3 in the rain Yosemite

[jwear]

This was a fantastic time with great folks ,to all next year there is talk of a trip be ready

[jwear]

This was a fantastic time with great folks ,to all next year there is talk of a trip be ready the tree

[jwear]

the tree THIS shot came at a great cost to me it was raining a lot and I ran after this guy watching him not were I was putting my feet ,as i am shooting this I am ankle deep in water :dunno

[DavidTO]

Jeff,

Your composition has improved so much. Those are some really nice shots. The area I see for you to work on next is post-processing. Those shots would benefit greatly from some better post. Curves work, mostly.

[jwear]

Jeff,

Your composition has improved so much. Those are some really nice shots. The area I see for you to work on next is post-processing. Those shots would benefit greatly from some better post. Curves work, mostly.thanks David I was hoping to get this kind of feed back [my skill with the computer is well know by all:D :rofl ] It was nice meeting you after all this time and glad the info helped you thru. night. I wish it would have worked out to drive up and we had more time but what a great trip it was :thumb .nik gave me some books to get to help me in post so now :dunno Thanks David for the kind words I know my shots will not be as good as everyones but I did work hard on composition so your encouragement does mean a lot ,you are one of the very first to welcome me here and I never foget . Thanks again maybe one day we can not shoot and you can give me a computer tip or two ,[I am taking a night course in tpying :rofl

[DavidTO]

thanks David I was hoping to get this kind of feed back [my skill with the computer is well know by all:D :rofl ] It was nice meeting you after all this time and glad the info helped you thru. night. I wish it would have worked out to drive up and we had more time but what a great trip it was :thumb .nik gave me some books to get to help me in post so now :dunno Thanks David for the kind words I know my shots will not be as good as everyones but I did work hard on composition so your encouragement does mean a lot ,you are one of the very first to welcome me here and I never foget . Thanks again maybe one day we can not shoot and you can give me a computer tip or two ,[I am taking a night course in tpying :rofl


I'd love to go out and shoot with you. Come out to Thousand Oaks, and we can hike with Nik and shoot some landscapes! We'll make everyone else jealous, because of our mad skillz.

[bfjr]

hey what about me I'm a local yokel, can I go ? :dunno

[DavidTO]

hey what about me I'm a local yokel, can I go ? :dunno

hmmmm...


OK!

[Sam]

Jeff, I'm not a genus with PS, but I can do some basic stuff, and took a FAST crack at some more prosessing. A lot more can be done. This took me about 30 seconds. Hope you don't mind.

Sam

[ehughes]

Very cool Jeff :thumb I really like that 1st one

Ed

[Phil U.]

Jeff,

Your composition has improved so much. Those are some really nice shots. The area I see for you to work on next is post-processing. Those shots would benefit greatly from some better post. Curves work, mostly.

:agree The hard part is the composition (this is where I suffer). Once you have that (and you definitely do here) you can always go back at some point and re-do the post. I've gone back to several of my earlier photos as I've learned new things in PS just to update them and see how much better they look.

Good work here - The first is nice. I like the dedication it took to get the umbrella shot :wink

[SusanB]

THIS shot came at a great cost to me it was raining a lot and I ran after this guy watching him not were I was putting my feet ,as i am shooting this I am ankle deep in water :dunno
Jeff,

I like all three as I really get the feel for the rainy, foggy, overcast environment. Nice composiitons too.:clap :clap :clap

Susan

[jwear]

Phil Susan David Ed Sam [for making my shot better ] thank you for the kind words they means a lot really . Phil that is a very good idea I am going to start an album of shots that have potential [ small album ] until i learn PS :thumb

[Steve Cavigliano]

All 3 are very cool Jeff :thumb :thumb


My favorite is the woodpecker tree and Yosemite Falls :clap I just loved that little meadow :lust I also have to agree with the poster who commented about your composition improving :thumb


Steve

[jwear]

All 3 are very cool Jeff :thumb :thumb


My favorite is the woodpecker tree and Yosemite Falls :clap I just loved that little meadow :lust I also have to agree with the poster who commented about your composition improving :thumb


Steve thanks Steve a :thumb from you a good thing to me , and the comp. improving lots of help from the dgrin family, thank you all

