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I'm having a tough time trying to figure out what was really there, what you did in the field and what you tried in post. It looks like you did some light painting in the field, but perhaps not. There's some severe sharpening/clarifying going on at the top edge of that mound at the left. If...

Something more like this? I hadn't saved the layer work so I had to try and reapply only the frame on the previous edit.

I know we have a lot of Lightroom users here, some on previous versions and I'm sure we all tend to use it very differently. I used to use it for the bulk of my post processing, but since I've incorporated the Nik Collection and Photoshop in my workflow I've relegated it to more of a catalog...

Interesting anecdote about this building, if I can recall things correctly. In the bottom shot you can see an old stone church without a steeple in the background (it almost looks attached). That now houses the Board of Education for the Port Colden School District, which is exactly one...

OK, here's a very quick and dirty comparison of field of view between the Sigma 15mm full frame fisheye and the Rokinon/Samyang 8mm DX fish. All are straight out of the camera with no post processing corrections, only resizing for uploading. Sigma 15mm on a D600, f/9 Rokinon 8mm on a D600...

A couple weeks ago I was introduced to the work of a photographer named Harold Ross and became very intrigued by what I saw, and by his landscapes in particular. In a nutshell, Harold uses external light sources - everything from LED flashlights to larger handheld sources - to paint light that...

Shot this last night, a little collaboration between me and mother nature.

Just for giggles I decided what might be possible playing with the color images. I used Nik HDR Efex to do some tone mapping (would have been better with a RAW file), which really added a bit of drama to the photo. Then I used Color Efex Pro to add Soft Focus, which gives you the feel of...

Same as with Photoshop. For your image I just added a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, desaturated and then used the layer mask to paint back in package and candies. Note the black areas in the white layer mask box in the upper right of this screen shot from PSE 11 - they "mask" the effect of...

I like what you tried to do with the colors, making them pop. Unfortunately, in bringing out the yellow in the package you also overcooked the dirt. This is one of those times where the subject matter requires you to do some selective editing and not just play with the universal settings. If...

I know some folks have talked about using Facebook to promote their photography business. I saw this free download on the Photoshelter blog and thought I'd pass it on. The Photographer?s Guide to Facebook | PhotoShelter

@Millie I asked this before and don't believe you responded. Did you ever contact Sigma to ask about the issue? If it's truly a firmware compatibility issue then I can't believe you can't have been the only one to have experienced it and Sigma would have at least had options for you, even if...

Not many changes, @hark, mainly just additions and refinements to tools that make them more usable. Layout is very similar. Download a trial copy if you want to take a look. LR4 & 5 can co-exist.

@hark - If you don't have Photoshop then I wouldn't expect it to make a lot of sense to you. While not available in Elements, Photoshop allows a layer to be "smart". In other words, in addition to carrying image information it also contains information about how the image was manipulated...

Actually, it depends on how you invoke them. It's possible to stack the filters in a single smart layer, in which case you only incur the overhead once. Truth is, this is something I didn't realize until I tested it for the purposes of this post. I can stack all invocations of Nik in a single...

I wasn't quite sure how to go about this, so what I decided to do was to go thru the edits on a photo and then present the original along with screen shots of the steps. Here's the final image (click to enlarge, right-click and open in a separate window to view in full resolution)... I...

And since I'm posting examples, here's another shot taken yesterday. This has the Profile Correction option invoked... It was post processed using CS6 (light levels and sharpening) and Nik Viveza and Analog Efex. I really like what Analog Efex does with a wet cityscape. Here's the...

I got my Sigma 15mm Fisheye yesterday and have been itching to get out and shoot, so rainy day or not I took a drive to Easton, PA which I figured would present me with some interesting opportunities to shoot with it. Before going, however, I will admit to becoming a little perplexed, and then...

I mentioned this in one of my threads last night, but since I have heard nothing in response I thought I'd just air this out here. I appreciate what you moderators do, but when I come back to a post and see that a moderator has edited it, I would really appreciate it if they could leave a...

So a couple months ago I was lamenting not having a full frame fisheye. I also stated that I was in a quandary over just how "wide" the Sigma 15mm Fish is since it states that it has a 180 degree horizontal view, but photos on the web just didn't seem to suss that out - at least not...