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Makes perfect sense. Thanks.

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Another cool little tip... once you desaturate, you can always go into Image --> Adjustments --> Hue/Saturation and change the colors of the colored objects.

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mmm, nice pics :tu

back in a month with some of mine :)

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Got my T1i just in time for my trip to New Orleans. Enjoy the shots...
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l..._Streetcar.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l..._PeaceYall.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...LA_TieDown.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...LA_TugBoat.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...reoleQueen.jpg

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http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...wnCarriage.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...garBowlBus.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l..._BourbonSt.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...LA_CigarCo.jpg

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l.../NOLA_Dawg.jpg

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http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/a...ten-pathes.jpg

http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/a...n-pathes-2.jpg

http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/a...n-pathes-3.jpg
BBQ anyone :D

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beautiful shots guys. I aspire to be able to take photos such as these. Thanks for sharing

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I've been doing this the hard way apparently, I'm still a little dense on PS so pictorial lesson would be great :D

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great shots in this thread. Thanks all for sharing.

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Me too.
I have Elements.
Would love to figure out how to do B&W with some things in color.
I guess it is a "layers" thing?

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Thats the way I was doing it make a black and white layer and then mask it revealing the berries but that is time consuming

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I can see joining this thread was a very bad mistake on my part... I havn't even dug up any images and I can't keep my hands off...

Depends STRONGLY who you ask, and what you are doing with it.

DBAll's tutorial is great for when there is lots of intricate detail that you don't feel like masking around bit by bit with the brush. It's super fast and effective.

I prefer to use layers and a brush mask because it tends to capture a little more of the full color range and some other natural colors. For example, a red berry usually looks more natural if you brush in the brown spot on the berry, and the little green bud. But this takes TIME, LOTS OF TIME.

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You can use layers... keep a color one and desaturate one, have the color one on the bottom and the grey on top. Then select the bottom layer, grab the color, go to the desaturated layer and delete it (so the color shows through), etc, etc, etc....

or you can do this as I typed a few pages back... it will grab the things the color selector failed to like spectrrr said if you use the lasso tool and the shift button (second paragraph):

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One of the shots I took on a recent trip to Havana. This is a view from my casa, overlooking Centro.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2791/...767185dc_o.jpg

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Some band work I did for an up&coming Christian artist. Not my usual cup of joe and feels more like an edgy senior picture, but it was fun and he got what he needed :)


http://cardullophotography.com/image...20EDIT%203.jpg


http://cardullophotography.com/image...20EDIT%205.jpg


http://cardullophotography.com/image...20EDIT%201.jpg


http://cardullophotography.com/image...20EDIT%204.jpg

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mmm, nice.... :tu

one day I hope to visit the island.... tho maybe I'll wait a few more years til my Spanish is passable :)

This suggestion comes from someone who is admittedly VERY biased towards over-contrasty images, so take it with a rain of salt: Have you considered bumping the contrast of the city portion to make it more vibrant, or were you going for more of the grungy appearance?

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GIANT and beautiful Catholic church about 30min from my house in OH

http://cardullophotography.com/image...20(Medium).JPG


http://cardullophotography.com/image...8Medium%29.JPG

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The Journalist in me as always loved this sequence of images, even if the color and composition can leave something to be desired.


http://cardullophotography.com/image...20(Medium).JPG


http://cardullophotography.com/image...8Medium%29.JPG

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I really love this pic :tu

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wow Francis,your images are super awesome!do you have a blog or a web?

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Thanks - no blog, and website is ANCIENT, so nothing really to look at there. I retired from photography last year to pursue a family business, however I'm about 4 years behind on getting any images posted online :)
I've recently started the slow process of moving my entire collection online to http://cardullo.zenfolio.com/portfolio as a backup... but there is NOTHING To see at the moment... give me a while (a year :r) and I'll get a portfolio of past work posted :)

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Don't see an issue with color and composition at all. Your candids remind me of mine when I did wedding photography. These photos are alive and the color is clearly attributed to your control of aperture and bounce lighting or diffused lighting.
I swear I am looking at my stuff. Unfortunately, mine was all done with medium format (Hasselblad 500CM and Mamiya C330) and is antiquated. I would have to scan all that stuff. I have very little in the digital world as I left the business around 14 years ago when I relocated out of state, when digital was just starting to take over for wedding photographers. Today, most of what I have done involves my grandson. I burned out doing over 1,200 weddings in my time, in a 10 year period, and didn't want to see a camera for a good while, until the joy of my life came along a couple of years ago.

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WOW! I just finished reading through this thread and you take great pictures.

