Edinburgh Botanical Gardens

[Rob MacKillop]

On my way to the Pinhole Festival...

1. This is actually in Inverleith park on the way to the Botanical Gardens. Shot in colour and pp'd Photoshop CS3.


Tree and Shed by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

2. The roof of the greenhouse...


Greenhouse Roof by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

3. What else, but the Lady In Red?


Lady In Red by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

4. Macro shot


Thing 1 by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

All on the X100.

 

[Kev Pugh]

and who said the learning curve is steep?

Nice shots Rob, Lady in Red is interesting and a good observation..so you are enjoying the X100 then

 

[Chris Dodkin]

He's up and running! - So the posty didn't steal it then

Loving the repeating pattern in the greenhouse roof shot

That thing looks scary Rob

 

[Brian Moore]

Nice DOF in that last one, Rob! Love the greenhouse roof as well as the lady in red. Great stuff!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks to KK, I now know how to add a frame:

Better? Worse?


tree_shed_frame by RobMacKillop, on Flickr


Tree and Shed by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I like the frame version - always put them on mine after Pete pointed out how much better they make most shots look

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I agree, and it gives an edge, so to speak, to the dull white cloudscape.

 

[Kev Pugh]

Better with Rob, I think it just adds to the image and looks like you (we) have put a bit of thought into the pp rather than just dropping an image onto the page...

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nice shots Rob. Love the Woman in Red. I reckon a spot of straightening and a slight increase in saturation (maybe even a touch of gausian blur) would improve it further though. What do you think? Like the frame. One thing I often do with frames (I assume you used canvas size) is to pick a dark tone from the image rather than just using black - makes it look more like part of the original process (not an issue in this instance though).

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Good, helpful comments, Pete. You guys are my university

 

[Pete Askew]

You're welcome. Try a curves adjustment on the roof and make it 'S' shaped. I think you'll find the sky / roof contrast will balance better. You can do it as an adjustment layer (the little half black / half white circle in the layers panel) and then you can tweak it to get it just as you like it. Or have you worked that out already - sorry if you had!

 

[Vic Shaw]

I too like the Lady in Red and I'm with Pete a little bit of work on that and it would look great.

The border looks good to, I would crop a little of the bottom quite close to the base of the tree. It seems to give it a different feel when cropped that way.

and the two sheds shot did make me think of this Monty Python - Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson - YouTube


Vic

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Well, I just did this in my beta LR4, but I can't see how to Save the changes, other than Export. But now it is only 240 kb. Anyway, here is the cropped version with +11 on the saturation dial:


Lady In Red-1 by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

 

[Pete Askew]

I really do like this shot Rob. Might b tempted to lose the girder at the top as, although it adds a frame, this would make the whole image a bit more s=mysterious I think. What about you?

You don't need to save the file - it does that automatically. The effects are only actually applied when you export or print etc. In the file/export option you can change the type of file, size, colour space (use sRGB for uploading) etc.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Not sure about losing the girder, but I'll give it a go and compare.

Completely lost re your comment about S bends and layers. We've very quickly reached the stop point in my knowledge of PP

 

[Pete Askew]

Photoshop Tutorial: Adjustment Layers

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, and thanks also to Vic - all good comments.

 

[Pete Askew]

In case it helps. This is in CS5 but CS3 looks similar.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

This is all your fault, Pete Don't worry, I'm just fooling around. It's late and I'm off to bed!


GreenhouseRoof2 by RobMacKillop, on Flickr


GreenhouseRoof3 by RobMacKillop, on Flickr

 

[Pete Askew]

Excellent! Love that psychedelic sky - must be all that solar fare activity!! Sleep well (under that storm of charged particles up there!!).