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19 June 2024 “How I’d Edit” & Architecture: Cathy

Cathy has been busy submitting photos to the San Diego Fair Photography contest and winning. We’ll have to setup a page of her award winning photos since she does the group proud. This month she shared several architectural photos to fit the theme:

19 June 2024 “How I’d Edit” & Architecture: Jim

Jim enjoys using Lightroom and Photoshop along with other digital darkroom tools to bring out the best in an image. Practicing processing Milky Way images taken during his recent trip to Yosemite. He’s been learning how to use Starnet++ and StarXterminator with Siril to separate the Milky Way nebula from the stars. This allows the Milky Way to be processed independently from the stars, as separate layers.
For architectural photography, Jim watched a few tutorials on how to convert architectural images into ‘fine art black&white’. So many of the images he shared this month, were black&white high contrast, dark sky images.

15 May 2024 Before/After Theme: Jim

Jim shared recent images from his April trip to Yosemite with fellow photographer Gary. Here are his before and after images. He did some astrophotography of the Milky Way over Half Dome that he is still editing. But included below are two sets of initial edits.

15 May 2024 Before/After Theme: Cathy

Cathy uses a Canon camera and iPhone for her photography. Post-processing is done in Lightroom and Photoshop. Cathy’s been experimenting with Photoshop 2024’s AI generative fill tool to improve composition. She also used Lightroom’s masking and overall image tools to bring out specific details or remove unwanted elements.