I've just returned from a phototrip down to Utah. First I went with a group
of seven other photographers into the Needles area of Canyonlands
put together by Jon Fuller of Moab Photo Tours outfitted by OARS.
      While getting many of the shots prepared to use here on my site I found I was using an all new 'workflow', at least for me.
      The photos that you find on my home page, of my trip to the European Alps last July, were all taken with my Sony-DSC-H9, three exposures for each scene as explained in Photoblog Issue 19. When I got home I simply chose the best of the three to begin to work on for this website or for a few prints and a Blurb book (See Issue 21).
      For this trip I did take my Canon XTi and shot a combination of RAW +the highest quality JPEG. I've tucked away all the RAWs for printing possibilities and used only the best quality JPEGs for the site and for a book ... this time the one offered with iPhoto on my new Mac Air laptop.

     I'd like to explain how my workflow turned out to be different from any I have used before. With each of these scenes I wanted to work with the sky area and the foreground seperately. My past usual approach has been to crop first and then make any histogram adjustments. For all of these I did neither! I resized them and then, using the Magic Wand tool in Paint Shop X2, selected the sky area. It took several selections to get all the sky. Then I chose to simply lighten or darken that entire area so that it had plenty of impact. This is a good way to get a good sky if you haven't used a polarizer!! Then I inverted the selection (so that the bottom section was chosen) and made adjustments to this area's histogram or saturation
or   I used the Clarify Tool (PSPv.X2). Finally I used the Unsharp Mask on this selection of the bottom portion of the sceen. (Why sharpen the sky?)
I deselected the selection and used the JPEG Optimizer on the whole scene. At no time, except for Optimizing, did I select the entire image.
Click on each for a larger size.

After gathering the information for the Resource Page for the Wenatchee, WA camera club (Photography Association of Wenatchee - PAW) I've come to the realization that the page is now too long and some entries don't
go into enough detail.
PAW Resource Page

I'll have a chance here to tell more about my personal involvement with photography.
If you haven't visited my web site "Eleanor's Travels", here's the HOME PAGE.

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