The *Official Photography Thread*

X2 That is one of the best pictures of a Merriam's I have ever seen, great job TJ. They are easy to get close to this time of year if they don't have a hen interested in them. Unless you have a tag. And a bow or gun LOL.

Crappy weather today, rainy, cloudy and foggy but it wasn't snowing at least. Took a trip to the river and much of the ice melted in the last week. Had a pretty decent day and tomorrow will upload some to the birding thread. Finally saw and got pictures of my first Golden Eagle! Quit counting Bald Eagles at 50.

Muskrat and Mallards
MuskratMallards by Mn Cold Iron, on Flickr

Train, ice on the bluffs, couple bald eagles across the river and Pelicans. Just had to do it LOL.
PelicanIFTrainEaglesBluffsIce by Mn Cold Iron, on Flickr

A very wet Bald Eagle
WetEagle by Mn Cold Iron, on Flickr

Wood Duck

 

so shots i took today.

Water Fall by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
Floating horizon by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
Epic Day 5.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr

 

I shot this a while ago, but was going through my album tonight and I think it's one of my better shots. Any advice?

 

WB is too high. If it was down a bit wouldn't be so yellow. Not bad though.

 

question for you guys - I'm trying to change the color of my truck in CS6 and I'm using teh color replacement (truck is silver, I want to make it red) - I set my result color to red and start point selecting silver. Obviously there are a ton of different variants of the silver between pixels, so I try and start selecting more. But afte rthe first one, it starts changing the result color too? color profile is in RGB. ANy ideas?

 

I'd probably use a brush to paint the truck and mess with the color/hue/whatever but I'm not super familiar with CS6 so someone else could help more I'm sure.

 

Back alley smoke break

DSCF1164.jpg by AdelphosChaz, on Flickr

 

You're going in the right direction with your idea.

It's very linear. I might place the flag so it ran upper left to lower right (the seams). Then place the gun almost horizontally (barrel tipped a tiny bit down?) with the magazine and rounds underneath. I might prop it up with something other than a Sharpie-a round under the slide maybe (you don't need to see it).

Also, the depth of field is too shallow for my liking. If you had an overflowing box of rounds and that was out focus, it might work. But you definitely want the entire gun in focus-at least in my opinion.

 

OK, thanks

OK, that makes sense.
I can't do much with the barrel, when the slide moves back the barrel tips up, and I don't think the picture would be as good with the slide closed.

Yeah, I need to build something to keep the sharpie out of the pictures.

OK, I can see that.

Thanks guys

 

Just want to share this pretty cool shot of the storm that came through earlier.

 

Take a piece of gaffer's tape (or black duct tape) and roll it up to make a post to hold the gun up just under the grip. It might take a few tries to get it right. You could also use a small piece of cardboard to prop it up too.

 

Leftovers from the challenge.

Random bee that flew in while I was taking pics. I was about an inch away from him.

DSC_5433-Edit by medic2230, on Flickr

Rejects:

DSC_5408-Edit by medic2230, on Flickr

DSC_5407-Edit by medic2230, on Flickr

Flickr really sucks ass with their new BS way of sharing the photos. The whole new layout sucks.

 

yea not happy with it either really. Oh well..

 

I used the selection tool, masks and a layer for color.

 

So you just select the body of the car then make a layer mask and change the color in there and then black out whatever spillover there is? Thats kind of what i've been doing for the last few hours. I'm gonna try with one of your above images and see if it works as nicely as it does for you.

 

yeah not really working, when I add the fill layer, it's inverted, so i invert it so it looks normal, then I try masking off the top color selected layer and nothing happens?

 

There are a few ways to change the color of a truck. The method I have used is done with a pen/path tool and a vector mask. Then its mostly just messing with settings. A quick youtube search would probably provide you with a step by step how to.

 

My entry for the weekly challenge:

IMG_2471_edit_small by 92shawman, on Flickr

Took Chaz's and tex's suggestions to lighten up the onion stalk using the brush tool, which I shoulda done in the first place, but oh well

IMG_2471_edit2_small by 92shawman, on Flickr

 

yeah ive watched a few vids and tried a few different ways and they all keep coming out like crap. the best results I had were using a color selection, making a layer mask from that then using an HSL layer to adjust the color. It worked on a 4runner, but not the taco on the last page, go figure. The colors got all distorted when I tried.