Ben Cochran
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Great thread!!!!!!!!! This is one of the best threads that I have read on any of the flyfishing sites, in a very long time.. really enjoyed this one several times!!
Zach, some good quality poster board will work fine as well. Do the same technique as mentioned with plenty of defused light.. You can then adjust the white through the colour select tool.. You already know about white balance so, I left that out… Couple of examples
I was moving some photo files around and these 2 were sitting next to each other. I was going to delete them as I didn’t like the way they turned out but I noticed the “No Parking” sign in one of them and decided that it may be a bit funny if I stiched and post edited them together in a single format. I know that it is a rather strange thing to do to a photograph but I do kind of like the final result :)… I actually had one person ask where I took the picture because they wanted to go and see these strange rail road tracks..LMAO!!!!
jpavoncello,
I do the same as you but I use Adobe Bridge. Granted, it isn’t the best for RAW but I can load the files and watch them as a slide show. During the slide show, I can rate each picture from 0-5 and then go back and preview a selection of rated files. Also, the program allows one to color code each picture and then stacks the files per colour code. As you mentioned, batch editing can then be conducted in CS2 but in Bridge; you only need to double click the files and they will automatically open in CS2.
All of the metadata can be added and/or changed in Bridge with all of the IPTC information that you mentioned. By using this process in Bridge, one can search a file description and it will create the pseudo file with all images that have the key word in the IPTC, if it has been added.
You are very correct that a well planned and routine process will greatly reduce the amount of tme required in post editing.
Thanks Zach :)! The frustrting part is that I do all of my work on a lap top and a touch pad mouse…Actually this picture looks terrible in the post as it really degraded in the down sizing. I used more layers than I can remember and as far as tools, I used a lot of them as well. I had to carry in the shadows so I cloned some areas and used the healing brush as well as gradiant maps in certain areas. I also had to use the selection brush to tone the selected colors in selected areas only. multiple mask layers were also used as well as careful crops and paste. If you notice in front of the mill, on the primary water side, I also carried the plants to the front and then had to mask the shadows onto the water so that they would blend naturally. Removing the sign was the easy part but blending the shadows and tones were more deficult. A lot of this was perfomed by the selection tool and adjusting exposure values.
The actuall print is pretty good but this downsized copy really fell apart as it lost vital data.
The post edited CS2 file from above: I have got to figure the multiple pic functions here lol.. As Zach stated again. The program isn’t the best for down sizing to the internet and most of the data is lost this way. The original picture is about 9.7mg and it really looks terrible at 180kb.
I have been reading along here for many months, really like the site Zach: Great job!! I wanted to respond to this thread as I am a HUGE fan of CS2. It is a very complex program and requires study as though it is a college course. Almost everything can be done in this program and the calibrations are compicated but there. Like Zach, I use many different programs including Lightroom Beta which I am still not completly sold on. One can basically do everything in CS2 but it requires more study than just the owners manual, there are shelves of books on this software at B&N, Amazon and so on. It really isn’t all the web friendly, as Zach stated, but for print it is fantastic!
I took the liberty of posting a terrible picture to illustrate how even a bad photograph can be saved into an OK print… IMHO: If one is willing to study several books on CS2, you will be amazed at what it does.
