Any photographers in here?

[NVP5White]

great shots

Thanks, I really like the 2nd and 4th images the best. Since I got my remote flash triggers I've been doing a lot of off camera flash stuff. In the second shot I am holding the flash mounted the end of my tripod with my left hand while taking the picture with the right hand.

The 4th picture is with the flash resting on the top of the display for the GE I-16 jet engine, which is also the subject of the last picture. Using the flash combined with a high sync speed (up to 1/500 sec on my D50) allows me to really change the lighting of an image. The display was bathed in indirect sunlight and overhead lighting. Since my sync speed was so high it looks like the flash is the only source of light.

 

[rjmhotrod]

self portrait

Well, my wife took it of me anyways...

After being inspired by the PP of a member on the Canon forums, I wanted to try my hand at some desaturated images. Several adjustments were made, not just saturation. This is the only image I've worked on so far. What do you folks think? Go easy on the teeth; I'm already VERY self-conscious about them.

 

[altspace]

Mmmm...love your work nvp5white.

 

[ipleadthe5th]

Here's a little bit of my work

And my photoshop skills (very basic right now)

5th

 

[NVP5White]

I wanted to try my hand at some desaturated images. Several adjustments were made, not just saturation. This is the only image I've worked on so far. What do you folks think? Go easy on the teeth; I'm already VERY self-conscious about them.

This is a good example of what is possible with desaturation. The fact that this looks like it COULD have come right from the camera means you did a pretty good job. Sometime desat gets out of hand...

A couple of comments: Add one more Levels layer to your workflow. The black point needs to be established and the sky does not quite fade to white. I would also recomend bringing your skin tone back to life a bit. Saturate in some red and maybe a little yellow. The overcast lighting makes your face look a little flat so use a levels layer and darken the image a bit. Mask it off and blacken the areas you want highlighted while leaving the shadows.

These are really pretty small nits, but they keep this desat picture from being really great.

My take:

PS: My monitor is not calibrated so its completely possible I just made your picture look like crap. I can tell a difference in the sky since it now fades to white and your shirt is now black instead of dark gray. And your face, while a little dark, works because of the technique. At least I THINK so...I could be wrong because of my monitor.(dunno)

 

[ChopstickHero]

Bump for pictures I didn't submit for the February Photo Contest:

good composition in this one, nice pic

 

[rjmhotrod]

This is a good example of what is possible with desaturation. The fact that this looks like it COULD have come right from the camera means you did a pretty good job. Sometime desat gets out of hand...

Why, thank you Ed.

A couple of comments: Add one more Levels layer to your workflow. The black point needs to be established and the sky does not quite fade to white. I would also recomend bringing your skin tone back to life a bit. Saturate in some red and maybe a little yellow. The overcast lighting makes your face look a little flat so use a levels layer and darken the image a bit. Mask it off and blacken the areas you want highlighted while leaving the shadows.

Evidently, you know a whole lot more about Photoshop than I do. Perhaps my older version of PS (the original CS) doesn't allow desaturation of individual colors. I was only able to saturate/desaturate the overall levels. It's entirely possible (and very likely) that I just don't know what the heck I'm doing. I did adjust levels to try to get the black back up there. I know what you mean about the skin tone. I look like I'm 1 degree from death.

These are really pretty small nits, but they keep this desat picture from being really great.

Yeah, well, that and the subject. (freak)

PS: My monitor is not calibrated so its completely possible I just made your picture look like crap. I can tell a difference in the sky since it now fades to white and your shirt is now black instead of dark gray. And your face, while a little dark, works because of the technique. At least I THINK so...I could be wrong because of my monitor.(dunno)

I do all my PP on my iBook because it's levels are truer than my older eMac. A calibrated monitor would help heaps.

 

[winty87]

Question guys. Hokay, how do I isolate one specific object in my picture when I'm photoshopping it and make the rest grayscale? I know how to do channel mixer so that wont be a problem. Do I have to create a separate layer for this said object, lasso it and then go back the background and channel mix?

 

[ChopstickHero]

Question guys. Hokay, how do I isolate one specific object in my picture when I'm photoshopping it and make the rest grayscale? I know how to do channel mixer so that wont be a problem. Do I have to create a separate layer for this said object, lasso it and then go back the background and channel mix?

I copy the image layer and put it on top of the existing one. Convert the image layer that is lower to a grayscale (technique is up to you). Then you select the focus area using the polygon lasso tool, then select the inverse of that (to select the surrounding area). Press delete.

 

[jeg0024]

I want photoshop! Damn u guys lol

 

[winty87]

Ok, so i think i got it. my one friend is huge on photoshop so he's walkin me through it.

Yeah, CS2 is sexy. I have 7.0 that I downloaded and I just downloaded CS2

 

[ChopstickHero]

weird, where did my post go?

 

[jeg0024]

Can I get photoshop for free somewhere? D/L or something? Im cheap lol.

 

[winty87]

Can I get photoshop for free somewhere? D/L or something? Im cheap lol.

Limewire is where I got it from, but some of them are sketch and are just zip files with spyware. I luckily got a clean version of CS2 like 4 months ago that I just finally installed today. I have Photoshop 7.0 on CD that I can burn and CS2 as well. But try downloading it from limewire first

 

[jeg0024]

Limewire is where I got it from, but some of them are sketch and are just zip files with spyware. I luckily got a clean version of CS2 like 4 months ago that I just finally installed today. I have Photoshop 7.0 on CD that I can burn and CS2 as well. But try downloading it from limewire first

Alright, I got limewire on the other comp, ill try it tomorrow. Thanks.

 

[winty87]

Here is what your help and my friends help let me create.

 

[jeg0024]

Nice. None of my help tho lol.

 

[ipleadthe5th]

I didn't take these (obviously) but I did photoshop them.

 

[ipleadthe5th]

More of my pics

 

[ZoominMX-5]

74 pages is a lot of pages to go through, but has anyone tried Aperture for their Macs? I'm thinking about getting it. The price is right, and does just about everything i'd want it to.

Any comments on it?