Editing of Potential Calendar Shots 2016

[F, Calla & Luca]

If you would like critiques and/or help with editing of potential calendar shots post them here. Members often volunteer to help. Please post the original photo unedited if you want help. The helper will probably ask you to email the original photo. Before you ask for help on your photos read the Guidelines for the calendar and keep them in mind when taking photos and when posting here. Remember to take the best quality, ie large file size and highest resolution your camera can take.

http://www.doodlekisses.com/page/calendar-photo-requirements

An easy way to see if your photo meets the minimum calendar requirements is to use Jeffrey's exif viewer.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

You can pop your photo's URL in the proper place and you will get lots of metadata including # of pixels. there is a ton of information but the number of pixels is what you need. Calendar pictures must be 2300 pixels wide by 1800 pixels high.

Example:

Jeffrey Friedl's Image Metadata Viewer 
(How to use)

Note: extra functionality is enabled when you useFirefox or another Gecko-based browser..

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Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer

[CLEAR IMAGE]

Basic Image Information

Target image: https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/93590269?profil... Artist: Picasa Camera: Nikon D750 Lens: AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Shot at 62 mm (shot wide open) Exposure: Auto exposure, Shutter priority AE, 1/3,200 sec, f/4.8, ISO 1000 Flash: Off, Did not fire Focus: AF-A, at 6.7m, with a depth of field of about 3.5m, (from about 1.3mbefore the focus point to about 2.2m after) AF Area Mode: Dynamic Area (9 points) Date: July 15, 2016   2:10:37PM (timezone not specified) (1 month, 9 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes, 31 seconds ago, assuming image timezone of 4 hours behind GMT) Time Zone Offset: -04:00 File: 4,427 × 2,955 JPEG (13.1 megapixels)    11,079,038 bytes (10.6 megabytes) Color Encoding: WARNING: Color space tagged as sRGB, without an embedded color profile. Windows and Mac browsers and apps treat the colors randomly. Images for the web are most widely viewable when in the sRGB color space and with an embedded color profile. See my Introduction to Digital-Image Color Spaces for more information. Apply other tools to this image via ImgOps.com

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Congratulations, F.  I am excited for you!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Thanks.

[Nancy and Georgia Brown]

I agree with F.

If you shoot both, and go through your images and see one that you really like, just save only that RAW file. 

FYI. Lightroom is really tremendous. I would start there vs photoshop. I use it for 95% of my work, and I'm a photoshop pro. What I like is that it makes looking at your files, editing them, doing minor corrections so fast. There is no opening and closing and saving of files. It easily saves me at least 75% of the time vs viewing them in bridge and editing in photoshop. There is a bit of learning curve for the file structure, but some great online classes. And so many youtube videos and google search results that can help when you are stuck. Okay I will stop now.

[Donna K & Quincy]

I did download a 7 day free trial but it wasn't nearly enough time to try and figure things out. I couldn't even find the brushes in PS. Winter is coming there will be a lot of indoor time and I'll have no excuse.

[F, Calla & Luca]

It seems to me the tools have been changed with one of their periodic updates. I had to search around and learn some new features. All good for the brain I guess.

[Camilla and Darwin]

Arg, I need to start using Lightroom! My workflow is SO tedious and slow right now. I'm editing through like 300 wedding photos and each image takes me 10-20 minutes. :-(

[F, Calla & Luca]

I ought a Lightroom course and it was excellent. I don't use Lightroom because you need to spend some time setting it up to your needs and then keep up. But with your volume it would be great.

[Donna K & Quincy]

Wow, thank you DJ. This is kind of like last year, the shot that I wasn't considering until the last few days was the one chosen.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Often the way.

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

Donna, what a great shot and the edits - great too!  It's a winner, I'll bet! 

[Sam&Bella]

I love this picture! So cute!

[Joani, Skadi & Elli]

Gorgeous edit