This image had a fair bit of post camera help. Strangely the first step was reducing the saturation level to try and get some detail in the petals, which were completely blocked. This from the Canon Powershot A-550.
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Photo Of The Day - January 2021
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Thanks - would you recommend AI over 4 - and do you use 4 in combination with Photos?
You may want to do the trial version of Capture One - I liked it. However I chose LR due to its mobile integration.
Flower parked b/w
x100t f/8 1/125 500 -- Back alley walk about.
x100t f/8 1/125 500 -- Back alley walk about.
Thanks - I'll look at that one too. I don't use Lightroom often (maybe 1 or 2 times a month) but I do like the results, so it will be hard to move from it. I'm also looking to get an iPad so there is that capability available if I stay with Lightroom.
I used 4 with Photos and other apps, and AI will replace it. I mainly process my raw files in Capture One Pro (Fuji). ‘Creative’ edits are in Luminar.
I used Luminar 3 but never got around to getting Luminar 4, so when Luminar AI came along I bought it as I do like certain tools in Luminar, especially the Erase tool. I primarily edit in DXO PhotoLab 4 and then sometimes will add finishing touches in Luminar.
There are or were issues with Big Sur and Luminar 3 and Luminar 4, when one tries to export an edited image and the program crashes. I experienced that with Luminar 3 so stopped using it. When Luminar AI came along, no problems with exporting images after editing them. I store my image files on external drives only after I have worked on them, so in my situation, I edit new images on the computer on the internal drive, and export from Luminar AI to the desktop. After that once I have finished anything else I am going to do with the image, I then transfer all the edited images and the RAW files to my photo folders on external drives.
By way of documentation of the natural history for the photogenic teenage cygnets, this is their fluffy selves in July 2020. iPhone 7.
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What is it? Reminds me of the prisoner.
Thanks - sounds like going to AI would be a better choice than going with Luminar 4. Thinking that since AI isn't that expensive, I'll just get that and see how I like it before my Lightroom account runs out in April.
I keep all of my files on an external SSD. I haven’t had any issues from Mojave, Catalina or Big Sur.
Exporting has always been dreadfully slow. That’s one of the main reasons I don’t use it as my main editor.
There is a sculpture with three large concrete balls ("Giant Pool Balls") at the Aasee in Münster. The other two are in my first picture this month.
What adjustment would I need to do within the Photo app in order that the adult is not so white?
Most likely your image was overexposed when it was taken and that area is unrecoverable with no detail. If you shoot manual mode, the use spot metering and meter so the white bird is +1 overexposed.
you probably used matrix metering or similar, and the camera tried to balance the white bird with the dark background and averaged them together. However you are smarter than your camera and know that you want the bird to be properly exposed so if you choose your own settings, then you can preserve the highlights. ?
Apologies if you know this already. But editing won’t fix the bird in this particular image.
One more from Pacific Grove. An hour later and there would've been a lot of people on the beach. This early, just the one who looked a little like he was enjoying a morning toot. (Can't tell in this pic.)
Archive: Hovenweep National Monument, CO (circa July 2015):
Shot on a Canon PowerShot SD1100. Resized and exported in Luminar 4.
Shot on a Canon PowerShot SD1100. Resized and exported in Luminar 4.