Activity for User 460 - Lisa Cuchara - photographer67@comcast.net

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18 Oct 19 Comment I love pareidolia! very cool, love the BW to the face.

I just added a fb page weseefaces		 Oct 31st
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20 Oct 19 Comment looks great on the screen. I saw it on your phone, but sometimes bigger is better.
Way cool! 		Oct 31st
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41 Oct 19 Reply Thanks Henry!

I did include details as to how I did it in the description.

Duplicated layer, image settings to make it square, filter, distort, polar coordinates, duplicated layer, flipped, change blend mode to lighten.
Oct 30th
41 Oct 19 Comment cool, what fun. I love doing multiple exposures in camera and in PS.

The colors pop! You just want to stroll on down.

perhaps a softlight blend mode and paint with black on the white bright parts to prevent them from dominating		 Oct 30th
41 Oct 19 Comment I love the concept, but it needs more of a 3D effect

Try Fx

also try
https://www.creative8imaging.com/photoshop-3d-pumpkin-face-effect-pumpkin-image/		 Oct 30th
41 Oct 19 Comment I like how the reflection changed the scene to eliminate the brighter white areas. it is like an optical illusion, where does one end and the other begin.

I like that you included the instructions as I do my reflections differently...
"PS filters used Stylized>Wind>Stagger"		 Oct 30th
41 Oct 19 Comment I love to light paint and light sculpt and draw with light -- very cool
The edited version is less distracting and pops more. There are few "holidays" but it has impact		 Oct 30th
41 Oct 19 Comment I like the story and the placement of the man, looking at the sunset. The composited tents add to the story.

It seems to me that his feet look lost and/or floating...
Oct 30th
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44 Oct 19 Comment I love the scene, wow!
Seems like the underexposed version has the colors popping more for the flowers.
The skies and mts look good, no color cast, which can be hard.

Watch Sean Bagshaw and Ryan Dyer for their ways of sculpting the light around, they can transform a beautiful image like this into paths of lights and darks that make the image sing more...
Oct 30th
44 Oct 19 Comment Wonderful capture of Nubble! The angle and compopsition and blend work well, and the warm tones against the blues make it pop. Well done! Oct 30th
44 Oct 19 Comment wow, great capture -- a city that is on my bucket list for sure!

I would have liked a tad more on the right, seems clipped, and a tad less (or clone out the person in red) on the bottom,

How did your minus 2 exposure look on its own?
It seems like either a blend or a gradient filter or masking in the -2 would have brought out so much more sky detail. One limitation of this DD is that we cannot have access to the RAW files for playing and editing. 		Oct 30th
44 Oct 19 Comment Thank you for the detailed description. That is one of the things I love most about DD, when people add details and what they did (and much better than FB and getting a "like").

The effort paid off, as the blend looks natural and the image does not have a tell tale HDR look. 		Oct 30th
44 Oct 19 Comment I love the car and the angle and the life after humans theme! The blend on the car and the grasses are well done. The more I look at the car and scattered pieces the more I love it.

I think that the sky (bright and HDR-y) and mountains (grainy and color cast) could be re-processed. My first thought was to crop them out, but it seems like that affects the feel on the image. An old car reflecting on the sunset of its life, reminiscing about days when it was in pristine shape... 		Oct 30th
44 Oct 19 Comment sorry, had to laugh, the small thumbnail on the right says original, and I had to look to make sure that I was in the HDr group, not the creative group, as I could not figure out how you transformed THAT original into that image. LOL -- when I re-read I saw "I am including an image of the old farm house to illustrate it's condition."

I like the scene and the windows. The The blend is done well, and there was so much contrast and tonal range, so kudos!

the whole image looks a tad greenish to me and the floor a tad too bright.

I love old houses. Out in WA and ID it is more challenging since everything is posted, unlike in other areas.		 Oct 30th
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63 Oct 19 Comment I love this image, colors, composition, sharpness, texture, lighting, contrast, background! I love the way that the right red leaf is resting gently on the green leaf, like two friends.

To improve -- Perhaps add a soft light blend layer and paint 20% in to get rid of the white reflections on the left leaf.

I am also excited to see you using the Olympus EM1 mark II, I just love that camera! And the 60mm macro lens rocks! It gives life size. I assume in this case that you had it on regular, not on the 1:1 switch.

Make sure that you have installed the camera firmware 3 update, which gives you pretty much a new camera over the firmware 2 -- the focusing is improved, and the changes to and advances in the in-camera Focus stacking (3-15 frames instead of 8 max and the box guide appears around the image). Have you tried the focus stacking yet? You will love it -- for closeoup and macro subjects it is amazing. It is so nice getting the stacked images straight out of camera and not needing to post-process (although for a few subjects focus bracketing with 20-40 shots and post-processing is stil needed).		 Oct 8th
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91 Oct 19 Comment I love the flowers and the petals and the color. The center of the flower is especially wonderful. What fun!

I too love the supercolor. My camera is converted full spectrum and I use that filter 97% of the time. I am still mastering WB, as my image will look like your finished image on the LCD, but in LR/PS it looks weird. I was using RAW + JPG for a tad, because I wanted to get the RAW images to look more like the SOOC JPGs, but now have found that I can use the Olympus workspace (free) and that keeps the WB that I set in-camera, which is wonderful.

I am surprised by the noise in the image, especially at 100 ISO. The yellow intermediate does not seem as noisy. The flower also seems sharper in that version.		 Oct 9th
91 Oct 19 Comment I like the image crop and composition. It does tell your story of human beings encroaching on green and open space. The juxtaposition is striking.

Your conversion method for WB is interesting, so many styles, glad to see details about what we are all doing in-camera and in post-processing.

Personally I would have cloned out the dust-spot and the tree pieces in the UR.		 Oct 9th
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