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I took this hi-key picture last Spring of apple blossoms. I don’t remember the settings but I found this picture in an old file folder.
On our walk today I found this tree next to the walking path in Bowness Park. The bottom branches have died or have been pruned away. It just invites you to look up into the crown. I played around in Photoshop with Camera Raw sliders and in Photoshop proper with the levels tool. The first image had an additional B&W adjustment layer, and I played around with the colour channels to get this effect. I really like the leading lines converging on the stem. The snow on the branches enhance this effect.
Here is the colour version.
Another variation of winter trees
This one didn’t quite make the cut for High Key, but I still like it. ISO 250, f/22, 1/125
It is really good. I would have removed the straight stalk on the left of the bush though.
Yes, I knew you were going to say that! I tried but it got complicated at the top so gave up. Maybe I’ll give it another shot.
Ok did it in GIMP — not too difficult after all and a definite improvement.
Wow, I really like it!
Very nice Ron
Thanks Henri and Tony. One more slight improvement: Cropped a bit off the left to remove small piece of grass and improve the overall balance.
A cloudy but bright day is perfect for high key. From the Viking river cruise we took at the end of June. A spectacular 30-foot fountain in Koblenz, Germany, whose 10 stacked scenes depict the 2,000-year history of the city, starting at the bottom with the arrival of Romans. Apparently the city experienced more than one fire. I almost always use spot metering, which washed out the sky completely.
ISO 1600, 110 mm, f/10, 1/500 s
A Nov 4th, 9am landing from our expedition ship on a South Georgia island. We were each given a red Silversea expedition jacket (which made for great photo graphy) as well as keeping us warm and dry on our many “wet” landings.
During the trip I used two Fuji camera bodies an XT-4 and an XT-5.
ISO 160/ F7.1/ SS@1/640 handheld
benches covered with snow with hoarfrost all around
ISO 125 122mm f5.6 1/350
another winter photo ISO 125 f5.6 150mm 1/250
I tried to lighten the dark edge on the right side
Experimental shot of snow on elm tree branches. Taken with 300 mm zoom lens. ISO 2000, f/36, 1/125. Converted to B & W, sharpened in GIMP and Dramatic Filter applied in Apple Photos.
Beautiful high contrast pattern.
this was taken 12 years ago at the corner of Centre and 144 Ave NW there was an abandoned farm now is Livingston subdivision.
Louise Creek last week
Taken with my cell phone
and this one just 3 weeks ago!
Ballet up Close
1/1250s, f2.0, ISO 2000
Denoised and edited in LR
85mm lens on Canon R5
Picture taken Nov 28
My grandson (kid in the middle) posing with his team at the end of the hockey tournament.
Edited in LR – names removed from helmets.
iPhone Pro Max
Picture taken Dec 1
Largest birch in our neighbourhood, about 30+m.
Timing is everything they say. Less than 2 minutes between these two images. The wind came suddenly and there was no time to adjust the settings to improve the heavy hoar frost.
Both were cropped and auto-adjusted colour in Apple Preview
After the blow
This photo is no longer possible to reproduce. It is land being re-developed. It was shot several years ago on 85th St off Old Coach Banff Road where now passes Stoney Trail behind COP.
Shot this one yesterday as I was trudging on the pathway west of the CPR track in the Edworthy Park area. It is posted ‘as shot’ with no modification, except to meet the posting qualification, to show being at the ‘right spot’ at the ‘right time’ is half the battle in taking good photos. I have not yet massaged it digitally but I imagine it should turn out to be quite the photo given the excellent raw image with which I begin
The little devil that takes up so much of my time. Taken at f/1.5, 1/60 sec, ISO 320