here's a link to a nice new feature in the gradient filter:
http://flip.it/vyZz2j
Roy
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Possible Photo Op - Event Photography @ Lotus Live
LOTUS LIVE
Earn a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Title | Saturday, July 15
LOTUS LIVE is an effort to earn the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the largest human flower. Part human be-in, part artwork, part celebration of our Flower Power exhibition and the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's Summer of Love and ALL FUN!
Be part of history and join us to form a beautiful lotus that can be seen from the sky. We need at least 3,000 community members who want to create something larger than themselves to break the record.
All participants will receive FREE admission to the museum’s Flower Power exhibition, a souvenir event poster, a chance to win raffle prizes, and more.
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Not sure if drone photography would be allowed around this or not. If interested, check in advance...
Monday, June 5, 2017
Meetup: How to Improve Your Photography
June 6, 2017
https://www.meetup.com/101PhotoClub/events/239412529/?rv=md1&_af=event&_af_eid=239412529&https=on
https://www.meetup.com/101PhotoClub/events/239412529/?rv=md1&_af=event&_af_eid=239412529&https=on
Adjusting Color in Photographs - Vibrance & Saturation - And, a Light Hand
For several years there was a post-processing trend in photography in which virtually everyone was over-processing their images to produce "crunchy" (surreal) HDR looks. Thankfully that trend has passed...
Unfortunately it has been replaced by a new, equally awful, trend - the over-saturation of images.
People pull sliders for Saturation (and, Vibrance - oh yes, Vibrance can be way overdone and distort colors too) too far to the right and completely distort the colors in their captured scenes. The result is that colors in photos with overly aggressive uses of Vibrance and/or Saturation sliders have zero resemblance to reality. That is unless the makers were imbibing some interesting 'enhancements' in order to see such a thing at the time of capture or processing... Just go to any arts & wine fest in the past or current year and you will see these abuses of color adjustments.
Experts in photo processing suggest adjusting color (using either vibrance or saturation or a combo of the sliders) to your 1st "hey, this is great" impression point - then sliding back down from that point by a significant amount to a 2nd, "okay, this is artistic, includes some subtlety of color tones and will be something others can relate to" point. That is, if the goal is to create an artful (as in classic painterly art, not 60's neon poster art - even Galen Rowell went over the top in his photographic images) final effect.
It's the same theory as not creating images that are too cluttered with objects.
Less is more.
Here's a tutorial on Vibrance & Saturation. It includes illustrations. Keep in mind that the settings numbers quoted as 'extreme' for the Vibrance slider (~75) in this article are way way too high for general use vs illustrating how Vibrance & Saturation sliders differ.
https://photographylife.com/saturation-or-vibrance/
Unfortunately it has been replaced by a new, equally awful, trend - the over-saturation of images.
People pull sliders for Saturation (and, Vibrance - oh yes, Vibrance can be way overdone and distort colors too) too far to the right and completely distort the colors in their captured scenes. The result is that colors in photos with overly aggressive uses of Vibrance and/or Saturation sliders have zero resemblance to reality. That is unless the makers were imbibing some interesting 'enhancements' in order to see such a thing at the time of capture or processing... Just go to any arts & wine fest in the past or current year and you will see these abuses of color adjustments.
Experts in photo processing suggest adjusting color (using either vibrance or saturation or a combo of the sliders) to your 1st "hey, this is great" impression point - then sliding back down from that point by a significant amount to a 2nd, "okay, this is artistic, includes some subtlety of color tones and will be something others can relate to" point. That is, if the goal is to create an artful (as in classic painterly art, not 60's neon poster art - even Galen Rowell went over the top in his photographic images) final effect.
It's the same theory as not creating images that are too cluttered with objects.
Less is more.
Here's a tutorial on Vibrance & Saturation. It includes illustrations. Keep in mind that the settings numbers quoted as 'extreme' for the Vibrance slider (~75) in this article are way way too high for general use vs illustrating how Vibrance & Saturation sliders differ.
https://photographylife.com/saturation-or-vibrance/
Friday, June 2, 2017
Hands-on Flash Exposure Demo Program - FFF Meeting, June 2, 2017
After a lecture on how to set a camera and use modifiers that help separate subjects from their surroundings in different types of light, Jerry Ramie took FFF members outdoors to practice flash photography in the open shade at historic Ainsley House. The "models" and some chimping paparazzi at the event are pictured. Ironically, this photographer's captures were not made with a flash.
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