Only Child
by Chez

Comment:
Good concept! And the presentation is also very good.

Stay Away
by lebowski

Comment:
Very minimal. Ouch!

a grey day in monterey
by kmbr2001

Comment:
My first impression was: the colours are just too rich for a grey day. I like this shot, I like how the person is walking out of the picture, and I love the red umbrella.

Move the telly mate!
by Ecce_Signum

Comment:
Congratulations! Good placement, and a beautiful photo. I wish it would have gone over 6 (sooooo close) :(

Ursula

Care Free
by Jean

Comment:
Many congratulations, Jean, on a wonderful picture!

the old barn
by ursula

Comment:

Originally posted by e301: Fill-flash, Ursula? I'm still in PSP8 world, where that doesn't exist - but I'm guessing it's a kind of automated selective lightening thing, yes? So you can shoot under-exposed and use it to bring back details in darker/shadow areas?

Yeah, that's pretty much what it does, but IMO it's not so much to bring back detail in an under-exposed picture, but to lighten up areas in shade. Under-exposure I'd try to remedy when converting from RAW. PSP9 also has a "backlighting" fixing option, which (duh!) darkens the very bright areas of the photo, but, IMO, doesn't work all that well. PSP9 also allows you to pull in RAW pictures directly to PSP, and allows to adjust WB, exposure and sharpness. I have no idea how it compares to other software to do the same thing.

Message edited by author 2005-04-20 19:46:59.

alone by the sea
by JohannesFrank

Comment:
Congratulations. Beautiful shot!

vir2.jpg
by JohannesFrank

Comment:
Oh, wow, what a beautiful, artistic photo!

M.C. Escher's Boyhood House
by mariomel

Comment:
This was my favourite of the challenge. I love this shot! Congratulations.

the old barn
by ursula

Comment:
Thank you all, very much. Last Sunday/Monday my daughter and I were driving to Jackson, WY, for a Conference, and I thought, maybe, just maybe, if I got up real early on Tuesday before the Conference started and drove out to Mormon Road in the Tetons, and got a decent shot of the barn with the Tetons behind it, maybe it would do well in this challenge.

Well, I got up real early, drove out to the Tetons, had to fight for place with four other photographers (he, he, this is the most photographed barn in the USA), drove back, attended morning sessions at the Conference; uploaded and processed over lunch, and here it is.

I used this one instead of another I liked better (better sky), because the other showed sensor dust in the sky (and basic editing rules ...). This one hides it in the clouds (lucky!). There isn't much post-processing (no time really). I straightened very slightly, cropped a bit, adjusted histogram and levels, used clarify and fill-flash (PSP9). Resized and sharpened. That's it. I did a bit more work on the printable version, to get the sky a bit more intense.

Thanks again!

Ursula