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nice!  tones & contrast are spot on, as is the dof.  love the graphic look of the dark leaves outlined in white.

the star aperture plate makes a lot of sense with the results.  thanks for the info.

maybe a textured glass?

nice color, interesting texture.  was this shot through screen or something?

i didn’t like fallout ’76.  but the rest of the games are fantastic with new vegas being my favorite.  i think we’re finally in that golden era where shows and movies based off of video games are fairly good.

thanks tersha.

that’s the only way i’ve ever seen it used.  i haven’t seen anyone use it to “calibrate” anything.

i think his eyes are bigger than his stomach.

great cloud formations in the first two.  the foreground in the last one is my favorite.

nice review of the new tool.  i haven’t played with it yet.

nice b&w tones on this.  love the light and detail on the end of the stem where the buds begin.  the tonal separation between the stem and flower buds is great, and i like that the background mimics the same tones without the subject blending in.

the tones are too similar in the first.  it needs more tonal separation.  the second one is better, the tones and the dof define the subject.

here’s one from my last round of photos.  the reference photo on the left was a copy of the final with all of the color calibration turned off.  the image on the right uses the color calibration settings shown in the panel.  it’s pretty subtle since the image was fairly colorless to begin with.  but the yellows are a tiny bit more orange and wha…[Read more]

i use it regularly to get some richer and moodier colors.  it differs from the hsl panel by affecting all colors and not just the greens.  consider it as a modifier of the hex code, every color is coded by 2 digits ranging from 0-f (after 9 comes a-f).  the first 2 digits of the hex code are reds, the second 2 are greens and the third 2 are bl…[Read more]

the swamp gas took this one.

great capture of the moon.  there’s some really sharp details in the texture.

we call them fool moons at work.  people lose their minds and the craziest stuff happens.  i never used to believe in this crap, but it turns out to be true nearly every month.  also happens when the heat is over 100 degrees for 3+ days.

thanks frank.

i’d consider it a fairly remote park.  there’s not much out there for awhile.  the 3 nearest cities are portland, boise (the most remote city in the contiguous us) and san francisco and are all 3-6 hours away.  a lot of other parks are only an hour or two from a major city.

thanks rob