I'm trying to reconstruct this post! When I scanned this slide I got the exact look of it - which is the top picture. The shot was a super idea: on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, in bright sun, I shot a display window of crystal, that had a mirrored back in which the ocean and sky and boardwalk were reflected. To my EYE, it was fabulous. But the intensity of the light flummoxed the poor camera and things went caflooey. Using Adobe Photoshop Elements 4, I "corrected" the lighting and made the second picture.
Vox (or something????)ate most of what I wanted to say. Gosh -- other people have mentioned having that happen, but it's my first time with it. GRRRRRRRRRRRR.
*shakes fist at the compose whoosits for messing up the post*
The original isn't very exciting (except for the glops of oily, scummy water), and I don't think that the edited ones will make other people shriek with delight, either. But I like looking at all of them. The black and white versions are especially interesting to me. Not sure why. I used basic enhancing tools in Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 -- ones that I never tried before. Cool.
If you click a couple of times, you'll see her face and the details of her outfit!
Thanks to BeautifuIBizarroBunny I learned how to use three new tools/effects: magic wand tool, magnetic lasso tool and edge control. YAY!!
I got my old tripod out of the bottom of the closet and put it to work. Wow. It likes my Canon -- I was afraid it wouldn't. And some of the old skills came back, slowly. Not enough to make these any good, but enough to tell me there's hope.
I set the camera to Manual and then tried a few settings that i haven't tried before, since the Image Stabilization System is good but not more powerful than a l-o-n-g exposure time.
This is what I thought it looked like:
The car roof is in the way.
The horizon is too tiny.
The other cars are too prominent.
The light pole is tippy.
The electric/phone pole thing is centered.
Just pathetic.
Today I'm going to select a software at random and try to "fix" this. We'll see how it goes.
Right now I have no clue what to do with it, other than trashing the poor thing.
