A very disappointing week. I tried to get downtown and get some shots of all the run down areas of town, but I had Liam with me and he was rather uncooperative. So all in all I have very few shots to choose from this week.
I’ve noticed all my photos are pretty weak on contrast, I can get my shadows where I like them, but my highlights are either washed out or muddy any photoshop tips/hints in that direction? It could be a setting on my camera as well, I’ll have to check that out. Anyway, here they are:
This is a hat that’s been sitting in a chair in our sunroom for weeks. Yup. It’s a hat.
This is the base of a lamp post in downtown near the Philips Petroleum building. It’s a nice area that I had never really walked through, I’d like to revisit it at night sometime (once I get a tripod).
I love chipping paint photos, but again, I wish the white could have been a bit whiter.
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23.06.08 at 19:22:19
Carleen
I think I like the second one best because…I used to love to draw perspective and this would be a really easy shot to draw a perspective drawing from.
And for the record that hat has not been there for weeks. Days maybe. Weeks. No.
24.06.08 at 21:53:58
Joshua
Gotta agree with Carleen this week. The lamp base wins. I think it’s the simplicity that I like here. The composition draws my eye right to the center, and although there are leading line elements in #1 that achieve the same effect, I just like the lamp better.
As far as the shadows and highlights go, how are you processing your photos now? Are you processing RAW files in Photoshop? What do you do now to make your minor adjustments?
26.06.08 at 10:59:14
Mike Huxley
Hey josh thanks for commenting! I’ll send this to you email, just in case you don’t follow the comments.
I shoot in RAW and process with the program that came with the camera. I generally don’t mess around with the image in RAW, since I haven’t spent time to learn much of the interface. I should probably process in Photoshop, but I also have to learn how to do that.
Once I get it processed and in to photoshop, I generally add a new Adjustment Layer and use Curves to adjust my blacks and whites. I know about the Channel Mixer method, but I don’t generally have much luck with that method.
Like I said, I’m just not one for fiddling around with that type of stuff.