Ok looking for a " grade " on my pixs....

[mikeofaustin]

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I'm still stuck on that third photo, which was great, but get rid of the tree frame. Then use a wider lens... I would think that it would then be the best photo I've ever seen!!!!

 

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[Frankn]

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Hay PLL They look good, And that's coming from a pro! I do fine art photography sometimes referred to as GICLEE images. I use Elements6 and Painter 9.5. Did you do the vignetting or was that a tight filter ring? What softwear do you use. Some of the filters look like Photoshop Elements. The house looks like a comfortable hideaway.

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[kshollywood]

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OK I personally think that most of these would've looked better in sepia or b&w. The old stuff looks better in sepia to me. The train was lacking color. Now I am a professional wildlife photographer and don't do a lot of buildings but when I have what you have I do them in sepia, just remember that is just my opinion.

 

[Frankn]

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Looks like you are having a good time with your new editing program. Which one is it? Some of those images would look good in sepia toning. That is a brown toning. I do fine art photography and sepia is selling now. It is also great for seans of old places in mags. Have fun, Frank

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[pegleglooker]

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Hi Gang,
If you would like to see some GREAT pixs check out this link http://dezertmagazine.com/current-issue click on the picture and check out the magazine.....

Thx
PLL

 

[Frankn]

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No matter what I click on, I get the same 4 picture slide show!

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[piegrande]

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I am far from an expert on photo-editing. I do spend a lot of time with old family pictures, repairing serious damage, photos as far back as 1890. I use Gimp, a free editor, different from Photoshop but powerful enough that it is sometimes used in professional shops, available for Windows and Linux.

I know nothing about Photoshop. Linux has some good plugins. My favorite is RESTORE. The color change of kodak prints over time and exposure to light is known. The plugin lets you set the degree of color fade, and then automatically adjusts the appropriate colors to compensate for that degree of fade. For a klutz like me it's a God send.

In the US, vignettes I am told are usually black, here in Mexico they prefer white vignettes. Also, Mexican women are gaga over sepia portraits, though GIMP has its own shade of sepia, which you will see below.

The following photo was a badly damaged picture postcard of a small Mexican mountain town in 1908. I am a newbie, so this fix took me all day and into the night. I am retired, so it is a labor of love, so to speak, a donation to the community. But, the local cultural director was very pleased. I told her it was a fraud. The missing body parts at the left, I copied and pasted from other men. She said it wasn't a fraud because she couldn't tell. I told her, no, it's just a good fraud. I gave it to her 10X15 for display at cultural presentations.

I made it sepia because I don't know how to fix those washed out areas which are a totally different color, and sepia tends to minimize the differences. Any ideas?

 

[piegrande]

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An additional thought from a klutz to OP.

Yes, you can do all sorts of effects on photos with these new editors. You did a great job on them.

The next step, which I also need to learn, if I am even capable of learning it, is to develop a sense for when those effects are artistically appropriate. In some venues and with some photos,some effects are appropriate; in others, not. But, I think you are correct in learning those effects early.

I am reminded what an excellent lady told me years ago about perfume. She said most women use far too much. Perfume should be almost subconscious to others, not choking. A drop on a finger and tap it on one breast; another drop on a finger and tap it on an ear lobe, and that's it. Men will not even notice the perfume. They will just get a feeling as it were of something nice about her which is the goal of perfume, not to knock a man down.

 

[jfoto]

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Pegleg, I really really really like pics 2,4,6,and 8.. I like the post processing .. very nice stuff, seems like your doing really good with that D40!