Welcome to the eighth edition. 9/23/2006
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.
Of course, working with digital captures, we have the chance to experiment
with various croppings, a luxury we never really had when shooting slides.
You can click on each image for a larger size.
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This is
the original capture. When looking at it the first time I don't
see much that I wanted to work with. But I was working on printing
a reflection scene for a friend and decided I'd go back for a second
look. Immediately I decided that I didn't want to use the very
lightest area of the water on the right. No other adjustments have
been made to these examples until the final 'finished' image. |
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| This was my initial crop that I adjusted and printed to show a photography group I belong to.
For so many years we have become used to the 'slide' ratio of a 35mm slide or negative or the square format of some medium format cameras. Ratios have gotten more interesting with stitching software that make long (usually) horizontal panoramas. Even though 8" x10" and 8 1/2" x 11" still isn't the right paper size for slides and negatives we shouldn't continue to think that we have have to fill the paper. Be free to crop any way you want - don't stick with common sizes. |
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| There, a friend
suggested that I should try cropping both the top and the right
side to lessen the effect of a strong diagonal line in the rocks. |
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| This is
an even tighter crop to consider. |
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| Here's my
final crop decision, hoping to really take the viewer's eye into
the reflection. |
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For this final version I've toned down the rocks in the top right and added saturation and a slight bit of sharpening.
Send me you suggestions! E-mail |
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Finally, in this eighth issue of the 'blog' I'd like to recommend Ted Marcus' Virtual Light Table site. Ted and I both use Paint Shop Pro for image adjustments and I became aware of his work at a PSP newsgroup. Several suggested pages are: Adjust your Monitor, and What's a virtual Light Table. If you use Paint Shop Pro you'll appreciate his review found at Ted's Links and Reviews. My favorite group of photos were in his UTAH Parklands Collection beginning here. Then continue exploring as I have done and enjoyed.