ping Tony Cooper

He<>re is a landscape photo taken in Sanford, which is in your area.
this photographer is a native of FL and does some amazing work.


<http://www.deborahsandidge.com/Photography/North-America/20962017_8D4DLF#!i=2016272360&k=cQKDMrv>

 

I know Deborah, or at least have talked to her on several occasions.
She and I are members of the same camera club, and she's given
presentations to both camera clubs that I belong to.

The photo of the old dock was taken at Lake Monroe just up the road
from me. Sanford borders Lake Monroe. Steamboats used to tie up at
that dock.

Here's a playful thing that I did of part of that dock:
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Photography/Miscellanea/i-xmrr3nr/0/XL/2011-09-06-3-XL.jpg

Deb's into two areas that I don't follow, though. She does a lot of
infrared photography and has written a book on that subject.

http://blog.deborahsandidge.com/p/book.html

She's also big on something you'd like: what she calls digital art.
She uses a lot of texture overlays and abstract rendering of photos.
Too artsy-craftsy for me, though.


She's good at night photography and has led some of the club's field
trips on this subject. She's very helpful when she leads a group.

She, and some of the other members of the camera club, run a lot of
photography tours where you get to go to some place with good photo
opportunities and get individualized photography instruction. Her
photos on that website from Cuba are from one of the trips. Her next
one is to somewhere in Canada. She announced it at a meeting.

 

I met her at NECCC on Sunday, where she was a presenter. She quite
willing to share information. I had a long discussion with her about
infrared. Had I not been out practicing long exposures today, I would
have mentioned that to the Duck. It seems that with a lot of cameras
today, it is not necessary to do a conversion, just get a filter, which
I ordered.

 

I like it.


Thanks, I saw that. What surprised me is that now some cameras don't
need conversion.
But she does some phenomenal work.

 

I read her page and I noted these words; "Though a bit more expensive,
the benefits of an infrared converted camera outweigh the cost".

With that in mind, the $275 cost for converting my D70 isn't too bad,
considering the D70 isn't worth much more than $100 anymore.

 

BTW; since you have been "pinged", how did your PSE class go, and did
you check my PSE-9 rendition of the bearded old fart?

 

Porn Star Experience ??

 

Your point of view seems to be locked into an Eliot Spitzer lens.

 

For a while the highest paid job in politics was working under Elliot
Spitzer.

Seriously, what is PSE?

 

Photoshop Elements. The current version is PSE-11, Tony and I have
copies of PSE-9 bundled with some other purchase. I can't quite
remember what mine came with, my Wacom tablet, or something else.

This is the B&W conversion of Tony's shot, I did in PSE-9 just using
what was available, no plug-ins or filters.
After ACR processing and conversion, I made this rendition using the
"Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer and multiple passes with the
"brightness/Contrast" adjustment layer. For each pass I inverted the
layer mask to "black" and painted in where I wanted the adjustment with
a white brush, tweaking the adjustment once I had the area I wanted
fixed painted.
I used nothing else in PSE other than an 8x10 crop.

< https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/2013-07-06-11-PSEw.jpg >

 

My bad. I thought you were responding to me. Yes Tony Cooper was giving
a PSE presentation.

As to the conversion, parts of the beard look burned out.

 

The class was successful, I guess. The people stayed, the people took
notes, the people made nice comments. Dunno what they retained.

I was a bit surprised about the misconceptions some had. A couple
weren't interested in the beginning because "Elements doesn't have
layers". Some thought Elements doesn't have Curves. (It does, but
not quite the same as the full Photoshop) Some who have been using
Elements didn't know about a lot of things.

I did see your Elements version of the old man. I thought I commented
on it.

 

No, I have PSE-9, but it wasn't a bundle buy. I bought it straight up
as a gift for my daughter. Adobe allows two computers to use it, so
it's on her computer and on my computer. I installed it on mine in
order to be able to teach her the program and provide screen shots.

My Wacom came with very abbreviated version of Nik's package. It was
almost worthless, so I uninstalled it long before I bought the full
Nik package.

I have Elements 5.0, but I don't remember if that was a bundle or
what. It's on the computer, but I haven't opened it in several years.

That's a very good conversion, but it is the result of a far more
complex process than I used for the class.

 

Just letting them know there are layers, adjustment layers, and layer
masks in Elements would have (should have) been well worth their time.

 

Some people brought in images on thumbdrives and wanted to see how I
processed them in Elements. One person had a photograph of a
sunflower with several of the petals completely blown out, but the
rest looked good. He wanted me to bring back the color in the petals,
but I told him there was no color there...the areas were just devoid
of any color.

He said he thought that "Photoshop" could bring back anything, and was
quite disappointed. I told I could fake it, and selected some good
petals from the other part, pasted them in, rotated and placed them,
put the selection behind the image, did a layer mask cut-out to show
them, and presented him with a perfect sunflower.

At tonight's regular meeting, we had a presentation by a nature
photographer who does a lot bird photos. He was talking about
metering and showed an image of a white bird that was blown out and
said the image couldn't be improved.

My sunflower person piped up "Tony could!".

The nature photographer was Jack Rogers:
http://www.pbase.com/paleojack who does some nice work. While he does
tack-sharp photography for the most part, the one of his I liked is:
http://www.pbase.com/paleojack/image/72729662

 

You might like some of Denise Ipplito's work;

<http://deniseippolito.com/blurs/>

 

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A graphic designer once told me that one of his clients had a photo
of a car, and asked him to erase the door areas in Photoshop, in
order to reveal the interior upholstery of the car.

 

That's why they invented layers and layer masks.

 

As long as you remember to tick 'reveal hidden layers'