This past weekend, I attended the Inman Park Festival. Perhaps the highlight of the event was the Inman Park Parade on Saturday afternoon. I've posted the set of images on my Flickr page, but I wanted to highlight my favorites from the parade in the gallery below.
At the moment, if you navigate to the home page of this site, the gallery that loads is that of Yellowstone National Park. Technically, I've included a couple of images in that gallery from the neighboring Grand Teton National Park as well.
But on the way to Yellowstone, there were a number of beautiful stops along the way. I wanted to highlight my post-processing one of these images.
I photograph in RAW and use Adobe Lightroom to import my images. Below, the RAW image as converted to JPEG:
Jackson River in Wyoming. Unprocessed JPEG.
I then exported the image into Adobe Photoshop CS5, where I made a few edits. First, I wanted to make the foreground sharper (the rocks, river, and the plants). Second, I wanted to bring some clarity into the clouds in the sky (it is slightly blown out in the original). The final edit looks like this:
The Jackson River. Edited version.
You'll notice that I've also altered the color of the sky from off-white to blue/purple. I was able to do that by changing my color mode from RGB to Lab in Photoshop (Image --> Mode --> Lab Color). Then I went to the Curves Adjustment tool and selected the "b" channel. From there, all you have to do is pull the curve ever so slightly downward to bring the blue hues into the image. Here's a screenshot:
Screenshot of LAB color mode and a very slight curves adjustment to the "b" curve to bring in the bluish hues.
This is a very simple post-processing technique but I've found it works quite effectively. If I wanted to create a more orange/yellow look, all I have to do is pull the curve in the opposite (up) direction above.
That's my brief photography tutorial of the week. If you have questions, please leave a comment below.
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Note: if you want to see my entire gallery from Yellowstone (including detailed captions), follow this link.
Today, I attended (and photographed) the More or Less book launch event at the 14th Street Playhouse in Atlanta, GA.
Seen in today's entry is Jeff Shinabarger, the main presenter of the night and author of More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity. Through a series of vignettes (videos), the people in attendance got a glimpse of what the book is about (if they hadn't already known, like me) and received some personal insight on how Jeff and his wife channeled their abundance to that of generosity. During the course of the evening, attendees walked up to this big board and put down two things: something they want more of, and something they want less of. There were serious and thought-provoking and, of course, funny entries, a sample of which is below:
Jeff's book launches tomorrow (March 1, 2013), and I received my copy at the event and have started reading it. You can find out more about the book here.
I'll share a couple of more photos from this event in the coming days.
