Daniel Krueger

Beautiful tones and a beautiful shot. Well done. The water is beautifully blurred.

@mistyisle, @loki

Yes, Topaz DeNoise, Beth turned me on to it a few years ago. I believe there is a 2 tier payment model. You can buy the product and additionally you can buy an annual maintenance plan that gets you all the upgrades. I bought that as well.  In fact, I have the suite. DeNoise, Sharpen and GigaPixel. I really only use DeNoise.…[Read more]

See story of the photo in Pieta Close Up  submission

@jasenkag, @stevewalker, @diripics, @dahliaambrose

So, some of the back story;

This statue, The Pieta is found in the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota. It’s a US National Shrine and Pilgrimage Site. I’ve been waiting to get back in here for a while now. It’s was closed off to visitors due to COVID for about a year.

The cathedral was…[Read more]

@diripics Oh yeah, I do like your crop better, I actually had it about that close, but backed off. I was trying to add some space, some lines and some depth, but found myself conflicted with that lower right corner. I cropped it in Lightroom and it just seemed to tight. But when I see your image it seems fine. Funny how that works.

I initially…[Read more]

@dahliaambrose, @jasenkag @kim, @diripics

It’s funny. In my Minnesota Photo group they all picked the color!

@patrickw, @ozride, @admin, @stevewalker, @rambler

Concerning the blowout in at the top. I went back to the RAW file and did some experimenting and I just couldn’t get it to look right. The photo is just over exposed up there.

With that said. Would an ND filter have made a difference?

Here are the conditions:

A fairly bright sunny day up top.…[Read more]

Great photo. I love B&W.

@diripics, @erik-fransman

Thanks for your feedback.

Here is the “unedited” color. Crop and “Adobe Landscape color profile applied.

I saw this driving home from work last fall and it caught my eye. I’ll be honest, the color image is lacking as Graham suggested. So that I I chose B&W. I was leaning on the monochrome treatment to create some level…[Read more]

@bgordon806, @patrickw, @stevewalker, @rambler, @admin

My photo was taken last summer, 2 days after a thunder storm. Minnehaha Creek is a small creek that runs through Minneapolis. This summer we’ve had a terrible drought. This is what it looked like last Sunday,

Maybe this is the one!!