By the way, that wasn’t my favorite pano from that shoot. Here it is:
I had assumed that there wouldn’t be much difference in the Merge to Panorama options in Photoshop. But reading a recent Rick Sammon post I realized that it might make a big difference. On this Pano I took on “auto” a lot of the foreground was cut off. I redid the pano using “cylindrical” and a lot more foreground was saved.
A few months ago I learned that you can take a single image and run it through Photomatix. I got good results trying this on some recent pics. Today while reviewing photos I may add to my portfolio, I came across some shots I had really enjoyed taking in Sedona back on New Years day 2008. But when I saw how much shadow there was in the photo, I thought that it was time to try a single image Photomatix. I think it brought the picture up a notch.
Well I like this shot a lot, but I feel insecure about it. Maybe it’s only a block of ice. I live in California. What do I know of ice? But still I like it. What do you think?
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Decided to work on a batch of photos for my portfolio and came across one of my favorite Bryce photos in IR. Since I’d just done a conversion to Black & White using Nik Silver Effects Pro yesterday I thought I’d try it again. I am very impressed.
I’ve been showing off recent work with Plug Ins. Last weekend I took some IR photos at the Cabrillo Monument tide pools. One thing I’ve found with IR is that they are really good candidates for Black & White. I converted this photo to B&W using Nik Silver Effects Pro – a really amazing plug in.
On our way to Julian, we stopped at a winery. They had an antique washing machine outside and I took some shots. I decided that it would be fun to take some of these shots and make them a little more abstract. An all but one photo I used Topaz Simlpity. On the first shot I used a couple of effects from OnOne Photo Tools. Click on a photo to view a gallery.
On Saturday we went up to Julian and decided to Hike the old Banner Grade. Along the way, there was a car crashed over the side. I’ll bet it’s from the 40’s. I wish I’d had a rope to do some close ups. After a mile or so, there is an abandoned gold mine. What’s left of the mine is interesting. Again it was hard to get real close, because most of it is over a ledge.
For this shot I did an HDR in Photomatix, then tweaked the colors slightly in Nik Viveza, then went into OnOne Photo Tools. After that I sharpened it with Topaz Detail.
I upgraded to OnOne Plug in Suite 5, so I thought that I’d share a few recent images tweaked using the new version. These all were adjusted in Photo Tools, and in one I also used Photo Frame.
On Sunday we went out to Balboa Park to try out a few new toys. I’d received my new set of filters for my wide angle lens. One of the new filters is an enhancing filter. I wasn’t sure how it would work but was pleased with the results.
Continuing my experiments with the Orton Effect. (As a reminder I’m using Lightroom to create 2 over exposed virtual copies of a shot, one with high clarity & one with low clarity. I merge these as layers in Photoshop, and change the blend mode to multiply.)
I thought that Orton Effect may work well with IR Photos. (Since IR photos are supposed to have an otherworldly look anyway.) What do you think?
