Grant, you 've got a lovely garden; I envy you, especially as gardenig isn't something I like to do myself. It shows.....
Recently I hired someone to do the gardening for me, partly because I saw the images on your website and realised something had to be done.
My webmaster has uploaded -I don't know how to do this myself; I'm still studying Elements- some images of a rather special wedding for me; something you don't see rather often in other countries.
These images show a pro photographer often doesnot need anything more expensive than Elements and a few free plug ins. Some colleagues just smile when I tell them that's all I need.
You can find these images on my website <http://www.fotografieleenkoper.nl> >gallery> huwelijk > page 1, images 2 and 4 and page 2, image 3
All these images were done in Elemsnts, just only applying levels, color cast, USM and the Dreamy FX plug in. Nothing to it.... ;-)
Enjoy.
Leen
Leen, your images are magnificent. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Chuck
Leen
Wonderful web site. Now if I ever get married , perish the thought, and if
I ever get to Holland, now that is an idea, I will have you do it. Great
work.
Grant
Wonderful collage Jane!
Grant
WOW these are gorgeous ! But of course you already know that ;)
Lets see more of our forum people post more garden, flower, fireworks, wedding, and more pictures of pretty subjects.
Thanks, Jane
Grant, if you ever get married, I promise I will come over to cover your wedding. ;-))
I've covered a wedding in the USA before, in Meredith, New Hampshire. Some of the images are on my website: the bride at a pool on the front page, the bride and groom (with high hat) tossing around and some others.
It was a wonderful experience to be in such lovely surroundings as near Lake Winnepesauky (I hope I spell well). I always thought US wedding photographers carefully chose these lovely locations. Now I know they have to try hard to avoid this scenery!
In short, I enjoyed my 40 hours in the USA; next time however I'll bring my own coffee!!!
Leen
Leen,
I'm curious about something.
I've talked to several wedding photographers here in the US and they tell me
the majority of their sales is in prints 8x10 and smaller, but they do sell
a significant number of larger prints -- 11x14 and 16x20 are popular and an
occasional 20x30 or larger.
I would expect that you also sell larger prints. What resolution do you
normally use to scan your negatives? Do you work with a lower resolution
scan adequate for 11x14 or 16x20 prints and rescan at higher resolution and
reprocess the image if someone wants a "monster" sized print? What's the
largest sized print you can do "in-house"?
Thanks. Just curious,
Bob
Dan
Of course we insist ;-) Nice photo ... my lilies are not much more than
green leaves as of yet.
Grant
Dan, beautiful photo - very vibrant colors and the soft background really
accentuates the bloom. What camera are you using?
Chuck
Thank you all for the compliments. But I expected something else.
Funny, I expected a lot of reactions on the images of the wedding of the two brides - no grooms involved.
This was one of the most wonderful shootings I ever did. I wasnot sure about how to cover this event; at first I was thinking about compositions concentrated around the two white triangles of the dresses.
However, right after the first shot, I was overwhelmed by the tenderness and caring love between these partners.
I tried to capture this mood and I thought I succeeded and I was so proud of myself. That's why I wanted you all to share my feelings.
Life is great, being a photographer!
Leen
Hi Robert(message #12)
I do hardly any scanning; I use a digital camera, the Fuji S2, The output of this camera in the highest setting (and I don't use any other settings) will print about 30x40 cm (12x16 inches) at 254 dpi.
I learned most images from digital cameras can be enlarged about 4 times in a linear way. And this proves to be right applying bicubic scaling.
I sold quite some 50x75 cm (20x30 inches) images without any problem. In the display of my high street studio I show at the moment three of these images. A friend of mine even has printed 120x180 cm, that's 48x72 inches at 180 dpi, but that's no problem as the viewing distance of these images is different. And, he even doesnot use Photoshop Elements, just only the full version.... ;-))
Here, in the Netherlands there are so many high quality professional labs; hardly any photographer does his own processing in house. I know it is different in the UK, Germany and Belgium because it seems most of these pro labs don't work to the same standards.
However, things are changing quickly. In portraiture I do a lot of printing on my Epson 2100 printer, but within a few weeks I think I will be buying an Epson 7600 that will allow me to print up to 24 inches wide.
I just got to find a place for it.
Leen
Here's a Tulip <http://ncsmiths.com/pages/flower.html> that I took earlier this spring at the Biltmore Estate Gardens in Asheville, NC.
Dick
Double WOW ! It looks terrific !
Ray
Leen, I've been paging through your albums and really love your work. I was
curious about your technique on one in particular: it's the 5th image
(counting across and then down) on page 8 of the wedding section. It's a
very striking black-and-white in the true sense of that description - just
black and white, no grays. Did you use posterizing in Elements to create
that? Wonderful shot....!
Chuck
Chuck,
I'm using an Olympus C-700. I use the macro setting for most flower shots, but for this one I backed up a little and zoomed in. That seemed to give a shallower depth of field than macro mode.
Dan
Dan, thanks - I'll have to try that technique!
