The *Official Photography Thread*

I was curious about LightRoom's new masking features. I started with a jpg (I don't have the original online at the moment). I selected the "people" mask and it grabbed just the subject. You can select "sky" as well. There's line in the air and "sky" did not select it--that blew me away!

Anyway, now I'm gonna need to go looking. This was taken when I had a D4 and at like 0430 ish.

 

I seriously need to update my editing skills. Masking confounds me. Seems like the people who write the interfaces for these cool features can't make it easy enough for an old fart like me to use it. True with all platforms.

 

Eastern Sierra 2 summers ago. Somewhere near the Owens River

 

The latest version of LR has really done a great job with masking. Prior to that, it was content aware fill (ex in your favorite picture? No problem!).

 

My sister's backyard.

 

That looks like what I saw yesterday when I got home.
Santa Barbara..

 

outstanding pic hope the animal wasn't shot and killed afterwards!

 

This one ran away for another day

 

Birthday stroll - ran up on this beauty...

 

Down by the river - had I realized what I was seeing as it was approaching I would have had a killer shot -
Still managed a few decent images -

 

Some of mine, life in the “road”

Hawker 900XP

Hawker 4000

Challenger 350

Hawker 900XP

Challenger 350

 

Amazing what an IPhone can capture, can’t wait to get a real camera. Lol

 

These Phone Cameras do capture pretty fabulous images. The difference is file size, so my Nikon captures them at 28meg. Meaning I can
'blow' them up on screen with little degradation. And by capturing them in 'RAW' format ( ie: true digital ) like an XML file fancy editors can
really make incredible adjustments to the images before converting them down to JPG.

Don't be afraid to buy a good used camera and save a few hundred bucks. They are out there. And you might want to 'rent' them for a few days
and see which combos of cameras and lenses you like. Lensrentals is a great company to do that with.

 

Great info and the idea of renting is great! Thanks..!

 

I don't Regret taking this picture of an Egret

 

Lol awesome!!

 

This young bald eagle thinks it’s a duck hunter.

 

I reckon an Eagle eats what it wants -