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Photo Assignment: Weekend 01/05/08

Fine arts?

Sorry it has been so long posting any thing here it is.
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A pair

Here is a pair of photos; both are the same thing (obviously). One is standard color, the other uses a setting on the camera called "color accent". I haven't played with it much. So far it seems "color accent" likes keeping green and another one, "color swap", leaves blues. I need to play with that quite a bit more. I used it on a number of photos; some with good results and some without.

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Berry Close

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/srab/2173281035/" title="Berry Close by sheridesabeemer, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2030/2173281035_a05d015d6e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Berry Close" /></a>

No Photoshop, I didn't even crop it! (just resized it) :dance
 
Sorry it has been so long posting any thing here it is.

It certainly is close-up, though nowhere near the minimum focusing distance (thank God). The expression on the young girl aboard the sidehack is priceless.
 
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/srab/2173281035/" title="Berry Close by sheridesabeemer, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2030/2173281035_a05d015d6e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Berry Close" /></a>

No Photoshop, I didn't even crop it! (just resized it) :dance

Hi Gail!

The DoF in this shot really adds a sense of 3-D. Those berries POP!
 
The other dark side...

Some really great shots this week, Everyone. I was again a little distracted. I wasn't going to post, but I couldn't let everyone else have all the fun...


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Finally got a few together

So I took some shots. Okay a bunch of them. I learned a few things along the way also. I am having some trouble getting the white balance tweaked in. Here are the 26 photos straight out of the camera - all that I did was run the RAW photos through Lightroom to convert to JPG for upload to smugmug.

So I understand the rules of not photoshopping, so here are the six keepers. But I wanted to improve the output a little more so I did white balance, crop, rotate, tweaks in Lightroom. I kept the file names the same so that they can be compared and "whipped".

I figured out that I need more light, and probably a better background solution.

My two motorcycle keys
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I did not like how close I got to them

Here it is cleaned up some - just cropped and white balanced
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So I did some closeups holding the camera instead of using the tripod
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Here it is a little cleaned up
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A few more keys cleaned up - white balance, crop, rotate.
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So then I wanted to get Write to the point -
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Cleaned up
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Then it got a little skewed
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Cropped a little and WB
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Complete Galleries
Six Tweaked
http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/gallery/4123815

Straight out of camera
http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/gallery/4123575
 
Last one. But it's hard to stop.

Voni
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It certainly is close-up, though nowhere near the minimum focusing distance (thank God). The expression on the young girl aboard the sidehack is priceless.

I think its been photo-shopped!:whistle :laugh

RM

(girl on the the side-hack? where???;) Oh, yeah, I see.....:laugh )
 
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