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Cal Trans HQ

Los Angeles, District 7

Downtown LA

This image is not mine, it was taken by SeaMowse and put up on one of the Critque groups where I downloaded it and did some post-processing. Original belongs to SeaMowse who took the picture. This is the original:

www.flickr.com/photos/10016860@N02/9735172811/

I liked SeaMowse's original for composition but there were issues. First the background was dominating and second, the lighting on the cat was somewhat flat. In PP I darkened the background and cloned out the bright lights there. This was pretty fast and sloppy and you can see some of the original background brightness above the cat's head as a halo. Anyway, the next step was to add lighting effects. Here I dup'ed the image and darken it using gamma curves (in GIMP). The right (bright) side of the curve was simply reduced by 20% and then an exponedial curve was made to increase constrast in the middle tones. A layer mask was placed on the original and using a large soft brush I darkened the right side of the face (assumed a light source at 10:00) and darkened along the bottom except the paw and progressive darking of the rear of the cat. The goal was to focus attention on the face. Using smaller brush I dab'ed in darkness in the pockets of the curls. I darkened in some areas under the chin and along the inside left part of the ears as well to help with 3D effect. I cloned out reflections in the eyes. Made the tip of nose a bit more orange and brighter. Finally I adjusted final image using s-curve for gamma and reduced the color sat by about 15% (to match the lower overall luminance) and warmed the image up a bit by increasing the red channel and reducing the blue a bit. I knew the result was stunning (well I had a good image to start with!) but didn't think it would go Explored!

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My garden.

Beverly / Fairfax

LR Cross Processing

This is my favourite cyanotype so far -- I think this one turned out the best -- still wish I could afford a better method for creating the negatives so I could get a greater tonal range -- ah well

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Porteurs du reliquaire de Saint-Antoine en Barbenfosse à la procession

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The famous glass house at Lalbaug, Bangalore. I keep coming back to my night photography. This one shot on a Saturday, 630-730 when this structure is lit up as you see it..above.

Please - no awards, photos, group invites or graphics!

Please do not use this image on a website without explicit permission from me. Thanks.

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On the coastal train ride to Devon

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A gentoo penguin goes through the process of numbering their feathers.

Buy me a coffee.

GXR Mount A12 + PENTACON auto 29mm f2.8

From the sketchbook.

Again, a mirror image sketch.

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Woke up and headed out while it was still dark and cold this morning to watch the sunrise and get out while the world was still quiet. This one snapped after I'd already been out a few hours. So is this my worm?

ODC - Making Tracks

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Mouscedes

On Black, please

My family. From left to right

Madison, Mariah, Mackenzie, John.

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www.instagram.com/domewrong

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.... looking down on the water from a rickety wooden bridge, over a small stream. The water was flowing over a log, and the 'figures' were marching across it in constantly changing forms ....