Vero

Used a texture (crumpled paper bag) and after I applied it I made a mask and using the brush tool I subtracted the texture effect from the lifeguard station and people, added a warming photo filter (cs6), subtracted most blue and cyan for effect,












Wabasso Beach House













Sebastian















used Topaz to soften portrait and cropped for effect.

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Edited: 06/17/2012 at 05:26 PM by carcar79

Nice set as always. I post process more than I used too,  but, still stuck in "take it, don't make it" mode.

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  "Even if your on the right track, you'll get run over by a train if you just sit there" Will Rogers....I believe

 

"Bad things only happen when GOOD people do nothing"

 

  "EVERYDAY is.......Christmas"

The best example of amateur vs professional photog that I can think of is Hustler vs Playboy.
Anytime you want to look at some "Super-retouched" photography...pick up a National Geo. I read an article a few years ago in NG about NG as how in the old days (film) they would shoot perhaps 20-30 rolls of film and then mail it back to the darkroom at NG for processing in prep for the upcoming issue...and that now they set up a little umbrella-like satelite and shoot to the NG HQ in seconds. This was of course an example of a guy shooting out in the field where he didn't have internet access.
Most post editing is done to make up for mistakes in the field or short-comings of the camera....ie...you take a shot of the bride and groom leaving the reception and you get the shot and at home realize that the giant red catering truck has thrown a color cast of bright red on to the whole bridal party...you don't sit with the bride and try to explain how you didn't want it to happen,you didn't see the truck,etc, etc... or you can post edit it out and make the picture better and save the day. After you get enough experience at "saving the day" you'll realize that ALL of the pix you ever took need some kind of editing. I know mine do.


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Found this quote on-line and thought I couldn't have said it better myself....


I often see photographers boasting about a shot taken SOOC -- straight out of the camera. Raw files are not sharpened nor is contrast adjusted in the camera, so to post a raw file SOOC is missing the point. It's ALL about post-processing, folks. I've heard people grumble at photo competitions about how all the winning pictures are "Photoshopped" and how there should be a contest category for "pure" photographs.

But it's always been about post-processing. The masters of the past didn't take their roll of film to the corner drug store to get it developed. It was all about your dark room technique.

This is the idea behind the saying, "Cameras don't take photographs, photographers do."

Of course, if you're shooting jpeg (and I can think of few reasons to do that) you can post SOOC, but why handicap yourself? Why throw pixels away that can lend themselves in post-processing to an image that says more accurately what you want it to?

I'm a painter who uses photographic images to create digital images. I used to paint in egg tempera and that experience influences everything I do.

Glen B. Seattle


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Photoshop is for babies

 

Photo credit for the island to an unknown contributor to google image search.  The baby is mine!

 

 

 

Your Vero pic looks like vacation on the moon, diggin` it!!

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I've decided to accept the fact - I'll always be a big kid!

I'm listening, and learning

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  "Even if your on the right track, you'll get run over by a train if you just sit there" Will Rogers....I believe

 

"Bad things only happen when GOOD people do nothing"

 

  "EVERYDAY is.......Christmas"

honestly i hate photoshop filters when it comes to just basic photography, i can understand using it for an ad, magazine, or something that will have multilayers, but but using them just to enhance a simple picture (totally IMO) just takes away from the picture.  enhancing a pic with color, contrast, sharpness, etc in photoshop i can understand just because you can't always get a picture of what you actually want, but to just enhance normal pics with filters to try to make something out of them i will never get.  it's like instagram for people that know how to edit pictures beyond their iphone.

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What you just described..... "to just enhance normal pics with filters to try to make something out of them i will never get. " is the very definition of "Photographic Art."

Imagine music without mixing boards, frequency filters, bass and treble adjustments...you get the idea. When music hit the electronic age it evolved....and so is photography. If you want snapshots use your phone (absolutely nothing wrong with snapshots) If you want to make visual music...pick up a camera and play!

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