Archive for June, 2011
Reading Road Map
June 30th, 2011 | 
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A New Post From Lewis A Collins http://GlobalEyeImages.com/portfolio/LCollins Hi I've just load a few pics of men & women couples husbands & wives reading road maps roadside country roads holidays travel. |
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Polar Bears
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A New Post From Carole-Anne Fooks http://GlobalEyeImages.com/portfolio/CFooks See a Lightbox on Individual Polar Bears showing them exploring their surroundings on the tundra and lazing about. This lightbox is supported by two earlier lightboxes: Polar Bear Mums & Cubs, and POLAR BEARS SPARRING. Together the 3 lightboxes give a good picture of Polar Bear behaviour as they gather together during November at Churchill, Canada, waiting for the winter freeze so they can go hunting. |
Cropping and Rotating Images in Adobe Lightroom
Even though everything in Lightroom is nondestructive, you aren’t limited to just basic tonal corrections and contrast. While there are limits to what you can do, they lie far beyond just this. I’ve written already about sharpening in Lightroom, but you can also do such tasks as cropping an image or straightening a horizon. There are some great choices in how Adobe implemented this, but there are also some awkward ones….
Tasmanian Devil
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A New Post From John L Coombes http://GlobalEyeImages.com/portfolio/JohnLCoombesPhotography Found some lovely Tassie Devils last weekend. Here are the pictures. The best thing was that they were really healthy – too often we only see them suffering from unfortunate Devil Facial Tumour Disease. |
Signage
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A New Post From Richard Nickson http://GlobalEyeImages.com/portfolio/RNickson Interesting, unusual, vintage, misspellings and humorous signage found in many different places. Some of these signs are mistakes and some are just off-beat or unusual. A couple are vintage and dated. |
More on Sharpening in Adobe Lightroom 3
In the theory of sharpening, the process can be broken down into three phases: capture sharpening, creative sharpening, and output sharpening. Last week I covered sharpening in the Develop module which is the primary tool for sharpening and can handle all three phases, but Lightroom also has dedicated tools for sharpening in the Import dialog of the Library module for capture sharpening, as well as in the Print and Web modules for output sharpening….
1956 General Motors Motorama
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A New Post From Kim House http://GlobalEyeImages.com/portfolio/Kim House They were known as the "Dream Cars" My new Lightbox shows the results from restoring stereograph transparencies of the 1956 General Motors Motorama. Restoration brings back to life these beautiful automobiles from the 1950's designed by Harley J Earl and Chuck Jordan. |
Along the Great Ocean Road
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A New Post From Kim House http://GlobalEyeImages.com/portfolio/Kim House Fossicking among the unusual rock formations searching for shells and sea creatures, you can watch the weather change along the horizon. Please view my new Lightbox, any questions, please contact me. |
Wollombi Valley, Hunter NSW Floods
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A New Post From John L Coombes http://GlobalEyeImages.com/portfolio/JohnLCoombesPhotography June 2011 the area received over 150mm of rain in two days cutting roads and flooding properties. The run off from the surrounding hills created waterfalls and streams in previously dry land. Here is a selection of images of the transformed landscape. |
Sharpening in Adobe Lightroom 3
I’ve written a number of articles on how best to sharpen images in Adobe Photoshop but Lightroom can do an outstanding job of sharpening as well. If you’re used to sharpening in Photoshop, the technique is similar in Lightroom, but much better. Here’s the basic rundown….
