john y.k. lee

I spent a lot of time manipulating this picture in Photoshop. It

was originally taken on Sensia 100 and scanned on Nikon Coolscan V.

I darkened the balloons in the upper right. I blurred the

background temple. I wanted to emphasize the elderly woman and

elephant. Any advice would be appreciated.

I'm not sure what to do with the dark corner in the upper right.

What do you think of the picture as a whole? I used a unique lens.

I shot with a 35mm lens at f2.8 Do you think a wider aperture would

have been better? I also struggled on photoshop to get the statue a

little brighter as it was in shade compared to the last remaining

rays of light on the person reading. Does this work?

I tried to tone down the blue from the altitude, but I'm not sure if

it made the sky look unnatural. What do you think?

What do you think i can do to improve the black and white

conversion? This was Provia 100F and I am trying to make the best

black and white print. I appreciate any help you can give.

I only wish I had taken another lighter exposure so I could blend

the two pictures. What do you think?

I had to do some severe correction of barrel distortion with this

particular lens. I learned my lesson. No more landscape

photography with this zoom lens.

I am curious of what people think. Most pictures have hummingbirds

next to flowers, but these were mostly feeding at feeders, and I

didn't want to capture the artificial feeder.

I used ISO 800 film, because I was in the rainforest and there

wasn't much light. My only other film at the time was Provia 100F.

I am curious whether others will suggest that I have switched to

that slide film. This would have made me change my exposure. My

meter was reading f5.6 1/250sec. Three stops would have put me at

f4 1/60sec or f2.8 1/125 sec. OR I could have made the background

darker by one stop f4 1/125sec and use the flash more. What would

you have done?

It was raining but the sun was out creating the flare coming from

the left. I'm curious what others will think of this picture.

What do you think of the mood? This is a scan of a slide. I

cropped the picture and increased the blue and then sharpened it.

I know I cut off his antler, but I am new to nature photography.

What do you think?

No photoshop manipulation except resizing. However, if you were to

touch this up in photoshop, what would you do? I am not well-versed

in Photoshop yet!