Capture: Two Tone
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
See, I’m learning heaps here.
Me too, might have to overcome my resistance to photo-tweaking.
Nice to see David’s Dunedin flowers back again : )
Here’s a couple untweaked.
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Jos,
Good thread!
I've been a darkroom slave for more than 30 years and am very pleased that I don't have to do it anymore. Shooting raw on a full frame (35mm size) digital camera gives you the best negative ever. Conversion in Photoshop is the best. I use a very quick and simple method. I add a gradient map adjustment layer set to black and white, then a curves adjustment layer to tweak it, works very well.
A moment of calm in a Tauranga mall
and a 'toned' cineraria -
My best efforts to date.
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I thought the last one might make a nice house for that canine receptacle Nora posted a while back.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
the last one
Hmmm... simplified characters (废,电), electric scooters... Somewhere in Mainland China but I've never seen a rubbish bin with such a roof. Where? There's a licence plate on the motorbike, but I can't see the character for the province/municipality/autonomous region it's registered in.
Middle one has Chinese patterning on the cross beams, and seems to be part of a long corridor.... Long Corridor at the Summer Palace/颐和园? Dunno, been a while since I've been up that way, but I don't remember the columns being so thick. The wooden boards around the bases of the columns suggest maintenance was in progress.
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"chris", in reply to
They were taken in (ex-Amsterdam of the East contender) Dali, Yunnan. Last month was my first visit, beautiful area, but very touristy, hence these elaborate bins. The summer palace knock off is a ferry port with wooden benches for the throngs.
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Today dawned…. apocalyptically.
And believe me, those are both improvements on the washed-out, faded, 90 years sitting in direct sunlight watercolour painting of a Beijing sunrise I saw at 7:15am-ish.....
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
(ex-Amsterdam of the East contender)
So there's been a bit of a crack down, has there?
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"chris", in reply to
apocalyptically
Yeesh. In that second pic, I’m guessing that’s the National Centre for Performing Arts in the middle ground, but what’s happening up close, at a first glance it was yacht masts, then windcatchers, very mysterious.
So there’s been a bit of a crack down, has there?
There was quite a big one in or around 2011, as I understand it, the capture of Justin Solondz in 2009 was the turning point. There are certainly no 老太太 (old ladies) selling hashish in the streets now, something I heard was happening back in 2010. Then again, perhaps I just went in the wrong/ right season...
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Thanks Nora, my camera was part of my daughter’s science fair experiment for three months, which rather limited pictures this year (though if anyone wants to see thousands of pictures of the same lawn, my daughter could help you out there).
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
the National Centre for Performing Arts in the middle ground, but what’s happening up close, at a first glance it was yacht masts, then windcatchers, very mysterious.
Actually, neither. The Egg-looking thing is the Olympic Badminton Gymnasium, which still has its Beijing 2008 banners up, on the southeast corner of my university's campus. The yacht masty-thing is an attempt at a fancy covering of a grandstand beside a rather sad looking track and field venue. Photo taken from Teaching Building 3 while I was waiting for the students who didn't show up for class...
My only drug experiences of Yunnan were seeing a pile of bongs outside a shop in the courtyard of Kunming bus station, watching an old man take a hit from a bong in an outdoor teahouse in mid January (for the uninitiated, that's a traditional way of smoking tobacco down that way, and outdoors in mid January is magic if you've just escaped a Beijing winter) and my bus being stopped twice on the still under construction highway between Simao and Jinghong at a People's Armed Police checkpoint (again: entrance to the Golden Triangle from the Chinese side) and at the second checkpoint yelling out "Passport!" at a befuddled young Englishman who'd somehow managed to fall asleep and couldn't understand the Yunnan pronunciation of 护照 (hùzhào in standard Mandarin; fùzào according to the PAP trooper; means passport). That and some rather disappointing beer.
(oh, and bracketed notes were not for you, but for any others who may need a little more context)
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I thought the last one might make a nice house for that canine receptacle Nora posted a while back.
Could be a market for them!
And what a great selection of pictures popping up here.
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Tonight’s double yolker full moon
Golf course from the motorway
(Both shamelessly and roughly converted from colour)
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There’s a moon in there… and a CCTV* camera… and an amazingly huge clue as to which corner of Beijing I live in for those who read Chinese.
And just for the apocalypse of it... red moon.
*but not China Central Television
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Playing with the desaturation. One in Grayscale, the other still RGB.
Great stuff, and yeah David, glad you got your camera back. The tree stump is very cool.
Waiting for my registration to LightZone to be authenticated so I can download it and have a play.
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Using the sepia filter in PS. Victoria Building, from colour digital.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
a curves adjustment layer to tweak it
Pulling both ends of the Levels towards
the middle works wonders also... -
Giant cray pot
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"chris", in reply to
Pulling both ends of the Levels towards the middle
Thank you Ian. Works a treat.
Jackson, I seem to lose a lot of detail with uploads, any tips re: file type/ dimensions?
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JacksonP, in reply to
Driftwood hut, Whakatane heads. Used the levels trick, cheers.
My best efforts to date.
Meant to say, damn fine efforts too.
any tips re: file type/ dimensions?
I just save as jpg out of Photoshop, after resizing to about 1000 to 1200 width or height max. This seems to create images about 400 to 500k, which works pretty well here. If I'm exporting from iPhoto, same image size with Quality high, Custom size as above. Hope that helps.
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David Hood, in reply to
Pulling both ends of the Levels towards the middle works wonders also…
Pulling the ends in means that the photo will use the full range from light to dark. Moving the mid point (grey) can also be highly effective if you have something in the picture you want the attention on- most cameras try and take the best overall picture which is not necessarily the best setting for the thing in the middle of the picture that is your subject. Nudging the grey point is particularly useful where you have some bright sky or dark background the camera has tried to balance the subject with.
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A couple from around the University of Otago
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I thought I’d have a bit more serious play, and it just so happened that the sun rising over the next building seemed to lend itself to a little amateur gothicism….
Original for reference’s sake.
I used Picasa to convert to black and white because Picasa is nice and user-friendly…. good for rank amateurs like me, in other words. But somebody around here recommended Irfan View, and while I’m finding it hard to learn, it does seem to have a bit more functionality. Used Irfan View to try some of the ideas suggested in this thread. I’ve got a lot more learning and practicing to do, but it’s a start.
And one with a bit of a blue tint, purely from Picasa.
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And a selfie
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3 variations on the same photo.
#1 Only what I got from Picasa.
#2 Irfan View the first.
#3 Irfan View the second.
I'm not sure which one I prefer.... Still trying to figure things out, but I'm being told to hurry up, so will try again later.
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