Digital Photography Ideas

Monday, February 11, 2008

Old Idea for New Digital Images

Hi Everyone,

Just this week I was asked to submit a portfolio of my landscapes to a New York city gallery. My favorite subjects within landscapes are the skies and tremendous cloud formations here in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since the gallery wants to see everything I have it was important to me to have continuity with the images I took over several months and several locations. I just don't want the buyer to purchase one. I want to sell a series.
I thought I would try adding a sepia tone to all the landscapes I have not previously shown. Here are the before images:

And here are the sepia toned after images.

the finished size of the images are 25 inches x 17 inches.
there is no cutting and pasting involved. I did clean up a few signs and removed a house if it distracted as you can see in the first image.
any comments or questions reply to this blog.

How did I do it?

In Adobe Photoshop open your image.
Go to Image then Adjust then Desaturate
Next Go to Image then Adjust then Variations.
Move the Fine<.....>Coarse slider to the left -- one notch from the middle.
Click on more yellow once.
Click on more red once.
Click OK.

I found a few ways to bump up the image before turning to sepia tone.
I'll be making a short video of how I did that for my subscribers--for free.
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~Ruth

P.S.
I saw this camera for $59.97. It's a Norcent DCC-725 Digital Camera - 7.0 Megapixel, 3x Optical Zoom, 4x Digital Zoom, 2.5" LCD.
I have never seen a 7.0 megapixel camera at this low of a price.
Now I can keep an extra camera in my the trunk of my car for those unexpected kodak moments!