardens of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, beside The Lone Pine Tree, grown from a pine cone collected at Galipoli (at the time of the Battle of Gallipolli) by a young soldier who's brother died in the battle. He sent a pine cone home to his mother and she saved it for over a decade before planting the seeds from the cone. Two trees grew from the seeds and she gave one of them to the Australian War Memorial. It is awesome...
Heh. For a town full of microbrews, we sure do love our Pabst Blue Ribbon:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pabst_Brewing_Company#Pabst_Blue_Ri...
The beer is primarily known today as the choice beverage of the counter-culture. In 2002, after years of decline, sales of PBR skyrocketed in areas like Portland, Oregon, much to the confusion of company heads. As it turned out, its low price and gritty, urban image appealed to the city's thriving indie and hipster scenes, resuscitating the brand and lending it a great deal of trendy cachet. Despite their website featuring art competitions and photos of young people dressed in alternative fashions, Pabst has chosen not to fully embrace the counter-cultural label or appeal to it arguably because the very same "authenticity" that made it popular would be challenged by over-marketing. Instead, the company has opted for subtlety, finding clever ways to target its growing niche through the surreptitious sponsorship of indie music concerts, local businesses, dive bars, and radio programming such as NPR's All Things Considered. These techniques have proven effective and have been rewarded with remarkable growth in sales- the production of PBR has more than doubled since its revival in the early 2000's. Pabst's success is seen by some analysts as a model for advertising to a new generation of media-savvy, anti-consumerist youth culture.[7][8]