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Where have we been lately? There's been no posts in almost a month (give or take). Well, for most of that time I've just been lazy, but for ten days we were running around the great state of Maine. It helps to have friends. Doris has reconnected with someone we went to high school (a long time ago) with. She just happens to have a house in Maine, on the ocean, with a direct view of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. For the second year she's just tossed us the key to the front door and said "go have fun". We did. We spent seven days at her beautiful place. (Thanks J.) We've been going to Maine every October for at least the past ten years and before that we'd go at other times of the year. There's been two "bucket list" targets in Maine for a while now. One was shooting West Quoddy Head Lighthouse and the other checking out (and shooting) Baxter State Park. Got to do both this year and I'm guessing you can tell today's image is not from the lighthouse. To see how the colors were drawn out of today's image, hit the "Read More".
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I'm reasonably good at making Masks. I use Adobe Photoshop's (PS) Quick Selection Tool (W) and Topaz Labs' Remask and PS's Calculations. Whatever is the best tool for the task at hand. But, sometimes things slip through the cracks or are too much trouble to bother with. Take a look at today's image. There's a lot of fringe down at the bottom of the dancer's regalia. The background was a mess. People standing around, other dancers, banners, tents, evergreen boughs, speakers, and all sorts of other "stuff". The fringe wasn't a big problem to extract. The big deal was tiny tips of the feathers and pom-pom in the headdress. To find out what the solution was (at least the solution I used) to "getting" the detail, hit the "Read More".
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Well, it's that time of the year again. Time for Scott Kelby's World Wide Photowalk. I've participated in each year's walk. Six as a walk leader (this will be the seventh) and last year we were attendees in two walks while we were in Maine. One in the morning in Acadia National Park and an evening walk around Boothbay Harbor. You can see the result of both places in one image if you look back through about a year's worth of posts. This year I'm back to leading a walk. A group that has been fairly faithful walkers asked me why I wasn't leading a walk last year and encouraged me to resume this year. They've traveled a fair distance to be walkers, but I guess this year I pushed it too far. Just in case you're curious and don't recognize the skyline in today's image, find out where our walk is this year by hitting the "Read More".
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I'm reasonably good at making Masks. I use Adobe Photoshop's (PS) Quick Selection Tool (W) and Topaz Labs' Remask and PS's Calculations. Whatever is the best tool for the task at hand. But, sometimes things slip through the cracks or are too much trouble to bother with. Take a look at today's image. There's a lot of fringe down at the bottom of the dancer's regalia. The background was a mess. People standing around, other dancers, banners, tents, evergreen boughs, speakers, and all sorts of other "stuff". The fringe wasn't a big problem to extract. The big deal was tiny tips of the feathers and pom-pom in the headdress. To find out what the solution was (at least the solution I used) to "getting" the detail, hit the "Read More".
