JamesBurkett wrote:Photos are very bright and beautiful, congratulations! Tell me, do you use retouching?
Hi James:
If you're asking me...
The web cam pic from Apgar lookout had nothing done to it.
As for my images on my thread(s)...
If I post them as what I call "snaps" or "snapshots" I don't usually do anything to them other than resizing and maybe brighten the shadow areas.
Images I consider "nice" I resize to 1000-1200 pixels wide from 6000 so they'll fit on the chat pages.
Then depending on the image I'll do one or more of the following in Photoshop Elements:
Apply the "haze removal" tool, the "sharpener" tool, lighten the shadows, darken highlights, and increase saturation.
I don't like to go overboard with the saturation because I don't care for the "unnatural" look that gives to an image.
An exception to that saturation rule would be an image like this one below where I wanted to bring out the color in the rocks in Lake McDonald.
But yet not make the blue sky or green in the trees look weird.
Most of my posted images are
uncropped. I try to frame the images as best I can when shooting them.
If I print them, then they will usually have to be cropped.
pete
The horizontal dimension of this image is original and uncropped.
I had to crop the bottom of the image slightly to get most of my tripod and camera's shadow out of the frame...although you can still see a bit of the camera shadow at the bottom. I wanted to retain as much of the rocks as possible.