Activity for User 774 - Connie Reinhart - bcrein@ptd.net

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12 Jan 18 Comment To correct that blue line around the bright edge of the moon: open in Camera Raw. Click on "Lens Correction." Under the "Color" tab, choose "remove Chromatic Aberrations." This is best done on the original raw file, but it worked pretty good here. Jan 16th
12 Jan 18 Comment Thank you all for your comments. Here's a new version taking your advice. It is cropped to just the "mouth" area. I couldn't clone that ice chunk away without being obvious, so I used NIK Viveza to darken it. Then, because I can't resist having a little fun, I added a smoke plume (couldn't find flames that would work). Jan 16th
12 Jan 18 Reply An observation on levels in Photo Shop: if you darken up the midtones just slightly (move the slider right, from 1.00 to no more than 0.8) it tends to enrich both color and contrast. That said, people have very different opinions on color and contrast. A friend loves bright colors and pushes every picture to the limit. He thinks they are beautiful; I think they are over processed. This is your picture, Walter. Make it the way you want. Jan 6th
12 Jan 18 Reply OK. The image of the house is smaller, thus fitting more comfortably inside the globe. You did something in the southern hemisphere of the globe that looks like soft reflections in a snowy front yard. Very nice. Jan 6th
12 Jan 18 Reply Yes, a closer crop would indeed make the icicles look more like teeth. But I left it in because the grill is covered with thick ice. One would think that the heat of the engine would have prevented that. More evidence of how foolish we were to venture out. Jan 6th
12 Jan 18 Comment Very creative, David. Yes, I saw the corners of the rectangle immediately. The dark grey background is better than white would have been. Can't decide if I like the snow flake streaks or the clear snowflakes. Hmmm. I just gave away a nice glass brick. Should have kept it. Jan 5th
12 Jan 18 Comment Nice pairing to tell a story. The snow in the first picture is beautifully smooth, the lighting excellent. We are quite familiar with the consequences of snow because we have had snow on the ground since Christmas Eve. Jan 5th
12 Jan 18 Comment We have been told that glacier ice is so dense that only blue light reflects back. Is that so? Good exposure, composition, DOF, and exposure. Jan 5th
12 Jan 18 Comment Oh, Walter, I envy your winter weather! We have had about 2 weeks of below freezing weather, with most nights down in the single digits. Brrrr! Great composition with the path leading to the gazebo. Do you have NIK filters? I often use the Color Effects to further polarize the sky. But that is personal preference. Jan 5th
12 Jan 18 Comment An old exposure guideline is "sunny 16 and moon 11." That pretty much says that the moon is a lot brighter than we think. Your exposure is perfect. My longest lens is 300 mm, and the moon is still very small in the frame. Does another 100 mm make that much difference? We had a big orange moon the last few nights that looked like a basketball in the sky. Did you have that too? Jan 5th
12 Jan 18 Comment Very well done. Yes, there are ways to blur the background in Photo Shop, but they often do look fake. This is fine the way it is. The frame with the shading is much better than a straight color. I agree with David that the snow detail is blown out. But the dark underneath of the blossom adds depth and molding to the flower. Jan 5th
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