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Lots of similarities. Mine, old school looking as I AM old.:r
Yours more modern in spite of B&W.
Both of us seem to enjoy fisheyes, although I generally limited my use of it for shots like this, that incorporated an impressive background. You don't want to know how much I paid for that Hasselblad fisheye. I think I must still be paying for it 20 years later.
Nice to see stuff that reminds me of my days chasing brides around in limos.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...o/SCAN0008.jpg

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...o/SCAN0009.jpg

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:tpd: I havn't read the whole thread yet... but the few I've seen have been great :tu

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I Love the fisheye lens effect :tu, a fisheye[undecided] and the Nikon 18-24mm wide angle are the top 2 lenses on my wishlist

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:O That would have absolutely burned me out! Always good to have that much business however ;)

I learned ever so briefly on my father's hassy system (he had retired 10 years prior but kept the gear), then ended up selling it to finance the shift to Canon digital. You're assessment of a bounce flash is correct. I started in news journalism and that influenced my wedding work considerably. Lighting was kept small and on camera, high ISO and available light whenever possible, I never even owned a tripod if you can believe it.


I know exactly how much you paid for that Hasselblad fisheye ;) I SOLD one of the Hasselblad SuperWide cameras to pay for my digital system. (although at the time my father picked it up at a pawn shop for $100)
Thanks for sharing, love the first pic, reminds me so much of the beauty of film. Can't get that kind of a shot out of the camera in digital, have to head into Photoshop to make it happen. Quite doable, but prohibitively time consuming considering the last wedding I shot was 3900 images in one day (average wedding hovered around 2000 images), so I had to pick and choose my photoshop battles .... I LOVE B&W images, LOVE em. There are not very many shots I wouldn't prefer to see in B&W. Fisheye shots probably only accounted for 1% of my images for the day... just a couple of the church/reception hall etc to capture the scope of things... but I always considered the shots to be indispensable for capturing the story of the day. I also had a 14mm aspherical non-fish that I loved even more than a fish on many shots.

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Are you on a cropped sensor or full frame?

on a cropped sensor, I would highly recommend one of the APS-C sized 10-24 or 12-22 type lenses before I got a fisheye. (translates to a 16-35 range on full frame). Fish is fun, but you can use a superwide sooo much more often.

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Great pictures everyone thanks for posting them.


Chris.....

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Superwide is certainly neat.
Fisheye is not for every shot in my opinion. There are many instances where I just don't think it works well at all.
I always tried to mine where I could keep the main subject of my photo as normal as possible, while distorting the surroundings. That was just my personal preference.

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I'm on a cropped sensor if I'm not mistaken... I have a Nikon D90.

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I had a canon 10-22mm that I absolutely loved before I switched ot the full frame 5D. I would take a close look at one of these guys:
(sorry, not up on current lenses so I can't make a specific recommendation)

http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/s...&cat=28&page=1

http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/s...&cat=28&page=1

http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/s...&cat=37&page=1

http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/s...&cat=37&page=1

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I adjusted the levels in PS and looked at boosting the contrast but it wasn't authentic. I'm all for moderately tweaking an image but in this case, realism was the overriding factor. Anyways, this was from the JPEG file- I haven't done any work from the RAW file yet. BTW thanks for the critique. :)

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Thank you.

A couple more just for fun.

http://m-mason.smugmug.com/Machines/...3_fP6RZ-XL.jpg

http://m-mason.smugmug.com/Machines/...7_QKxGt-XL.jpg



-Roland.

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Say What!? I disagree. What people do in Photoshop these days (besides the crazy chit) is comparative to what you did in the dark room back in the days of film.

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No argument there, none at all! But film does have a different "feel" to it. Don't get me wrong, I love my photoshop and will never give up digital, but its just not the same as film.

Bear in mind when I say "not the same as film" its like saying a Domican cigar is not the same as a Cuban. They'll never be the same, but fortunately there's some damned fine Domican cigars that many would argue are better than many Cubans (of course a matter of opinion that we don't want to discuss in this thread!!!!!!!!) but I think you get the idea. "Not film" does not equal "bad", just unmistakeably different in many cases.

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So you don't think that 'feel' is more related to the direction 'art' is headed these days? I have seen some EPIC digital photos printed out that I think still had that 'feel'

And IMHO a photo is not a photo till its printed.

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http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/a...rk/icewall.jpg

http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/icewall2.jpg

A couple of shots from the rock wall by the river

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mmmm, now that indeed takes the conversation in an interesting direction :)

I suppose if you want to break an image down to its bare, simplistic elements, there are only four components to the 'look' of an image.
1) the composition of the image
2) the medium it is captured with.
3) the processing applied to it.
4) the medium it is displayed on.
I specifically used "displayed on" as my verb of choice. What is printing? A glossy color print? A B&W double weight fiber? canvas? pixels;)?
It's all art, so then I would expand your definition to say that your vision of the photo is not complete unless it is displayed on a specific printed medium.

