Oregon Photography Workshop Photos

Los Angeles Street Photography - The LA County Fair - Photos by Keith Skelton

FUJI CON LEICA

FUJIFILM Corporation is pleased to announce the new FinePix X100, a high-grade digital compact camera featuring an APS-C CMOS sensor, a Fujinon 23mm fixed focal length lens and a newly developed Hybrid Viewfinder, due for commercial release in early 2011.

AUTO ART by Keith Skelton

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Black and White Processing in Adobe Lightroom and NIK Silver Efex

I get numerous inquiries about my digital black and white techniques. Here are a few examples, step by step as processed in Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and NIK Silver Efex. All these images were shot in Death Valley with a Nikon D2X and various lenses. All files 16 bit Adobe Pro Photo RGB. You can see that quite a few steps are involved.

Each of the photos were fairly drab before processing.

The first image in each of the three selections is a Nikon NEF RAW file unprocessed.

This photo was shot near sunset at Ubehebe Crater.

I first processed the image in Lightroom with what I thought looked good in color, ignoring black and white. 

1. Auto Tone to see what it looks like.

2. Lens profile and or correct chromatic aberrations.

3. White balance as shot (Daylight)

4. +40 Claity

5. +36 Vibrance

6. +20 Saturation

7. Add graduated filter to lower rock area and brighten slightly.

8. Add graduated filter to sky and darken slightly.

9. +15 Fill light

10. Export to Photoshop CS5 

11. Auto Tone and contrast to see what it look like.

12. Select the trail area with lasso tool and feather 10 pixels.

13. Brighten the trail slightly using levels.

14. Save and export to NIK Silver Efex.

15. Use the High Structure Filter and add the yellow filter to darken the blue sky.

15. Save back into Lightroom

16. Use the gradation tool to slightly darken the cloud n the right side.

The second photo was also photographed at Ubehebe Crater. You can see by the unprocessed original how flat and un interesting the light was.

First processed in Abobe Lightroom.

1. Auto Tone to see what it looks like.

2. Lens profile and or correct chromatic aberrations.

3. White balance as shot.

4. +35 Black Clipping

5. +40 Clarity

6. +42 Vibrance

7. +10 Brightness

8. +49 Sharpening

9.  -Color Temp to 5300K

10. Slight Crop

11. Add gradation filter to top area and darken slightly.

12. Export to NIK Color Efex

13. Use the Black and White Conversion Tool and add green filter and brightness.

14. Export back to Lightroom 

The third photo was also processed in Adobe Lightroom, but by using it's own greyscale tools rather than exporting to NIK or Photoshop.

1. Auto Tone

2. Auto White balance

3. Convert to Greyscale

4. Color temp to 4900. (even in greyscale this can impact the tones)

5. +40 Clarity

6. +1.67 Exposure

7. +35 Black clipping

8. Tone Curve -19 Darks, +13 Lights

9. Point Curve, Strong Contrast

10. +46 Shapening

11. Auto Grey Scale Mix

12. +50 Brightness

13. +50 Contrast

14. Add Brush Stroke and Darken area above sand dune.

15. Slight crop.

16. Add Gradation to the left side of dune and darken slightly.

The new Nikon D7000 looks very promising

The new Nikon D7000 as a D90 replacement looks very promising with a new 16.2MP CMOS sensor and 1080P HD video recording. Check it out at DP Review. Nikon product brochure HERE.

HDR photography with iPhone 4

Here is a good explanation of the new HDR function for the iPhone 4 and iOS 4.1

Oregon Photo Workshop Photo Map Locations

Here is a link of GPS map locations of some of the places my Oregon Photo Workshop will be visiting in a few weeks.

Excellence in Photography - David Taylor

Photo by David Taylor

Biography

David Taylor earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. His photographs, multimedia installations, and artist’s books have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Columbia College Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso; El Paso Museum of Art; SF Camerawork, San Francisco; Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO; and Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University, Tempe. His work is in a number of permanent collections, including Columbia College Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia; University of Washington, Seattle; El Paso Museum of Art; Fidelity Investments, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum. Taylor has completed recent major commissions for artwork installed in the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Van Horn, Texas and the United States Federal Courthouse in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Taylor’s ongoing examination of the U.S. Mexico border was supported by a 2008 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the work will be published in a forthcoming monograph from Radius Books

Three updated photo workshops! Los Angeles at Night, The Salton Sea, and Santa Barbara County

http://www.californiaphotographyworkshops.com/LA_Nights.html

http://www.californiaphotographyworkshops.com/Santa_Barbara.html

http://www.californiaphotographyworkshops.com/Salton_Sea.html