Don's Old Daily Dabblings

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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The Nic Collection is addictive. Enjoying the HDR tools. HDR generally is overcooked for my taste but Nic gives you easy controls to get it just where you want. Finally figured out how to open all in ACR together and apply the same correction there and the open in PS. Once open then I can load all open files in Nic HDR and process them the way I want and then Nic sharpness and noise reduction. Still working on the proper workflow for the process.\

 

[Dave_W]

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The Nic Collection is addictive. Enjoying the HDR tools. HDR generally is overcooked for my taste but Nic gives you easy controls to get it just where you want. Finally figured out how to open all in ACR together and apply the same correction there and the open in PS. Once open then I can load all open files in Nic HDR and process them the way I want and then Nic sharpness and noise reduction. Still working on the proper workflow for the process.\

I tried to warn you...Nik plug-in's are a one way street. Once you get a taste of their sweet sweet honey there's no going back.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Black & White conversion done by Silver Efix 2

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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My morning walk

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Really liked this one. Boy playing with parakeets

 

[Dave_W]

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I really like the sharpness of the bird eye image. Very cool!!!

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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I really like the sharpness of the bird eye image. Very cool!!!

They always say to focus on the eye. He was right up against a chain link fence do I could not get a good picture of the entire bird so I shot just the eye. I liked how it came out though.

Used Nic on it too.

 

[Roy1961]

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cool shot Don, is the sweat from fear??

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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cool shot Don, is the sweat from fear??

LOL, No I don't think so. He was having a blast getting the birds to sit on his hands while he was walking around. It was a lot cooler today than it has been but it is still 89°

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Got to looking at the chimp shot and I like the framing on it but the pose was so nice and the expression was good so I did a portrait crop on it.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Playing with Nic Tools again and this time it is with the HDR section

 

[Marcel]

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I like your Nik HDR shot of the clouds with the blue sky. Very nice post processing Don.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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I like your Nik HDR shot of the clouds with the blue sky. Very nice post processing Don.

Thank you. I am working on getting the fine balance of the tonal range and bright colors and not being over cooked. Not that easy.

 

[Marcel]

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Thank you. I am working on getting the fine balance of the tonal range and bright colors and not being over cooked. Not that easy.

It's always a work in progress. As long as you're still enjoying the learning.

 

[RockyNH_RIP]

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Don, I like them both... Nice Job!

 

[Roy1961]

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both great shots Don, nice

 

[Alan]

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Got to looking at the chimp shot and I like the framing on it but the pose was so nice and the expression was good so I did a portrait crop on it.

Really like this guy. First chance I have had to look around here all week.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Here is the strange shot of the day. When I am shooting Panoramas or Bracket shots for HDR I generally shoot a shot of the ground in between each series. that way when I am going to edit them I have a reference for which shots go together. Well here is one of those ground shots.

Yes it is late. I need to go to bed.

 

[mikew_RIP]

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Great minds think alike,if ime testing something i use a shot of my feet as a break in shots.

mike

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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I just thought it might be a tip that someone might not have thought about yet. Sometimes i will shoot several sequences of the same shot with only slight changes so the foot shot helps to separate them. I figured that out the first time I did that kind of shooting and then came home and started to edit them.