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by dewarp
Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:54 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: A Couple of Namibian Landscapes
Replies: 11
Views: 7067

Re: A Couple of Namibian Landscapes

Thanks for that comment Sury. I got around to printing them yesterday. However, I first applied another curve adjustment to the monochrome version to pull the tones up a bit - in the version above the whites were in the 80% range and I pulled them up by about 10%. That tends to improve the "3D&...
by dewarp
Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:09 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: A Couple of Namibian Landscapes
Replies: 11
Views: 7067

Re: A Couple of Namibian Landscapes

Thanks for the positive comments Valery and Sury. I have not yet printed the two Sperrgebiet images, so I will reserve judgement on which I will use. I'm also leaning towards the monochrome version; but the colour print will probably display some very subtle colour tones (that cannot be seen on a co...
by dewarp
Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:40 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: A Couple of Namibian Landscapes
Replies: 11
Views: 7067

A Couple of Namibian Landscapes

Although I visit the Photoclubalpha forum daily I rarely comment. So, since I had prepared the write-up below anyway, I decided to drop a copy here too. For the month of May our local camera club has the set subject "Solitude". I looked up the word and noted that "solitude" is ge...
by dewarp
Fri Feb 02, 2018 6:55 am
Forum: Aster's Photo Challenge
Topic: Challenge #67: Winner Announcement: Smulnik/Sig
Replies: 6
Views: 48893

Re: Challenge #67: Winner Announcement: Smulnik/Sig

Congratulations Sig. Wonderful images there.

regards- Peter
by dewarp
Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:25 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Happy New Year!
Replies: 5
Views: 3493

Re: Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all. May we all be blessed with good health and happiness throughout 2018 (including the dog).

regards - Peter
by dewarp
Fri Jul 07, 2017 11:26 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: My haitus
Replies: 28
Views: 19121

Re: My Hiatus

Hell Sury, I'm so sorry to hear about your downs. Condolences to you and yours, and I hope that things continue to improve.

Best regards - Peter
by dewarp
Wed Mar 15, 2017 7:17 am
Forum: Digital Workflow and PP
Topic: still avoiding Adobe CC rental
Replies: 9
Views: 12028

Re: still avoiding Adobe CC rental

Well I'm really stuck in the past now. I'm using LR 4. When I tried to upgrade to LR5 Adobe wouldn't allow it, because I bought Ver 4 whilst living in Australia and tried to upgrade now that I'm back in South Africa. I suppose if I'd continued to argue they may have conceded - but I just got annoyed...
by dewarp
Sat Oct 01, 2016 7:29 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Cape Columbine Lighthouse
Replies: 5
Views: 3196

Re: Cape Columbine Lighthouse

Are these long enough exposures that you need tripod? Just curious. Sury Thanks Sury Basically, for these kinds of shot, I set up the camera on a tripod and use a cable release not to prevent blur, but to make it easier to align the images during post-processing. In this particular case I probably ...
by dewarp
Fri Sep 30, 2016 9:06 am
Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
Topic: Cape Columbine Lighthouse
Replies: 5
Views: 3196

Cape Columbine Lighthouse

Our camera club organised a long-weekend outing to Paternoster on the West Coast. There are lots of small fishing vessels there, and we spent some time doing light-painting of those. The weather was brilliant and a good portion of the time there were amazing cloud formations. So, other than for the ...
by dewarp
Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:50 am
Forum: Aster's Photo Challenge
Topic: Challenge #61:"Summer Sun-I walk with Sun on .."- Evaluations Thread-Winner: Peter / Dewarp
Replies: 10
Views: 16541

Re: Challenge #61:"Summer Sun-I walk with Sun on .."- Evaluations Thread-Winner: Peter / Dewarp

Hi Yildiz

Thanks for your additional comments on my skeletal tree image. I nearly missed seeing this!

Normally our dams hit their peak around this time of the year, and Theewaterskloof is currently only 53% full, which is the worst in many years.

regards - Peter
by dewarp
Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:58 am
Forum: Aster's Photo Challenge
Topic: Challenge #61:"Summer Sun-I walk with Sun on .."- Evaluations Thread-Winner: Peter / Dewarp
Replies: 10
Views: 16541

Re: Challenge #61:"Summer Sun-I walk with Sun on my shoulders.."- Winner Announced

Thanks for the work that went into the challenge and the critique Yildiz.

Thanks for the support Sury and Andy.

regards - Peter
by dewarp
Thu Jun 30, 2016 3:40 pm
Forum: Aster's Photo Challenge
Topic: Challenge #61:"Summer Sun-I walk with Sun on my shoulders.."- (Submissions) Ended
Replies: 23
Views: 27332

Re: Challenge #61:"Summer Sun-I walk with Sun on my shoulders.."-ends 02.08.2016-submissions

Thank you, Peter! :) That sounds great. Whenever and wherever you are ready and willing would be fine with us. : ) Best, Yildiz . Hi Yildiz I started to work up a new image, but decided that a detailed description of all of my processes is just too difficult for me to document. I keep reversing wha...
by dewarp
Thu Jun 30, 2016 3:19 pm
Forum: Effects and Art Techniques
Topic: Where does post processing end and art techniques start?
Replies: 5
Views: 27371

Re: Where does post processing end and art techniques start?

A few days after I completed the coloured image in the previous post I decided to prepare a B&W version. I started with the PSD file and generated a number of B&W layers in Topaz Restyle, which were then combined. Once again the work was stored in a new PSD file, and the flattened TIF file s...
by dewarp
Thu Jun 30, 2016 3:13 pm
Forum: Effects and Art Techniques
Topic: Where does post processing end and art techniques start?
Replies: 5
Views: 27371

Where does post processing end and art techniques start?

I promised Yildiz (Aster) I would put up something on my post processing (or art technique) methods. Here goes. The camera club I belong to has a monthly set subject. For one of these I needed an image of an abandoned dwelling. I had previously taken a number of shots of just such a ruin, but most h...
by dewarp
Mon Jun 27, 2016 7:24 am
Forum: Aster's Photo Challenge
Topic: Challenge #61:"Summer Sun-I walk with Sun on my shoulders.."- (Submissions) Ended
Replies: 23
Views: 27332

Re: Challenge #61:"Summer Sun-I walk with Sun on my shoulders.."-ends 02.08.2016-submissions

. Thank you for the profound quality of detailed explanations on the workflow, Peter. : ) Yildiz No worries Yildiz - happy to assist where I can. I just checked to see if I still had a copy of my working PSD file. I usually keep these for a few weeks after editing in case I want to tweak something ...