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[BobbyBubblehead]

What software are you using for post processing? You are using it well, whatever it may be.

Ahh, the software I was introduced to and got a book about just as it became version 4... Photoshop.

After I've converted the raw .NEF files to .TIFF with nikon software.

My method that seems to be becoming standard procedure :-

Auto tone
Auto contrast
Colour balance
Photo filter (tint)
Layer gradient overlay (custom colours) applied with soft light or overlay.
Brightness and contrast or exposure tweaks if needed.
Merge layers then reduce from 6000x4000 to 3000x2000 pixels.



Let's me find a pleasing beauty in something as unsuspecting as these rose leafs set against what was actually just damp fence wood feather paneling.

I'm kind of looking at it as a two step procedure in short. 1. Frame a shot capturing desired detail. 2. Try to gracefully with artistic license, make the less relevant detail fade away leaving a pleasing complimentary surrounding.

I think I've adopted some long forgotten print making philosophy from my art college days... Probably end up tessalting and printing off my own wallpaper or something.

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

Making the most of four days of rain.
Even found time to write my lense wish list

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

after I good few shots I got the reflections in the rain droplets focused.



Doge rose mutated by the gall wasp... always fascinated me.

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

Well I'm sure that's the limits of the stock lens before iso, shutter speed, aperture and focal range fall apart...
Be easier to find a bee the size of a football

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

Hairy shield bug




Hairy shield bug larvae

they actually hatched while I was messing around... I need to speed up my process





I`m going to be living in the undergrowth when I get a proper macro lens

 

[Blaylock]

You're getting some great shots Bobby.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

You're getting some great shots Bobby.

I agree!
Nice shots bobby!

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

Moments from the garden safari part II
























near macro stock lens makes you practice hard...
Imagine its easier when I get the right toys. instead of one in thirty shots you can process it`ll be which of 25 shots you choose to process

 

[JLK03F150]

I missed that last set Bobby. Wow!

I shot a bird out the window...

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

This week I have mostly been landscaping...

 

[Blaylock]

Wow Bobby. Those are amazing. I might be adding some of these into my wallpaper folder.

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

Ahh, well if you appreciate them then there`s a few later shots from the day before...
I went for cooler filters...
same wheat fields cooler later evening

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

Oh, Blaylock
The originals are 6000x4000
I could probably get them to you some way or another...

 

[Bustos]

Damn nice! I'm not a photography guy but I can see the progression from your earlier photos to this last set. Damn nice!

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

More sunsets & silhouettes...
Its my thing this week





















spot the plane competition...
I didn't even seen it when I took the shots

 

[Blaylock]

5th picture between the two thin stalks.

What do I win? Lol

 

[BobbyBubblehead]

Erm, you win the satisfying knowledge some people were leaving Birmingham and off somewhere infinitely nicer

 

[Blaylock]

I woke up at 2AM Island Time to make it to the Haleakela summit for the most amazing sunrise in the US.

 

[hokiealumnus]

Wow. Great shot....and I'm totally jealous.

 

[Jarhead7236]

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