Topic: Let's talk Canon digital SLRs...

[Frank in JC]

She is a cute girl and pretty photogenic so it was fun for me being able to focus on composition and lighting.  I have not really done any post processing, just a quick exposure adjustment and bumped saturation a bit.  I'll probably lighten up her eyes and teeth when i go to print the image. 

The Portraiture plugin is really cool I've played around with it a bit, I went ahead and bought the Imagenomic "package". I'm not always a big fan of that highly processed skin look for portraits so have not done to much with it.  I probably should try it out as an adjustment layer and drop the opacity down to better control how aggressive the effect is. 

Yes, it produces almost surreal images when the smoothing effect is applied liberally.  The pictures below started as an extreme crop of a crummy snapshot taken in poor lighting (end of disclaimer). 

These are over the top, but that was the idea.  Another effect I tried was to create a copy of a layer, hit it with a big Gaussian blur (radius ~50 pixels).  Change the layer mode to "screen" and then turn down its opacity to about 30%.  It creates a nice glowing effect.  Then use the eraser tool to remove the blurred areas over the subject's lips and eyes.  I've never done this kind of stuff before but I'm looking forward to improving.

Edit: BTW, check out the pearly-whites.  Who needs Crest with whitening power when you have the sponge and dodge tools?








Vogue, here I come!   

[BJ]

Here is one of my latest..fooling around with dark shots.  C & C welcome..esp parts about what you would do in ps with this shot.

[stirinthesauce]

Here is one of my latest..fooling around with dark shots.  C & C welcome..esp parts about what you would do in ps with this shot.

ohhhhhh, I like numero uno 

[BJ]

thanx buff..that is my fav of the bunch too.  I tried a red light on #3, but I couldn't quite get it to do what I wanted.  I went ahead and posted a shot...but the other two REALLY look much better to me.

[Sanjay]

I like em.

I took #1, threw it into photoshop, applied the neon glow filter for blue (but you can pick any color), and brightened it up a bit.  Turned the picture into a two tone outline and background of the guitar.  I thought it was cool looking, almost like a logo or a t shirt design.  Blurring the lines of photography and graphic design, but might be something to fool around with.

[BJ]

I like em.

I took #1, threw it into photoshop, applied the neon glow filter for blue (but you can pick any color), and brightened it up a bit.  Turned the picture into a two tone outline and background of the guitar.  I thought it was cool looking, almost like a logo or a t shirt design.  Blurring the lines of photography and graphic design, but might be something to fool around with.

mind posting it?  i would love to see it.  I'm not much on ps yet..

[Ryan Sims]

+T as a fellow Tak player!

[Frank in JC]

Here is one of my latest..fooling around with dark shots.  C & C welcome..esp parts about what you would do in ps with this shot.

I used the "glowing" effect I mentioned in another post, and then dodged the area at the bottom of the picture to reveal the shadow of the tuners.  Then I applied a curve to lighten everything up.  Quick and dirty.  It's starting to show some artifacts, but you get the idea.

[BJ]

+T as a fellow Tak player!

backatya!  I have the Takamine for acoustic, and an hollowbody Ibanez, and japanese Strat for electric.  I REALLY want a hollow body PRS, but don't know that I will ever get that one.

you can tell in the pic that frank did, that the Tak is quite old now and been through alot with me.  I bought it brand new in 1993, hasn't left my side since.  It's the ONLY guitar that I haven't traded/sold along the way.  I've had to have the frets redone twice(maybe strings were too heavy or i push to hard?) and a few minor adjustments, but it still sounds great!

[Ryan Sims]

Well, some of my pics from the other night got featured on Mike Doughty's blog.

http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000707.html

Pretty pumped.

[Shawn]

that's cool ryan.

[Sanjay]

Well, some of my pics from the other night got featured on Mike Doughty's blog.

http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000707.html

Pretty pumped.

congrats!

[BJ]

Do any of you guys have acct's on FredMiranda.com?  My guitar photo made the finals of this weeks contest.  If you happen to look at them, and feel like casting a vote my way, it would be appreciated    if not mine..then vote for someone..those guys are good!!!

[stirinthesauce]

Do any of you guys have acct's on FredMiranda.com?  My guitar photo made the finals of this weeks contest.  If you happen to look at them, and feel like casting a vote my way, it would be appreciated    if not mine..then vote for someone..those guys are good!!!

I've got an account.  I'll check it out.

[eric.B]

the codetalkers with bobby lee!