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2014-013: Needed to walk one off... before walking one off.

I want to apologize, first to the moderators, and also to other members here ,who have had to endure the recent and public tete a tete between me and another member. I've been in your position many times as a moderator elsewhere and it's a brutal thing to witness. Regardless of whether or not...

Re: help Here's the thing, based on the photo's histogram the exposure is pretty much spot on... Dropping the shutter speed will surely darken the skies and the water, but it will also lose details as seen on the shoreline. Colors will not get more vibrant, only darker. This is not...

We will all be subject to misinterpretation at some point, @wud, it's part of putting yourself out there in your art. From painters to poets to photographers to songwriters (couldn't come up with a 'P' word for that one), you invest a bit of your soul in everything you set free to the public...

Re: help Its a nice, well composed photograph, and given the subject matter I think it's just fine, including the metering. With the bright sun you're going to lose the details in the backlit shoreline in your initial exposure for sure. Your histogram looks fine. So, let me ask you this, are...

2014-12: A couple more single frame shots from this morning. I really liked the shadow coming off this guy. And this is an old house stuck back behind another old house that I've passed thousands of times, but I've not noticed this one until about a month ago. See what happens when you...

2014-012: HDR's Took advantage of some great morning light this morning and ran out to take some pictures. Glad I did. 20 minutes after I left the sun went behind the clouds and we haven't seen it since. Love the morning light. Here are some HDR's. Haven't shot many of these in the last...

Thank you. Sometimes it pays to pull the car onto the shoulder when it's raining, roll down the window, turn on the hazard lights, and just keep inching up until you have the shot and traffic clears. If there's an underlying theme to my shots this year it's, "No excuses, no missed opportunities".

At the risk of sounding like I'm advocating accidental overexposure ::what::, you can try pulling back on the highlights in post to recover some of the detail in the white feathers on the neck. Even in the attached jpeg there's enough information to show that the details are there to be...

Pretty much, yes, though having not been there I wasn't sure how much night sky and steam cloud there was/wasn't. When I did my edit I left a little more...

2014-011: There are a couple trees I am drawn to every time I drive down this one road, but I've never been able to capture them in a way that's pleasing and also non-life threatening (it's a busy road). Freezing temps and leftover snow last night gave way to warm and rainy temps this morning...

Thanks, Glenn. It was a pretty spectacular night. Stanley Clarke has been an idol of mine since I first picked up a bass and got into jazz back in the late 70's, so when I saw he was going to be close by I grabbed tickets and took my nephew who just started playing bass about 6 months ago...

Great points, @aroy.

2014-010: Tonight a little concert photography featuring bass legend Stanley Clarke and 19 year old drum phenom Mike Mitchell in Bethlehem, PA. D800 isn't too bad at ISO 6400 either. :)

Really?! Thing is, without even downloading anything I can discern a difference here... Is it significant? Is it subtle? Who cares, I can see it. Is it because of the higher resolution sensor and not the lack of an anti-aliasing filter? I don't know, but I don't care either. What I do...

Re: Better B&W Conversion Using Multiple Hue/Saturation Layers in Photoshop & Element Kevin, Funny you should ask, because after reviewing and reposting this I thought I should also do one for Lightoom only conversions since I've since learned a great way to do it there. It was something I'd...

2014-009: Lightroom Only I could have sworn something was staring at me...

Better B&W Conversion Using Multiple Hue/Saturation Layers in Photoshop & Elements I posted this as a blog about a year ago and was asked if I could submit it as a tutorial. Here you go... I've always found that the basic level of B&W conversion available in Lightroom and Photoshop to be...

2014-009: Something a little different today. Went down to the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware rivers hoping to catch some ice and other wintery stuff. No such luck. On my way back to my car, however, there was a couple ignoring any idea of what cold there was. Normally not my bag...

Guys, Not for nothing, I love you and appreciate this forum being here, but the way this forum works (or I should say doesn't work) with the reuse of attached images is mind numbing. Feel free to delete the Tutorial I attempted to post that finally ended up as a semi-sarcastic reference to the...