Re: Photography Thread
 

couple cigar shots (straight from the camera... no PS work done)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/...a3b40dd4_o.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/...55449391_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/...34474a67_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2715/...52a0d92a_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2747/...d992f803_o.jpg

Re: Photography Thread
 

continued...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2696/...dbb78b1a_o.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/...7aa4b05b_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2594/...cc39e8b7_o.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/...d8fa9808_o.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/...185fe9cb_o.jpg

Re: Photography Thread
 

Looking great Dan! Depth of field is better but id still like to see it opened up a little more.

Re: Photography Thread
 

Nice Dan!

Re: Photography Thread
 

Very classy photos there!

Re: Photography Thread
 

Just a little test run have not had a lot of time this weekend

http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/a...dom/Berrys.jpg

Re: Photography Thread
 

Re: Photography Thread
 

How did you make everything gray except the berries?

Re: Photography Thread
 

such a great smoke!

Re: Photography Thread
 

The easiest way to do it is to open up the pic in photoshop or GIMP and find the color you want to preserve. These instructions are for PS, Gimp is pretty much the same, however.

Select it with the magic wand (and if you uncheck the "contiguous" box, it will select everything of that color)... you can fine tune what you select by using the lasso tool and the shift button to add to your selections or the alt button to subtract from it if you grab too much... zooming in is very helpful in this process.

Anyway, once you select everything of the color you want, right click and choose "select inverse" (you have to be on the "rectangle" select tool to find that in the right click menu... you could also "select inverse" from Select --> Select Inverse... or you could use [ctrl]+[shift]+[i]) and then go to Image --> Adjustments --> Desaturate.

That's how to do it. If this isn't clear enough, I can do a little pictoral tutorial for it... it's damned easy.

I was teaching one of Shell's young cousins how to do this and here's the result of her attempt... only took about 15 minutes her first time (note that she also grabbed the flowers on the lapel, also):

http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/w...ingflowers.jpg

Re: Photography Thread
 

Makes perfect sense. Thanks.

Re: Photography Thread
 

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

Re: Photography Thread
 

mmm, nice pics :tu

back in a month with some of mine :)

Re: Photography Thread
 

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

Re: Photography Thread
 

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

Re: Photography Thread
 

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

Re: Photography Thread
 

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

Re: Photography Thread
 

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

Re: Photography Thread
 

great shots in this thread. Thanks all for sharing.

Re: Photography Thread
 

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?