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Old 07-17-2007   #1 (permalink)
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Wow these are beautiful! Awesome job!
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Well done Lee !! They are all excellent but #2 and #3 are awesome.
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Alright I'm inspired! I'm going to try RAW again (hopefully with more patience this time).

As previously stated they all are beautiful, but #3 seals the deal for me!
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I favor #3, congrats on going raw, you won't go back!
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Beautiful work Lee!
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Thanks everyone!

And I don't know Padre, the jury is still out. I shoot a Maxxum and the Dimage RAW software isn't great. Slow and tedious process converting them. I need to read through HELP and see if there's a way to batch process them. I'd have to check and see if I couldn't get some of the same advantages by converting jpegs to 16 bit. Either way I have a lot of reading ahead of me. Thanks for stopping by.
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Thanks for dropping by Dean!

I'm wondering why nobody is banging me over that last shot.
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Way to shoot cowboy!! Absolutely wonderful, all of them!

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I'm wondering why nobody is banging me over that last shot.
The last one is definitely creative. I like the in-image framing. The only thing I really don't like is the line running through it. I just assumed you didn't know it was there. Kind of like I have an interesting lightning shot with my husband's truck anntenae running through it. Bummer!
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Great work. I love the colors. Way to go.
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The last one is definitely creative. I like the in-image framing. The only thing I really don't like is the line running through it. I just assumed you didn't know it was there.
Thanks Hobby. I thought about removing that wire but didn't want to spend the time it would take to do it without messing up the sky.

I just added that image to the post as a throw-away. To see if anyone liked or hated it.
I'm still undecided.
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Tough choice, but I'm gonna to go with #3 also.
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Great colors and conversion Very nice work Lee

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Hopefully they won't be your last RAW conversions Great Job!
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Thank you.

My RAW software is old and clunky. I'm looking in to whether converting my original jpgs to 16 bit before editing would suffice for now.
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Very nice, and I like the continuous tones without any color banding around the sun..

As a personal preference, I like to to bring some of the details of the darker areas. With RAW that would be easy to extract.. Great first RAW conversion, nonetheless
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You may be right Waleed. But I burnt the dark areas on purpose because I thought an ugly old construction yard would be unpleasant. lol
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Beautiful colors.. love all of them
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You may be right Waleed. But I burnt the dark areas on purpose because I thought an ugly old construction yard would be unpleasant. lol
Let me know what you think.
...can you do a third one of this one and then somewhere 'in between' ?

IMHO this one is 'overcooked' a little, while the first conversion you posted is a tad too dark for *my* appetite too.

...in between, where you can outline the silhouettes of the yard, but cannot truely see the details, would be 110% IMHO

Nice shots & great conversions. IIRC, PhotoShop Elements RAW (w/ACR 4.1 although a little less options, 'dumbed down' from PSCS3) does Minolta MAXXUM RAW conversions (to 8bit JPG or 16bit TIFF) too... and is not thàt expensive...

...just an idea, *my* €0.02 worth...

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