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Let’s not derail this into a discussion of semantics, OK?

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So what did you do to get a completely different color sky in the color version up top?

I edited the cyan channel the with the hue/saturation control- since there was little blue anywhere else in the image, it mostly affected the sky. I was trying to recreate the color I remembered in real time. Also, the top image has a multiply layer applied, much as the bottom b&w one does, to darken it. that also caused a bit of a color shift.

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“Burning” = Adding exposure in the traditional darkroom.
“Dodging” = Removing exposure by blocking light in traditional darkroom practice (making a positive from a negative image).

My use of the terms is in the frame of reference of a traditional analog darkroom. 40+ years of experience dies hard.

Since we are actually working on a positive image, it may be technically correct to reverse the terms, or find new terms of art for new media. (‘Screen’ and ‘Multiply’ come to mind. 🙂 )

If you add a black layer mask, you can spot lighten or darken much like one might in a traditional darkroom. Regarding burning or dodging being ‘spot treatments’, there’s no rule saying how big an area the ‘spot’ must or must not cover. I’ve burned a third to half of a print many times.

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I think what concerns me about layers is that it’s kind of like compositing different exposures, which is too similar to HDR for my tastes. But I’m open to a clarifying discussion (probably should put it on another board/thread, though!). I don’t use a lot of that kind of post processing myself, mostly just curves, contrast, saturation, and unsharp mask.

Your wish is my command.

(Warning, get comfortable before clicking that link) 🙂

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I like pretty much all of these. 🙂

Hey. This theme made me remember a question I have. My Canons seem to have trouble with largish, relatively uniform red-red things. They get blown out in relation to the rest of the frame.

Example – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/peopleplaces/m_7822.jpg

Check out the red dress. It featureless in this pic but not in real life. Any input? (I spent an afternoon taking pics of this dynamic lady for a mail-out thing she did while running for county board.)

It’s partially a Canon software issue, but more fundamentally it’s a sensor/IR issue. Look at this (somewhat technical) article over at dXo labs:

http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/en/Our-publications/DxOMark-Insights/Canon-500D-T1i-vs.-Nikon-D5000/Color-blindness-sensor-quality

Note the narrower bandwidth of the red channel, then consider that the built-in IR filter chops off some of that at the far-right; the result is less “range” in the red channel, and easier “blocking/saturation” of the reds (and colors that are red-dependent, such as purple and orange).

The sensor/filter sensitivities are inherent in how CMOS sensors are made; I’m less sure about other processes.

Hope this helps 🙂

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In other words, photograph groups of three: people, leaves, locomotives, whatever.

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The only problem I have with the current stats setup is that I feel like you are penalized too heavily for:

a) not having been here in the beginning,, and
b) missing contests.

which leads to situations where someone like myself who has spent time in the hospital or for other reasons has to miss contest, loses the chance to achieve: It quickly becomes statistically impossible to achieve a higher standing. I also feel that the emphasis on not missing contests produces an awful lot of placeholder entries, that are just there to make sure that stats are maintained, which I feel is a detriment to the whole effort people make. I know I’m guilty of it at times.

To be sure, I like and appreciate most of what the FSM does for us, I just think a couple of the basic premises should be tweaked a bit.

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Weather Fail here.

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I went back a few years in my archives: All of the ones I picked, including the B-sides, were black and white. Not sure what that says….

Beees:

Diner 1 by pjern, on Flickr

Daybreak, Wells, NV by pjern, on Flickr

Road to the Golden Spike by pjern, on Flickr

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In the primitive replica watches contemporary society to contemporary modern society, females dress up become more and a lot more perfect. Only use two leaves or animal fur to warp critical parts of your body from birth to died in primitive culture.

Spammer???

Edited by Elsinore to remove spammer link

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FARK/Drew, I am disappoint. Nothing there you couldn’t see at a public beach.

You have to look at it from the Modmin’s P.O.V. if they start to blur the line a little bit and the next thing you know, it’s frickin’ 4chan in the thread. You, and I, and the rest of the regular Farktographers know where the line is and how not cross, the drunk ass moron at 3:3O AM who starts posting “art shots” of donkey porn because he saw a glimpse of boobie upthread not only doesn’t know where the line is, he wouldn’t know it if he tripped over it.

And it’s ALWAYS a he.

Yeah, this is why we can’t have nice things.

Well, I knew it was an iffy thing, and that’s why I asked first. That’s also why I put it in a small thumbnail here, so as not to potentially offend anyone here (I didn’t think it would, but I didn’t need to make it a large jpg, either).

Yeah, in an ideal world we’d all be adults, but that just doesn’t happen.

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Can I get a (N)SFW ruling, please?

Click for the full glory:

Composition in Grey, with Art by pjern, on Flickr

Composition in Grey, with Art by pjern, on Flickr

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That’s pretty much in the intended spirit, clouddancer.

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My intention was to have a fairly open theme, in the sense that there is an art as well as a science to photography. Think “I don’t know what art is, but I know it when I see it”.

I was looking for photographs that engage the viewer, or make them think; not just pretty pictures.

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Here’s the whole set I picked my entries from:

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