Show Off Them Skills

If your pictures were bigger, I'd save them and use them as my desktop wallpaper. Wow!

 

They actually fit for wallpaper....at least they do on mine

 

This is my son, and my best photo yet:

 

Great pic. What a fine looking young man. I often get to thinkin' that I woulda traded all 4 of my daughters in for a boy. Too late now...

 

Wow!! I love this photo, what a cool little village this must be. Great colors Cobblestone streets are cool

 

Orcas Island

Sunset on Orcas Island, a HDR (high dynamic range) composition:

 

Riviera

This car was owned by my late business associate. It was his "Baby"!

 

That's really a car with personality. Nice post-processing treatment!

And the last instalment of the Small French Village series.

 

Thanks, Yukio! Love your photo series. Could you roughly describe your steps in post processing of this latest one? It's just amazing!

 

First, I generated a tone-mapped hdr tiff with Photomatix. Then, in PS:

– Copy layer.
– Unsharp mask
– Create mask and reduce the blown out highlights with black brush
– Flatten
– Select the brightest tones of the photograph (ctrl + alt + ~) and create new layer (ctrl + j)
– Gaussian blur on that new layer
– Create new custom black and white adjustment layer for that same layer
– Flatten
– New adjustment layer: saturation + 20
– Loosely select cobblestones and create new layer
– Unsharp mask
– Flatten

Voilà!

 

Fire Clouds from my back porch.

 

Thank you! Now I've got something to play with tonight!

 

That all sounds very complicated

Nice pics Klaus

 

Found an old picture. Two versions: vivid or pale. Nothing too fancy.

 

Wow, great photos guys!! I really like the Orchid and the Church shot

 

People,

If I had wanted the sun in the middle, I would have put it there.

Thanks for your interest, though.

Just checking in.

God

 

What pic are you talking about. Cant find it in this thread.

 

It's on the first page of this thread. Sorry, I didn't realize until I'd posted taht so much had happened in the interim. :drool

John

 

Wow. Y'all's pictures are so nice. I have nothing to compare. But I have added my proudest shout. It shows two things: how stealthy I am around wildlife, and how animals other than humans can admire a good view.