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August
Title: orange hot rod
This hot rod was captured in the small town of Gruene, TX. The town is famous for having the oldest dance hall in continuous service in Texas. Willi Nelson and other famous country western singers have played here. The bright red orange paint made it jump right off the pavement! After the initial editing I selected the top portion of the car and added a very dark gray to whip out the other cars on the street. The paint was a true red-orange. I added a couple of filters from Topaz Detail 2 that helped to bring out the golden yellow glow in the car. I used the micro- contrast color by JDiaze and the color pop filters. This added a little bit of grain that I tried to reduce with CS5. I was not very successful with that treatment. If any of you know a good way to remove noise with CS5 I would love to learn about it.
| Maria Korab-Laskowska |
Great photo. I like sharpness, color, golden glow as well as idea of black background to cover other cars. Having set this an edge of the black background color on the right looks not naturally and should be fixed- but this is a detail. |
| Tom Icklan |
Very nice. You have done an excellent job wiping out the background clutter and maintaining sparkle and pop. There is a faint reflection in the window of the door which can be easily removed but this is really a nit pic. I know you like to market your work and this is the type of sharp well composed image that often sells.
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| Mark Greenberg |
This photo belongs on the cover of one of the hot rod magazines. I love the sharpness front to back and the dazzle of the color. I'm not troubled by any grain problem. Wonder what it would look like with some motion blur added? Would you share your opinions about Topaz--I read about it but have not tried it yet.
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| Eduardo Atienzar Martinez |
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| Kieu-Hanh Vu |
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| Rawligh Sybrant |
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Linda Phelps
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In my 30's I had catastrophic experience by coming down with Fibromyalgia.This was long before the research got started. Once I got some meds that helped cut down the intense pain I started getting interested with photography in 1999.We bought my first digital camera, an Olympus. Photography gave me the desire to push myself until I got lot stronger. I am now using a Canon 10D with canon L glass. I like competitions and have won prizes and acceptances in Salon competition.I have sold some my work in an art gallery. My photos have been published in photo books, photo magazines and the newspaper.
Photography has become a passion with me! I love to learn new ways to improve my images. I belong to few groups to help me do that. Now I have the opportunity to learn more with PSA!
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