[Harryb]

Hey Jeff,

Al three are good shots. I love the comp on the 3rd shot with the person giving the viewer some perspective on the size of the surroundings. :thumb

[jwear]

Hey Jeff,

Al three are good shots. I love the comp on the 3rd shot with the person giving the viewer some perspective on the size of the surroundings. :thumb thanks Harry I like that shot myself froze my feet that night just to get it there was only one bad thing about the trip -------you did not make it :cry thanks agin Harry if not for your kind works a few months back i may have given it up

[MHughes]

Hi Jeff, very nice shots I have been watching but so busy so I am taken a couple moments because I have them to say wow, you got some very nice shots. I had alot of fun taken pictures with you and was so nice meeting you.
Connie just loves her bears thanks again. Of course all she talks about is seeing the black bear and how nice you were.

[iluvhim]

I love the way that you can turn something so simple into a beautiful photograph! I need more work on that special touch! Lol. :D

[Nikolai]

the tree
And I agree with David: just a little postprocess would help tremendously!
I took the liberty to play with this tree shot of yours:
http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/22230743-L.jpg

It took me like 30 seconds total: slight adjustment of black point in Levels and very mild S-curve in Curves - and look, how much more "wet" the tree and the grass is, and how much more distinct the falls are..

HTH
Cheers, partner!

[Nikolai]

This was a fantastic time with great folks ,to all next year there is talk of a trip be ready
I like this shot a lot!
Man, I miss "white water rafting"..

[jwear]

Hi Jeff, very nice shots I have been watching but so busy so I am taken a couple moments because I have them to say wow, you got some very nice shots. I had alot of fun taken pictures with you and was so nice meeting you.
Connie just loves her bears thanks again. Of course all she talks about is seeing the black bear and how nice you were.Missy i missed this before ,thank you very much I would say that the three of you really made the trip for me .I can not put it words the fun I had [poverty of vocabulary] .Connie is just a great kid and fun to be with ,I wish Hunter could have come along but one can not everything say hi to Ed and Connie for me and lets go bear hunting again:clap :thumb thanks for the kind words on the pics but as Nik ,Sam and David have said and showen I need to ps :D Nik and Sam both helped my photos thanks guys

[jwear]

And I agree with David: just a little postprocess would help tremendously!
I took the liberty to play with this tree shot of yours:
http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/22230743-L.jpg

It took me like 30 seconds total: slight adjustment of black point in Levels and very mild S-curve in Curves - and look, how much more "wet" the tree and the grass is, and how much more distinct the falls are..

HTH Cheers, partner! if i knew how thats what I would have done please give me a little show and tell when we go shooting my PICTURE looks lots better thanks Nik :thumb

[jwear]

I like this shot a lot!
Man, I miss "white water rafting".. thanks again Nik :thumb that's funny his mom will not let me take him [hunter] rafting she is afraid some will happen but she lets me drive him around :dunno lots more dangerous :huh

[ginger_55]

I love the new falls version w the curves and stuff added. I would love to see the umbrella done that way, too.

I just noticed that there are two falls. Cool.

g (good shot, just a bump in post, it seemed)

[USAIR]

Very cool shots:):
:clap :clap :clap :clap :clap
Thanks
Fred

[jwear]

I love the new falls version w the curves and stuff added. I would love to see the umbrella done that way, too.

I just noticed that there are two falls. Cool.

g (good shot, just a bump in post, it seemed) I am with you Ginger I think I am going to work as a team with Nik :D :rofl all 3 needed work

[Nikolai]

if i knew how thats what I would have done please give me a little show and tell when we go shooting my PICTURE looks lots better thanks Nik :thumbhere:

Open your picture in PS
Hit Ctrl+L (Levels)
You'll see that the left part of the histogram is flatlined. Drag the left marker (it's referred to as blackpoint) a bit to the right, to the beginning of the non-zero data. Since you have the data all the way to the right (white), you don't need to adjust the right marker (called whitepoint)
Click OK
Hit Ctrl+M (Curves)
Drag the upper-right 75% point just a tad up, drag lower-left 25% point just a tad down,
Click OK
That's all folks! Takes way longer to type than to do:-)
HTH