not my best PhoSho-Smearing,

but maybe I'll give it another try someday

anyway good enough ...for now

Imported photo into Lightroom2.

Adjusted the exposure to make it lighter.

Used a graduation adjustment on the sky to bring out the detail in the clouds.

Used adjustment brush to add clarity to the clouds.

I reduced the luminance of the blue to darken the sky.

Finally took it into photoshop and used noise ninja on the sky.

Time taken: 15mins

I went to town on this in DxO Optics Pro 4 and spent hours on it. I applied the Fuji Velvia 50 color profile which got the colors perfect, leveled the shot, and played with the lighting correction controls to find the right balance of contrast (which I like a lot of) and shadow detail on the beach. If I had to do this one over again, I'd go back to the original JPEG and maybe tone down the colors just a tad, and also try to get a little more shadow detail on the beach. You might see some JPEG compression artifacts and even a little posterization in the sky, but the original file looks great and can easily be printed as big as you want. Nikon DSLRs tend to have very very good JPEG outputs. My Canon DSLR doesn't spit out quite as good JPEGs and can tend to have posterization effects in the sky shots like these in the darker areas so I'd have wanted to shoot this one in RAW on a Canon.

Tulips, twine, teapot

gradient gels. shot of mount nemo

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Irving Paul Pereira Photography

O2 + 4 e- + 2 H2O → 4 OH-

Postprocessed.

Experimenting with a "Lomo effect" in post-processing, as I describe on my website.

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This is not my image but one I photoshopped for the PostProcess group -see the original image and thread here:

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The original image is by Photographer Jerry Lee.

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Portrait Photography

Tried a combination of noise reduction, sharpening and cross colouring tools on old footage.

view 100% to get a clue of the noise reduction

Goofing around with pp.

Just a sample of some post processing.

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butterfly got scared when i stopped to take this picture

she thought i would fall in

i did fall....

in love with this view

The shot was taken at a waterbody near Kanakpura Road, Bangalore. There were some distracting branches which were digitally cloned out.

IMG_9733

i think that's the pose that they were trying to accomplish.

The Sun shining from the left through a crystal onto a rough plaster wall.

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