As I mentioned near the start of this month, things have been extremely hectic and I've hardly had a minute to myself, let alone any time to take photographs. I've been working on a couple of external projects, that I'll tell you about at some point, and Libby has been busy as a finalist in the Outstanding Woman in Business Award category in the ABF Tiger Awards, 2008 and attending other events.
And next week isn't going to be much different, not least because I need to finish my latest Digital Workflow tutorial by Friday (or thereabouts). After that though, things should be a bit quieter and I'm hoping to spend a lot of time in July and August just taking photographs.
As for this one: it was taken this afternoon down at our local park with my new Canon G9, and combines a few of my recent passions - it's an HDR shot, processed using Photomatix Pro and a three shot bracketed sequence, and it's also processed in LAB Color mode, the topic of my latest tutorial. In this instance I used LAB to change the colour of the foreground from a fairly lurid shade of green to the more neutral blue/grey you can see here.
On a related matter: I don't know how many of you know about the annual European Photobloggers meetup, but this year's event is in Barcelona. I'm hoping to go along as I attended the first meetup in London in 2005 and thoroughly enjoyed it. I missed the last two though – Amsterdam in 2006 and Berlin in 2007 – so thought I better make more of an effort this year :-)
If you're interested, there are some further details here:
comment by DavidC at 07:49 PM (GMT) on 27 June, 2008
Very nice shot! details are so clear. Im really curious to see the before picture on this one since you did so much post processing. That little G9 packs a punch, Ill have to look into one. Great quality, at least for web resolution.
comment by DavidC at 08:05 PM (GMT) on 27 June, 2008
Your post processing skills are amazing, in this one you literally took trash and made it into something captivating. The original photo has no appeal to me, but I cant stop looking at the details in the final piece! the red and blue work so well together! Great work!
How are you getting such a shallow DoF, Dave? Presumably you've used the macro mode again and, I must confess, it's something I've really not tried out a lot on my G9 to be honest. Do you tend to use a certain number of settings when on the G9?
comment byAlice at 05:01 PM (GMT) on 29 June, 2008
Amazes me how you can even make a simple Coke can look interesting. :-) Nice shot.
Great HDR / Lab PP ! You mentioned that you used Lab to change the foreground from green to grey. Was Lab also used for the background as well? What parts did you mask? (if any)
Al: I didn't use any masking for the colour change. LAB allows you to alter specific colour ranges within an image quite easily by altering the Curve in either the 'a' or 'b' channel, or both. If you're interested, this is covered in my latest LAB tutorial.
Oi!!! This is twice now I've asked about the DoF with your G9 shots and both times been ignored. My money is on you having added it in during post process...but I don't class that as a bad thing. So, come on....confess!! ;)
As I mentioned near the start of this month, things have been extremely hectic and I've hardly had a minute to myself, let alone any time to take photographs. I've been working on a couple of external projects, that I'll tell you about at some point, and Libby has been busy as a finalist in the Outstanding Woman in Business Award category in the ABF Tiger Awards, 2008 and attending other events.
And next week isn't going to be much different, not least because I need to finish my latest Digital Workflow tutorial by Friday (or thereabouts). After that though, things should be a bit quieter and I'm hoping to spend a lot of time in July and August just taking photographs.
As for this one: it was taken this afternoon down at our local park with my new Canon G9, and combines a few of my recent passions - it's an HDR shot, processed using Photomatix Pro and a three shot bracketed sequence, and it's also processed in LAB Color mode, the topic of my latest tutorial. In this instance I used LAB to change the colour of the foreground from a fairly lurid shade of green to the more neutral blue/grey you can see here.
On a related matter: I don't know how many of you know about the annual European Photobloggers meetup, but this year's event is in Barcelona. I'm hoping to go along as I attended the first meetup in London in 2005 and thoroughly enjoyed it. I missed the last two though – Amsterdam in 2006 and Berlin in 2007 – so thought I better make more of an effort this year :-)
If you're interested, there are some further details here:
http://europephotobloggers.org/2008meetup
Very nice shot! details are so clear. Im really curious to see the before picture on this one since you did so much post processing. That little G9 packs a punch, Ill have to look into one. Great quality, at least for web resolution.
David: ok, here's a link to the metered exposure, processed with the default settings in ACR (and no sharpening) -
http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archives/cherry_coke.php
Your post processing skills are amazing, in this one you literally took trash and made it into something captivating. The original photo has no appeal to me, but I cant stop looking at the details in the final piece! the red and blue work so well together! Great work!
Thanks David.
I don't like complicated pictures... This one makes me really happy.
Thanks
Great stuff - hate canned fizzy drinks - but empty and thrown away they do give togs endless creative opportunities ;-) Glad you managed a walkabout!
Gorgeous crisp colors, as always. This shot made me thirsty. How do you do it?
I've looked at this multiple times over the last day or two, and I love it more every time. Amazing.
How are you getting such a shallow DoF, Dave? Presumably you've used the macro mode again and, I must confess, it's something I've really not tried out a lot on my G9 to be honest. Do you tend to use a certain number of settings when on the G9?
Amazes me how you can even make a simple Coke can look interesting. :-) Nice shot.
Congrats to Libby on making the finals.
Thanks all.
Great still life of an iconic design... I love the muted red colour
Makes me thirsty :-)
Great HDR / Lab PP ! You mentioned that you used Lab to change the foreground from green to grey. Was Lab also used for the background as well? What parts did you mask? (if any)
Al: I didn't use any masking for the colour change. LAB allows you to alter specific colour ranges within an image quite easily by altering the Curve in either the 'a' or 'b' channel, or both. If you're interested, this is covered in my latest LAB tutorial.
Oi!!! This is twice now I've asked about the DoF with your G9 shots and both times been ignored. My money is on you having added it in during post process...but I don't class that as a bad thing. So, come on....confess!! ;)
Sorry Mark: a) for not answering the first time, and b) because you're wrong ;-) The DoF in macro mode is actually quite shallow.
This is such a 'sweet' shot :)
By the way, thanks for the info about the blogger meetup. Looks like something I'd love to attend.
Cheers :) I shall start trying that out a bit more I think.
I really like what you did here!