My first glance at this, I thought of the Addams Family or the Munsters - kind of an old mansion sort of look. Looks like a very tough shot to do well. Yours is nice.
-- Bruce Sunday, October 7, 2007, 1:13:18 PM, you wrote: Eac> The downside about organizing my photos in Lightroom, is I'll be boring you Eac> with some of my older and less inspired photos. Eac> The upside is it lets me practice with PS (well, Elements 5). This one I Eac> tried a B&W conversion with using a couple of adjustment layers, one using the Eac> RGB channels. Eac> In April I made an abortive trip to Sacramento to look for poppies where Eac> George Lepp had told me they were. Had a quick lunch with Bruce, didn't find any Eac> poppies (found them later about 5 miles from home), visited Auburn, and a Eac> man-made lake in land from Auburn (lots of mansions among farm houses). Eac> Old town Auburn is tiny, but it has an impressive court house on a knoll. Eac> The court house has a dome, but it's not caught in this shot. I ran all around Eac> the building and took all kinds of shots, but haven't thought any of them Eac> were worth showing (before now, before organizing :-)). It was also swarming Eac> with swallows, which I found the most interesting part, and sometimes I could Eac> get them in a shot, and sometimes I couldn't. Eac> Sans dome, but I think it captures the feel of the building... somewhat. It Eac> also let me play with converting. Eac> http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/auburn.htm Eac> Comments welcome. Eac> Marnie aka Doe :-) Eac> --------------------------------------------- Eac> Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. Eac> ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
