Don't ever sell your old Bogen Autopoles....
Don't ever sell your old Bogen Autopoles....
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They don't call it a ghost town for nothing...Originally Posted by lbenac
Sam, The Stud Farm Kitty
Bronica SQ-Ai
180mm f/4.5 Zenzanon-PS Lens
Tri-X @ 1250 in Diafine
Burbank, WA
Tuco, this is a great shot. I see what appears to be a '39 Packard off to the right. But I think your subject might be a '35 Cord, but I can't really tell. It does have the pontoon fenders and the manifold ports. If I could just see the coffin nose ...Went to a car show last weekend. It's hard to get an isolated shot of a car without all the people being in it.
M7II, 65mm, 400TMY, Pentax Digital Spot Meter, N-2 dev
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Thank you!
It's takes a bit of editing. I start out by double processing the raw file in ACR. Dropping the clarity for the background and out of focus regions in one ACR edit and raising the clarity for the in focus subject in another. I also perform selective color adjustments for each ACR edit. Selective sharpening is done only the subject as well. Once in CS5 I mask them together. A soft focus type effect is performed on the background:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-23bvHi3Q
And ColorEfex tonal contrast performed on the subject. These two operations result in more subject/background separation because of the more stark contrast in smoothness and detail/sharpness. The eyes are heavily dodged and sponged to increase saturation and brightness. I use SilverEfex to convert to black and white lowering the structure for the background. A red/orange filter is used on a separate SilverEfex edit to really bring out the eyes. That is then masked into the other SilverEfex layer. Both layers are toned in SilverEfex and the color further modified via a colorbalance layer to adjust colors from a green/blue to a more brown/red. A subtle but strong vignette is done by using a large soft brush to darken the edges while not being 'heavy' and readily apparent like a black overlay. Dodging the center with a large soft brush too.
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"There is little or no ‘reality’ in the blacks, grays and whites of either the informational or expressive black-and-white image" -Ansel Adams
That's a purrfect looking kitty cat! Nice one.
Sam, The Stud Farm Kitty
Bronica SQ-Ai
180mm f/4.5 Zenzanon-PS Lens
Tri-X @ 1250 in Diafine
Burbank, WA
Nikon F100 w new 50/1.8 AFS and Portra 400
Nice, Frank. Did you take one that included the middle yellow line on the road -- just thinking that it would have played nicely off the yellow light hitting the treeline.
Good idea....
I did find a yellow line, sort of:
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