Weekly competition 34: Street furniture

Right I can see it now, it must be something on the post, because none of the other images from that day show a dustspot/hair on the sensor.

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Please call me aj,

I use a Pentax K10D, on a MacBook with LightRoom (vers 1.3 + beta 2)

http://www.ba-joseph.co.uk/gallery

...and looking again, there's a similar looking mark on another post further along.

Dan

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K-3, a macro lens and a DA*300mm...

Brilliant - many thanks for the link.

Recommend that your shy friend joins the forum - he or she can always use a pseudonym like many others

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Hyram

Bodies: K20D (2), K10D, Super A, ME Super, Auto 110 SLR, X70, Optio P70
Pentax Glass: DA* 300, DA* 60-250, DA* 50-135, DA* 16-50, DA 70 Ltd, FA 31 Ltd, DA 35 Ltd, DA 18-55 (2), DA 12-24, DA 10-17, M 200, A 35-70, M 40, M 28, Converter-A 2X-S, 1.4X-S, AF 1.7, Pentax-110 50, Pentax-110 24
Other Glass: Sigma 105 macro, Sigma-A APO 75-300
Flash: Metz 58 AF-1 P, Pentax AF160FC ringflash, Pentax AF280T

In my personal opinion, that technique would be far more efficient if you used channel mixer>monochrome on a duplicate layer, and added a mask rather than the hue/staturation with the layer mask, it provides a broader range of options and outcomes.

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http://www.behance.net/robbranigan
K20D, DA18-55II, FA50 1.4, DA10-17
To buy: Metz 58 AF-1, DA*50-135, DA12-24, DA100M

Don't forget you can use the Hue/Saturation layer to manipulate indivual colours too. So you can desaturate the whole image as described in the tutorial, but then adjust the brightness of the reds, yellows etc to give different effects, in much the same way as the Channel Mixer works. Drag the brightness of the blue and cyan down, and you get contrasty skies for instance.




For those without the Channel Mixer (Elements users like myself) it can be a quick way to work with Black and White.

Dan

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K-3, a macro lens and a DA*300mm...

Thats a very good point Dan; I'd completely thrown that out of the window and not thought about it, after being so used to Channel Mixer.
Thanks!

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http://www.behance.net/robbranigan
K20D, DA18-55II, FA50 1.4, DA10-17
To buy: Metz 58 AF-1, DA*50-135, DA12-24, DA100M

Congratulations to spirit of will and thanks to mike for the judging.

Also thanks to Lilly cause that effect has intrigued me for a while now, but I was to shy to ask how it was done

On to the next one now then

Regards
PaulM

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All cameras are equal but.....
Some are more equal than others

WOW Thanks all of you for your very kind comments and in particular to MikeW for his excellent judging effort, most surprised to have won especially against Lilly's entry! Still it shows that film still hits the button and you don't need the mastery of PS to win comps. I hadn't logged on in a few days and it's only due to John Riley e-mailing me that I realise I now have the huge job of setting & judging the next comp!

To those that wanted to see it bigger have a look at the page on my pbase website http://www.pbase.com/diffractionphotography/image/93351500

Let me have a think this afternoon and I'll get the next comp kicked off this evening...

Cheers!

Will

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