lu_yin

Thank you for you comments.

Thank you for the comment.

 

They were beat drums (or cans) in front of a museum and the policeman asked them to leave. That's why you can see them moving. Perhaps I should have backed off a little more to have more in the pictures, but I thought I was distracting. May be a series of pictures would be better.

 

Lu

I like the reflection fromthe policeman's sunglass.

Taken at Starved Rock State Park of IL.

Maybe this scene is common for people who grew up in a farm, but I

thought this picture is pretty interesting.

Infrared photo.

Tim: thank you for your comment.

I was immediately attracted by the shape of that tree when I saw it.

 

Actually, there wasn't that much processing. I first adjusted the hue and saturation to change the color. Then I increased the contrast level. That's about it.

 

Was there enough manipulation to put it in digital alternation

category? Was there too much manipulation to put it in nature

category?

Which one is better?

I was trying to make some desktop wallpaer. I took a shot of watch

laying on top of my laptop and altered the picture in photoshop.

Thank you for your comments. I actually swabbed red and blue channel in photoshop.

Should I convert this image into BW? And what about cropping?

 

Thanks!

 

Lu

Thank you for your comments!

This is not a real person. A shot taken at Chicago Art Institute. I think I should have cropped the image...

Should I crop the image? That would make the subject a little bigger,

but then the picture would not show as much color.

 

Thanks!

thank you for your comments!

Here is an updated version after photoshop:

 

updated version

I know this kind of picture is pretty cliched. Should this image be

cropped?

I took this picture in color and then changed it to bw using chanel

mixer in PS. I feel a little uneasy about the exposure: The tree

branches at the top seem a little over exposed.

 

Please let me know what do you think. Thanks!

I took this picture at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago through a thick

glass window. I understand it is not exact "natural", but I wonder

what I can do to improve pictures like this one.

Thanks, Adam. Are you saying the sharpness is not enough? I am thinking about that too. I turned in-camera sharpening off and did not use photoshop to USM. Do you think I should sharpened the middle flower a little? Also, I shot the picture at 70mm/2.8. I the wide-aperture might also have ruined the sharpness.

 

Thank you for your comment.

I experimented with this shot. I took 3 shots: focusing on the top,

middle, and bottom flowers. I wonder which one would be better. Also,

what do you think would be a better way to frame it? Perhaps I should

crop the right side of the picture so it only shows the pedals of the

flower on the top.

Thanks, Duane. I took the picture with a digital camera. I intentionally underexposed it becaused I did not want blown highlights. I shot the picture in RAW format, which allows me to to do +/-2 exposure compensation afterwards. But then I thought I should post the untouched photos.

Shot taken from the top of Hancock building in Chicago at Twilight.

Picture taken with digital camera. Photoshop used to generate the

sepia look.