Posts made in March 31st, 2009

What’s Your Play #39 – Rings

Posted by Michelle on Mar 31, 2009 in Photography | 4 comments

What’s Your Play is hosted by Laura at Dolce Pics. She provides a SOOC (straight out of camera) shot and the folks post-process it and share the results. More info here.

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Here’s my entry for What’s Your Play #39 – Rings

Software: Lightroom 2 — one of the first times I’ve used LR and I’ve fallen head over heels in love with it. So powerful! So shiny! So… expensive. Ow.

What I did and why:

• I tweaked the color a bit, boosting the saturation and vibrancy in particular as well as the white balance. I had tried using an LR preset that I just didn’t find myself very happy with. Playing with the sliders and working with curves was more familiar and gave me a better result than the presets.
• I started playing around with the sharpening slider and was amazed at the difference it made in the detail on the rings. Wow!
• I tried a number of different crops but decided I liked this 5×7 one the best.
• After all was said and done, I added a slight vignette to finish it off. Whee!

Lesson Learned

Posted by Michelle on Mar 31, 2009 in To Be Sorted | 1 comment

I will not feed internet trolls.
I will not feed internet trolls.
I will not feed internet trolls.

I ended up commenting on a post on Gizmodo which mocked the Peekaru vest. I also ended up getting 21 replies, most (if not all) of them troll-like in nature.

*sigh* Lesson learned. Lesson also learned not to use my fricking FB account to comment. BAHx2