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Just out driving, looking for Wheels...

 

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Recent work that seemed to go together. 

 

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FYI

 Here is the revised version of the image I posted before.  I appreciated your comments and agree it looks better with a little more wall above and a very slight bit more on the sides.  

 We are Nashville - Wheat pasting - taken after the tornado of 2020

 We Are Nashville - Images by Phillip Holsinger

Here's some images from the Nashville installation on a fence of We are Nashville. 

https://www.wearenashville.com/journey/

Before and After

 

Before and After

 

Before and After

 

Your thoughts?

 I'm thinking about entering the black and white magazine smartphone contest and would appreciate your thoughts on which of the two images below would be better for entry.

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It's Springtime and wildflowers are blooming, so I cannot resist the urge to shoot a few. This was a Hepatica blooming in my backyard. Sometimes the blossom is blue, or light pink, but usually just white. It depends on the soil.

Post Processing...

I'm sure among the six of us Foto Friends, I know much less about using Photoshop than any of the rest of you--way less! I've always mostly used Lightroom, as far back as the second version of it. And even then I never learned how to use it "properly". Rather than learn from the manual, I played with it, experimented, and by trial and error I figured out how to process my images. I still do that today, and that is why I shudder at the very thought of trying to replicate a project or a Photoshop "assignment" born out of one of our meetings.

I tend to know when I take a picture what I'd like to get as the end result. A lot of the time it works and I can achieve that, but again sometimes it doesn't. As you all know, I really enjoy shooting candid black and white portraits. So, here are a few that by manipulating the Lightroom sliders, dodging and burning a bit, and a few other simple things, they worked out pretty well. All of you probably have seen some, or all, of these "processed" images, but I'm sure none have seen the images "out of the camera".

Straight out of camera

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Straight out of camera

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Straight out of camera

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Straight out of camera

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Straight out of camera

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