Dpbours Workshop Photos Given

Title: Continuing with birds - the young grebeNikon D200 DSLR

Continuing with birds - the young grebe (16)
Dpbours

(2066)

The entire family

(2066) [2008-02-15 04:58:20]

Here's the entire clan.

United Kingdom

Something simple... (10)
wilkinsonsg

(3693)

USM, hue, sat and lightness

(2066) [2008-02-14 09:41:59] [3]

I started with some unsharp masking:

150%, 0.3 pix radius, 0 treshold. Then edit-fade to lighter. 100% opacity.
After that 80% USM, 0.3 pix radius, 0 treshold. Edit-fade to darker. 100% opacity.

After that I played with the hue, saturation and lightness of the various colour channels to just give it a little bit more punch.

I added a white frame with a thin grey line to isolate it a bit more from the light blue TL background. Hope you like it!

Poland

Winter? (28)
Iwon

(5357)

USM, hue/saturation

(2066) [2008-02-14 09:34:00] [1]

I started with some unsharp masking;

80%, 0.3 pix radius, 0 treshold. Then edit-fade to lighter, 100% opacity. After that another one of 80%, 0.3 pix radius, 0 treshold. But then edit-fade to darker, 100% opacity.

Last I played a bit with hue/saturation and lightness to give it a bit more punch in the colours.
Hope you like it!

Indonesia

Pematang-Siantar (16)
korbee

(9118)

Velvia Vision + USM

(2066) [2008-01-28 06:55:39] [2]

I wanted the overall feel a bit lighter. For that, I used velvia vision plugin. What it basically does is that it combines brightness/contrast, highlight/shadows and hue/saturation to get that velvia feel. I mostly adjusted on the dynamic range, to get the sun hitting the foreground a bit brighter.

After that an unsharp mask, 80%, 0.3 pix, 0 treshold. Edit-fade to light - 100 percent opacity.
After that the same, but then edit-fade to dark - 100 percent opacity.

Hope you like it!

Title: Portrait fun at f/1.4Nikon D200 DSLR

Portrait fun at f/1.4 (26)
Dpbours

(2066)

Bonzai tree

(2066) [2008-01-15 05:31:17]

A bonzai tree in close-up at f/1.4.
A bit of a surreal effect!

Italy

°snail°° (8)
flashpoint

(6169)

Velvia Vision + USM

(2066) [2008-01-10 04:57:21] [2]

I used a plugin for photoshop called Velvia Vision. You can enhance contrast and warmth with it, but it only enhances the harsher colours - like Velvia film would. You see the enhancement especially in the green and the orange-tones here. I used contrast 1, warmth 1, 20% effect and 80% opacity overlay in the plugin.

Then an USM 80%, 0.3 pix radius, 0 treshold. After that an edit-fade to light w 100% opacity.
And last an USM 80%, 0.3 pix radius, 0 treshold. After that an edit-fade to darker w 100% opacity.

The last two bring out the little details without creating too much noise. Hope you like it!

China

Title: Yuan Yang Rice Fields: Hani MinorityCanon 40D

Yuan Yang Rice Fields: Hani Minority (28)
Lanbowen

(2266)

unsharp masking x4

(2066) [2008-01-10 02:05:24] [2]

I used 4 unsharp masks.

USM 80%, 0.3 pix, 0 treshold. Then edit-fade to lighter with 100% opacity. Second a same USM 80%, 0.3 pix, 0 treshold. Then edit-fade to darker with 100% opacity.

After that I repeated this a second time. Hope you like the increase of sharpness on your subject.

Portrait fun at f/1.4 (32)
Dpbours

(2066)

Playing with fire

(2066) [2008-01-06 09:30:08]

And the shallower the sharper it seems. Even if you'd use this little 50mm at f/4, the sharpness is still superb.

Portrait fun at f/1.4 (32)
Dpbours

(2066)

More shallow portrait fun

(2066) [2008-01-06 09:27:05]

How shallow can you get? Funny to see the nose already slightly out of focus and a total lack of background.

Zwaanshoek (30)
korbee

(9118)

unsharp masking

(2066) [2007-12-27 11:33:46] [1]

Hi Jan,

I like the low colour tone in your photograph, but it could be a tad sharper.

I used two unsharp masks. The first one 150%, 0.3 pix at 0 treshold. Then edit-fade towards darker with 100% opacity.
Second a 150%, 0.3 pix at 0 treshold. Then edit-fade towards lighter with 100% opacity.

Hope you like it!