Founders Plaze at sunset

[Davidtxs]

Took these today if theres camera shake its cos it was COLDDDDDDDD
thanks in advance


Tamron 28 75

Quantaray 70 300

[PeteQ]

I like the first image but it seemed to be too dark for the aircraft colors to come through, but too light to be a silhouette. Made a couple of quick changes after asking David. Anyway, here's a slightly different version...

[Joe_Lorenzini]

You're a brave man!

It gets windy out there as well. I can't imagine how cold it must have been.

Nice shots! Good edit Pete.

_/oe

[Davidtxs]

maybe one day ill figure out photoshop lol

[PeteQ]

David, that was pretty straightforward and you can learn to easily do it in PS or Elements. I simply lowered the overall exposure a bit with the levels adujustment. Of course with PS you do do a lot with ANY image, some good, some not so good! I just wanted to illustrate what I thought I would do to this if it were mine. For instance, you can see that in my example there is some slight banding in the sunset colors. For a more finished look you could blur that area and it would help reduce those bands.

You can tie yourself up for hours in PS if you are not careful!

[petert]

Originally Posted by Davidtxs

Took these today... (snip!)

I've always wanted to take pictures at the airport... but, I'm paranoid (like the NTSB). I was sure that if I showed up at the airport with a camera & tripod, I'd be taken into the airport sub-basement, served bad coffee and stale doughnuts and asked to explain what I was doing... Did you pick up any hassle-factor?

...um, it's a camera... you use it to take pictures...

Hmmm... come with us downtown Mr. Turner.

[PeteQ]

I haven't had any problems. I even took a couple of shots in the new DFW terminal for an upcoming event at the new Hyatt there. No problems so far...

[petert]

Originally Posted by PeteQ

No problems so far...

Maybe they've lightened up some... I've got a few friends in UK/London that have told me that every time there's an "event" (read as: the subway/bus bombings), there's always an uneasy lock-down where if you pull out a camera and look suspicious, you get questioned... I've even read about some photographers being asked to delete their pictures.

I guess we've got it lucky...