Chuck
Leen, thanks for the reply. My first few batches of bright sunlight images
were very blown out in the highlights, even at the unadjusted auto-exposure
point. I've set my cameras to default at -1/3 stop when doing sunlight
shots; they wind up a little drab before touchup, but at least the detail in
the highlights is usually preserved. Elements Levels, Curves or even auto
contrast brings back the 'sparkle'...!
Chuck
More flowers,
<http://www.pbase.com/jcarter/flowers_and_nice_stuff>
These are last years.
Jane
Jane, I love 'em all, but the bluelace is extra special. The cluster has so
many colors and textures, and it's perfectly framed by the large blooms.
Amazing! Hope you've printed that one!!
Leen
"Funny, I expected a lot of reactions on the images of the wedding of the
two brides - no grooms involved."
No problem in Canada as we are the third country in the world to recognize
same sex marriages, behind Holland and Belgium if I am not mistaken. I
suspect love is love no matter how you slice it.
Grant
Forgot to mention earlier. PaulL sent me the 4x5 negative frame that surrounds it.
Thanks, Paul, I'm getting to them all, bit by slow.
Dick
Had so much rain here in the NE, that some of our flowers are suffering. Our peonies all had to be staked up. The day lillies will be starting soon, just hope the monsoon stops in time. We had drought conditions last year, so we really can't complain, as the water was really needed.
Jane
Well it's mid-winter here, so I can't offer too much (apart from weeds - it's been too wet to weed the last couple of weeks)
What I have lowering this week you can see here
<http://www.pbase.com/susan_s/winter_garden>
(all pictures taken with a Canon G3)
Susan S.
Very vivid colors and beautifull flowers!
Ray
Susan, terrific! Looks like you and the G3 make a great combination!
Oh how sweet! All your flowers are scrumptious. I'd send one I took this morning except I've just now begun studying up on OUTLOOK so don't know how you put in the word to click on.
Thanks for sharing yours with me.
Marty
Wonder how those flowers would do in the 12 inches of rain we have had in
the past three days?... (Do they float?) All this and not even a
hurricane.
Pete
Thanks Chuck - but I had to take an awful lot of junk before getting some good-stuff - the autofocus is still proving a bit tricky - particulalry with macro shots. In the end I found switching to aperture priority and stopping the lens down to f8 where precise focus is slightly less important worked. Otherewise I'm finding that the blasted lens will always pick a leaf in the background rather than a petal to switch onto - it had terrible trouble with the white petals of the jonquils - I suppose not enough contrast for the AF to work out what it should be doing. I suppose I ought to try the focus bracketing and see if that is useful. So many options on this camera....and it usually takes me about three shots to work out the options I had it set on last time are not the ones I need now...
Susan S
Hi, Pete. Don't feel too bad--it's raining everywhere in FL these days. I was talking to a friend of mine in Orlando this evening and in the background I could hear that his roommate kept yelling something about lobsters. He went to see what the fuss was, and there were crawfish roaming around their back yard, no doubt feeling right at home.
Susan,
The violet is super. Great shots for "mid-winter".
Dick
Pete, I hope you're not in the area that had the extra flooding from the dam floodgates that wouldn't open? Our paper was kind of vague about where exactly that was.
Barbara,
Those reports were from the city I used to live in, Bradenton....Manatee
county. 40 miles north of here. Those people enjoy living by the river
.....most of the time,.... but not now. The mouth of Manatee river is very
wide being only a few miles from the gulf. You have gone over that bridge
over the Manatee river I am sure. It is over a mile long. That river is
the gathering spot for many inland streams and creeks so the worst is yet to
come for those poor folks I think.
An oddity here in times like this is the Myakka River; the river will look
fine when it rains. Three days later the sun will be out but the river is
just beginning to "crest". Then the river dwellers start to scramble as
the inland waters that have gathered just east of the Interstate start
overflowing the banks of the river!
Pete
Hi, Pete. Yes, I remember coming across 70 last summer after whatever that little nothing storm was and being amazed by the Myakka River, and that was over a week after it had passed. The Peace River was up, too, but nothing like that.
Marty,
Hear it both ways. cle 'mat is and 'clem atis.
I learned it from my Mother with the MAT.
go figure, right.
Dick
I am a cle 'mat is type person but all my British friends are 'clem atis
types but I still know what they are saying!
Grant
How about "virgin's (lady's) bower"?
That's what my dutch - English dictionary says . ;-)
I never learned so much as on this forum.
Even my english is improving.
Leen
Grant, i just borrowed a few more of your images to play with ....hope you are Ok with this. They are perfect for 'testers' ;))
Grant i just sent you one that i did with my styles and Shipley's channel mixer. Looks like one of those tacky mother's day cards ?? Na...geeze i hope it doesn't.
OK, I couldn't wait till I learned how to post here so I added some of my flowers to my second rendition of Challenge 20.
Hope someone looks at it ... I am due for another dose of encouragement.
Marty