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Anderson Landing Preserve - Kitsap Peninsula/Hood Canal/Puget Sound -Washington ©2006 Ed Book On the way home from an appointment in town, I stopped by Anderson Landing Preserve to walk a little and scout for some compositions carrying the Pentax S40 in my pocket vice the Canon system and pack...
While concentrating on making an image, a gentle voice startled me, I hadn't seen or heard someone approach. It was a nice lady who lives nearby out also for an evening walk and gliding along the trail, she didn't want to startle me.
I introduced myself and asked if I might include her in an image of the trail. I told her that I'd send her a photo if she found me via google or whatever 'didn't have a card or model release in my pocket like I do in the pack that I wasn't carrying... here she is continuing her walk...
Peace Tags: -print available-, abstract, digital manipulation, digital painting, forest, green, kitsap peninsula, landscape, trail, trees
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There's a photo over in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) alpenglo that this poll refers to... Poll #678545 Where's the bridge
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14 Where is this bridge
View Answersit's the bridge across the Beaver River in Beaver Falls, crossing to Eastvale where my Uncle Stan had a boat named Nosmo King
   1 (7.1%) this isn't really a bridge, I manufactured it in Photoshop from parts of other images
1 (7.1%) if you knew the person in the vehicle in front of me, you might know that this isn't in Kansas any more
3 (21.4%) I made it quake-y because it fell in an earth quake
1 (7.1%) it's the original Galloping Gertie
0 (0.0%) it crosses the Mississippi... way way upstream
0 (0.0%) no, it's not the Mississippi, it's the Missouri
1 (7.1%) neener neener, it's neither, it's the Tenneessee
1 (7.1%) it's a toll bridge and I do know the guy in the vehicle on the bridge
2 (14.3%) the first time I crossed this bridge, I was on a motorcycle, the second time I photographed the tallest waterfalls in two states on the same day, the third time I crossed, I had been awake for way too long...
4 (28.6%) there's a photo of this bridge in Erin's LJ It's at McConnel's Mill
0 (0.0%) Dave should post a photo of this bridge in his journal, I think he may have a photo of it--he likes to photograph bridge types of mechanisms
2 (14.3%) this is the first crossing of the Snake, so it's called "first crossing"
1 (7.1%) believe it or not, this bridge was replaced by a covered bridge
0 (0.0%) I'll bet my Uncle Stan crossed this bridge on his motorcycle
3 (21.4%) this isn't where I met the three 'festive' Santas
1 (7.1%) Delaware Water Gap
1 (7.1%) Union Gap across the Yakima River near Dan Dornick's hometown
0 (0.0%) this bridge made history when Bonnie and Clyde were apprehended in the center of the bridge and Bonnie jumped off into the water and was caught by a K9
0 (0.0%) this bridge across the Sacramento River was the first condemned bridge in California
1 (7.1%) now, I'm really confused, or is that you who's confused
2 (14.3%) I got a ticket on this bridge for going 20mph, 30% over the speed limit
2 (14.3%) this bridge was built from aluminum scavenged from the superstructure of decommissioned US Navy guided missle frigates
0 (0.0%) Hood Canal Bridge
1 (7.1%) Agate Pass Bridge
0 (0.0%) Deception Pass Bridge between Canoe Island and Fidalgo Island
0 (0.0%) none of the above
2 (14.3%) it crosses between Keystone and Port Townsend
0 (0.0%) between Moab and Arches... the mighty Colorado... deep and narrow
0 (0.0%) Peace Tags: digital manipulation, phot expd, poll
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ohhhh, look at all the bad merges... a "merge" is where an element in the foreground crosses over the edge of elements in the background or the image edge... sometimes, they detract from the image like in this one where the trees at the top are cut off unnaturally by the top of the frame. another bad merge is the far left piling and where the seagull crosses the edge of the trees in the background. Not all merges are bad though like where the merges look natural because they stand out from the background or leave the frame as expected. There are other bad merges... can anyone name a few... or one? class? class? the offending merges in this image can be fixed in Photoshop by cropping and cloneing but the photographer should have noticed them when the camera was at his eye and moved the camera to eliminate them... he (I) wasn't always careful in composing images... 