Different types of photos show milder or more pronounced telltale signs of the equipment they are produced on. With enough processing, anything can be made to look like anything else (Anyone seen the movie Avatar lately?). The point being if I take 100 random scenes and pictures from a film camera and 100 random pictures and scenes from a digital camera and handed them to you in 2 stacks, could you tell me which stack was digital and which stack was film if the stacks were fresh-from-the-camera un processed? I believe the answer is often "yes" to that question.

Sure, you can process the images from a digital camera to look like film... sorta, kinda, maybe.... but some are easier to do that with than others.... and crap, I'm rambling... lets try a simple summary: If you're art direction is to mimic film with digital, you can do it, but it can take work, lots of it, because you're starting with a product that most definitely is not film, the uncut image from a digital is very different than film.

I know a guy that painted our hallway at home. It's drywall.... but he's such an awesome painter that it looks like wood, even when you're a foot away.
If a digital photo needs to look like film, it can... but it sure didnt start out looking that way.

Really, i'm not sure if that made any sense... this has been a welcome diversion to what has been one of the hardest days in a long time for me, but i'm pretty fried at this point and don't know if that will have any sense when I read it again in the morning.....

(hope that doesn't sound too adversarial, just having a little friendly banter on the subject :))

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Your right media does make a difference. My fav is canvas, I have printed for several clients on canvas and they have been by far my favorite. But I did print on brushed aluminum once and that was pretty sweet too ;)

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Brushed aluminum.... now that sounds like a very interesting print! Did any of the texture show through into the image?

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Yes it was sweet, this is not the print but an example

http://www.millerslab.com/files/info...neartmural.jpg

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I personally see the differences between film and digital.
I am not referring to 35 mm. I am referring to medium format, 6X6 or 6X7.
The shots of the church and the bride were done on film.
While photoshop allows some amazing things that back in my days was done in the lab, to me, the differences are stark.
That is not to say one is better than the other. I like them both as times change. However, I am old school. In my days, the picture was created in the camera. I used various expensive filters to create my effects and I had to know what I was doing to get the proper exposure, as I didn't have the opportunity to see the final product until after it returned from the lab. I am not saying that was a better way at all as I would rather have it as it is today but certainly the art was emphasized in a different part of the photo job, on the front end. We had no automation for our cameras either. All manual. That is what was done with those wedding shots.

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So I am trying to understand the difference between "full" sensors and "Cropped" sensors.
And basically from what I understand now a "full" sensor is (as I read) 24mm x 36mm where as a "cropped" sensor is actually smaller. If you compare the two they may both have 12 million pixels but the "cropped" sensor will have them crammed on a smaller space. The full sensor seemed to be at an advantage in most cases with the exception of a "zoom" factor that a cropped lens gives a particular lens.

this is the article I read Full Frame Sensor vs Crop Sensor

Any comments or suggestions on understanding the difference?



Here's a recent pic of a beer I had for Breakfast!
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_sctUupuw_Zk/Sz...0/IMG_9596.JPG

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Definitely disagree on that point, to an extent.....
Cropped frames make wide angle harder, while telephoto easier.
Because the image is coming from the center of the lens area, "soft" lenses on the outside can suddenly appear sharper.
Due to pixel density, full sensors tend to have less noise than comparable cropped sensors in the same generation.
I switched from cropped to full and could not be happier.

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Posted these in the NC purchases but figured I'd better put them here too...

http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/a...Maduro654T.jpg
This shot is unaltered off the camera shot at 0.60 seconds freehand [took 8 tries but I got it :tu]

http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/a...duro654T-2.jpg
This one I added a little exposure to it through RAW editing in PS original was just a little dark

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Picture of the property line of our cabin in Murphy, NC.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...0/DSC_2991.jpg

And a Blue Spruce that was relocated to our front yard.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...BlueSpruce.jpg

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This weekend, I plan to head out for some sunset and/or sunrise pictures over a local lake. Let's see what some real glass on this sensor can really do (in my ridiculously amateur hands)....

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A couple more from my adventures. A sunset to start (obligatory).

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...810/Sunset.jpg

And the saddest thing in the world! The last muffin all alone. :sad

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...lastmuffin.jpg

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These are very cool. I really like how the green plant snuck in there at the top.

Contrast of the green (life) and the ice (withering/death) Is a fun concept. Sure I over think things but the main point is I like it. :tu