Marnie, Great shot and yes, a picture postcard. I see where the colors are a bit unreal, but you can work that out later. Regards, Bob S.
On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the beginning of my SW I allotted two day for fun and photography at > Yosemite. > > This is not my best shot, I think, but the most encompassing one, i.e., > showing the biggest area. Valley View, except I had to scoot down nearer the > river, > because they have allowed two bushes to grow as big as trees in front of the > designated Valley View. > > I was going to print this for the show I entered, but the top was light and > the bottom dark, so I played with it and played with it: lighten shadows, > brightness, contrast, selected areas, etc. I got about four variations I sort > of > liked, but not quite. > > Yosemite is metering/exposure challenge, at least at any time other than > sunrise and sunset, white rock, blue sky, heavily shadowed areas below. > > Note that even when I had only done a little to this, like lightening shadows > a bit, it still looked unreal. > > I gave up in frustration on all my versions and finally came up with this. > Printed big it looks pretty good. Could use more work here and there, but > going > with it for now. > > Here is a Yosemite postcard for you... > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/postcard.htm > > Hehehe, comments welcome. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) Usually I like to comment on others' PESOs before dumping > another of mine out, but don't have time right now. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
