Search results

Nice Fred. I assume you did that in PS.

Not sure I can replace the sky smoothly given all the sky peeking through the tree branches. At least not at my level of skill.

I took this photo at a local abbey. It is a beautiful spot on the Cooper river. I have done a lot of diving in the river near this old plantation turned into basically a retirement home for monks. Anyway, I love the look of this small body of water on the grounds. In the RAW file the sky is very...

I didn't watch the video either. My conclusions were based on running a couple images through both. From my limited experience, I think that LR denoise is very good, and has a slightly more natural look than Topaz. LR does, however, lose some detail in the process and is extremely slow. If you...

I've had the RAM upgrade for over a month now. It has not substantially increased the speed of LR, but it has cured the issue with the intermittent running extremely slowly and locking up. I think I can live with it at this point, but when I next have to replace this computer, I will probably...

I have owned and used a number of them myself. I'm old enough to remember hearing them come over the intercom at school and announce that President Kennedy had been shot. Unfortunately, I lived in the wrong part of the world to have seen the first Dr Who episode air two days later.

On a more serious note, I dug through some pictures I took earlier this year and found a suitable, noisy photograph. I processed it without noise reduction. Here is a heavy crop of it. And here is the same photo run through Topaz Denoise AI then editing in LR with copy and paste of the edits...

I think calmer is correctly spelled. It's just the "e" is poorly written. "Fnid" is not a word, I think you'll find.

For context my wife's name is Denise, and I would love to make a humorous comment on this, but I enjoy living too much.

It's running around a thousand bucks at Nikon store and B&H, probably most outlets will be selling it for around this price. They also have the Z7II and the D850 on sale. The Z5 can be had with the 24-200 for around $1700.

Since your grandfather took it, I would consider it a family photo.

The art world is a strange place. Much of what passes for art is incomprehensible to the average person. The other issue is what is considered permissible to produce a great photographic image. The level of manipulation that most of us use to produce our final photos would likely have been...

And another from this shoot.

But the light source was "fine weather".

Thought I'd try this one in B&W. I think the color is better. Didn't get the tonal gradations I was quite looking for, but it does have a certain look.

It is, after all, a well lit subject.

Good job. I would recommend bracketing the shot. Since you are set up on a tripod and the subject won't be flying away, why not just put your Z5 in auto bracket and take a series. You might find that a different setting gives you different results. I would even try an HDR merge to see what happens.

Here's me and my dad. He's the one wearing glasses. My wife has some great pictures from the 19th century. Unfortunately, I don't have access to them right now.

What a neat old photo to have. If it weren't for the cars, you could believe it was taken last year. It's amazing how well Kodachrome holds up over the years. I frequently underexposed Kodachrome by around a 1/2 a stop to get a little more saturation. I remember one of the few, if only contests...