Watercolored Walk in the Woods

July 3, 2006 ~ DorothyPhoto ~ Leave a comment

Another montage with only two images this time. Spent a lot of time blending the water ripples into the tree canopy.

Haunted House #4

July 2, 2006 ~ DorothyPhoto ~ Leave a comment

Haunted House #4

Another from my Freeman-Gallant workshop. This was an assignment at the Haunted House. We were supposed to expose for the window. Well knowing that I was shooting raw, I could let some of the highlights blink on the back of my camera. Turns out that the blinking highlights is based on luminosity of Adobe RGB. That is very conservative and highlight details about 1-stop (or more) are stilled captured in the raw file. For this case, I did not mind some solid white in the window but wanted detail in the tree. So when processing raw files in Rawshooter, I could do a small amount of negative exposure compensation, add a bunch of fill light, and reduce the highlight contrast. Voila, I have an exposure in a very trickly lighting situation without using anything except natural light.

If you want to retrieve more highlight details, you would need to process the raw file twice. Once for the highlights and once for the shadows. Then, you can combine them using Photomatix Pro HDR tool or just masking in Photoshop.

Scribbled Reflections

July 2, 2006 ~ DorothyPhoto ~ 3 Comments

Scribbled Reflections

Since my archives are depleted and there are not a lot of new images coming in, I made a montage for (4) images.

Berkeley Rose Garden

July 2, 2006 ~ DorothyPhoto ~ 2 Comments

Berkeley Rose Garden

Today, I went out shooting for the first time in a few weeks. Went with Aphra to the Berkeley Rose Garden. Did not feel very inspired but did take a few rose macro shots.

Dancing #13

June 30, 2006 ~ DorothyPhoto ~ Leave a comment

Dancing #13

Ok, I still have not been out shooting anything yet. So, I return to my Dancing assignment from the Freeman-Gallant workshop. When we left off, I was switching from my focus-optional strategy. This is from the quarry. The rocks were really beautifully colored.

Now, a moment of silence for the demise of my favorite photo tool, Rawshooter Premium. Pixmantec (the maker of Rawshooter) was acquired by Adobe earlier this week. Maybe, I will have to evaluate Capture One.

Grungy or Not?

June 30, 2006May 9, 2016 ~ DorothyPhoto ~ 2 Comments

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I could not decide if I like this grungy or not? Probaby tomorrow, I will not like it at all.

Adrift

June 29, 2006 ~ DorothyPhoto ~ 2 Comments

Adrift

I have not been out shooting for far too long. After trolling the archives for a while, I am going to post this unspired shot. When I returned from my Freeman-Gallant workshop, I was inspired to go out and take new images. However, my other responsibilities have interfered. To my surprise, I went out to Sunol and did not really feel like taking any images. This is the one of those few images.

Unsettled

June 28, 2006 ~ DorothyPhoto ~ 2 Comments

Unsettled

Today, I pulled out my little Canon S1. I have not touched it for several months. I purchased the Canon 5D and my Canon 20D became my purse camera. Well, the little Canon still had a memory card with a few images on it.

At first, I could not remember where I took this image. However, I now remember. I was sitting next to the fountain and noticed the reflections in the water. I felt really stressed and horrible because my job was miserable (I now have a new job). So this picture really does reflect my feelings of stress and worry.