Dewatto rain - Kitsap Peninsula, WA ©1976 Ed Book
Bruce B sometimes posts images from a location in Massachusetts with pilings similarily arranged... anyone notice? neener neener, Bruce, I was first ;) I should mention that close examination of both images shows that the first images is much sharper... because I was taking a break from other work and was playing, I downloaded the online low res JPG image to modify instead of trying to find the master file TIFF or PSD to work on... had I been seriously been interested in producing something to use, I would certainly have used the high res master... or scanned the film again... so much of my journal images are just side play and don't give a representative idea of my volume of work. Peace Tags: -print available-, digital manipulation, kitsap peninsula, waterflow
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The senario: Chinook Pass... I am standing early morning on a rock in the middle of a stream so as not to crush the delicate plants in the meadow with my camera in front of me on the tripod... I look at the scene and shake my head wondering how I'm going to compress the range of light in front of me onto the three stop range of Velvia film. The light on Yakima Peak metered and compared to the light hitting the plants at my feet in the shade is greater than 7 stops... No way can Velvia handle both in the same exposure... but wait, I've got something up my sleeve, or rather on my computer at home... my solution: to make two exposures of the same scene in the exact registration--one exposure spot-metered on something I want to be 'medium' on the the slopes of Yakima Peak--probably the green grass on the slope. The second exposure I meter the green foliage in the foreground. Here are the results of the two exposures:   Now, at home, I scan both images (Nikon LS-4000ED film scanner) and bring both images into the same file as separate layers. There are a number of ways to merge the two images using the proper parts of each but I'll discuss just one of them here--the use of a mask. First, I adjusted the mountain photo with an adjustment layer to tweak the levels to where I like them... (I assigned the adjustment layer to only the layer I was adjusting.) Then I adjusted the other layer in the same manner. The next step would be to mask away the area on the top layer to allow the bottom layer to show through. To do this I chose the mask button at the bottom of the layers palette and then used the paint brush tool to 'paint away the area I didn't want'... to do this, I painted with black in the top layer on the image where I wanted the area on the bottom layer to show through and where I overpainted, switched to white to paint it back out again... I had to experiment with brush hardness and opacity for fine tuning and eventually best of both images would display... The next thing to do then was to make a merged layer (from the layer palette menu accessed by clicking the little triangle at the top of the palette, choose 'new layer' and then, while holding down the option (Mac) (alt-PC) key, select 'merge' from the layers palette menu so that the other layers aren't lost when merging layers.) Some adjusting of the merged layer for levels, saturation, and photo filter (new in Photoshop CS and well worth the price of the upgrade) and the image is finished... I did this image quickly (read that sloppily) to show the effect but when I get time, I'll do it right. (that might be a while because of all the things on my plate right now.  Peace Tags: digital manipulation, landscape, mount rainier, mountains
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 'on keeping with no snow posting today... I made this photograph almost 27 years ago about five miles from here at Seabeck Bay. A fishing boat had been purposely run aground so the bottom could be scraped free of barnacles and other clingy stuff... I happened along that morning after a long and hyper night shift at the shipyard doing some very noisy and high energy steam safety valve testing on one of the nuc ships. I was too wired to go to sleep so took a drive to make some photographs. I found this scene when I was walking along the water's edge and was particularly drawn to the reddish color in the Red Alder forest... the catkins were forming as they do mid-winter every year... an early harbinger of spring. I should mention that this image was made with a Bronica S2A medium format camera with some unremembered print film. A printed version was displayed on the wall for many years and then thinking it beyond it's photograph life from fading, I removed it... later to scan on a flatbed scanner to revive the image by using it as the basis for a digital watercolor painting. Of course, it looks totally different in full size on paper... here the colors look blocky and blotchy...some things that display well on paper don't see justice in small compressed jpgs... Peace Tags: -print available-, about me, digital manipulation, digital painting, forest, kitsap peninsula, landscape, nautical, puget sound, trees, waterflow, winter
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