Fun With Post Processing of Scarborough Faire

[brad]

So I thought I'd take some of the images of "things" from Faire this year and apply some of the post processing techniques I learned at Texas School to them.... here are a few I liked...

Splendid Hats


Garlands, $18.00


That Building is Watching Me


I am a Leaf on the Wind (Geek points to those that know what that's from .. thanks HHG)


Soap Bubble Reflections

[mkothare]

Beautiful results. Splendid hats and I am a leaf on the wind are my favorites though I do not qualify for the geek points :-)

[brad]

Thanks .. It was fun shooting something other than people.. and then go outside my normal box on post.

[JenJohnson79]

Great detail shots. The last one is my favorite. . . nice catch.

[brad]

Heheh, thanks.. do you have any idea how hard it is to catch bubbles in focus while they are in the air? LOL There's nothing for the autofocus to lock onto!

[Jeff Lane]

First -- I really like the hats.

Second -- I tried to do that bubble thing several months ago, and after an hour and a half of cussing and fussing, I just gave up. How do you EVER get a sharp focus on the reflections?

[Joe_Lorenzini]

Very creative Brad. Wish you did more of this stuff, you're good at it.

Joe

[JenJohnson79]

Originally Posted by brad

Heheh, thanks.. do you have any idea how hard it is to catch bubbles in focus while they are in the air? LOL There's nothing for the autofocus to lock onto!

about as hard as it is to catch little kids!

[jeffkohn]

Love the bubble shot, the reflections are incredible.

[doctahjones]

geek - watch how i soar. that was a great movie, although i never watched the series.

i love the bubble one! i've been wanting to try to get something like that. how big was that bubble? the little ones are always too fast for me to catch...

[MRCPix]

great work Brad. that bubble is very cool however I like the building that is watching you.

[dtscds]

I really like the building.

so what are these fantastic processing tricks you are speaking of? Anything that rocked your Photoshop world?

[LEATHERNECK]

Good stuff.........

[TexasPhotoBooth]

Those are soooooooooooooo cool!!!

[brad]

Thanks, everyone... the bubble seems to be popular (here and in PM).. getting perfect focus was lucky, they move pretty fast.. I shot maybe 5 bubbles to get this one.. and they were big, coming off of one of those big wands.

It was shot with my 70-200 2.8L lens, just like all the others.. caught it in air, with trees in the distance as background... I shot several bubbles as the shop owner sent them floating across the Fairegrounds.. and this was the best focus.. here is the shot straight out of camera, with no enhancements at all..



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Originally Posted by Joe_Lorenzini

Very creative Brad. Wish you did more of this stuff, you're good at it.

Joe

Thanks, Joe.. I'm planning to, actually. That class at Texas School got me thinking differently and looking at things differently.

As for Post Processing techniques.. it was a week long class, so we did a lot of different things.. and its a combination of applying those that was used here. I'm not sure I could even remember everything I did to it, but it took about 15 minutes total.