Hello All,
Here are my
Notes from the 05/16/2021 meeting of SLO Bytes' Photo Group
TOPIC: Vivid Color; The meeting took place via Zoom
In the
First Segment,
Stanford Brown looked back at flowers, landscapes and structures from around the world, each with one or more dominant colors.
Alan Raul followed, shifting focus to harbors of California's Central Coast featuring Coast Guard vessels private craft
John Waller , using extensive color masking, shared images of aircraft, fire engines, and landscapes.
Alan Raul opened the
Second Session displaying flowers and lawn art. His images are available on-line here
Ralph Sutter treated today's session as an opportunity to enhance the colors of flowers and children's toys
Stanford Brown shared many very vivid flowers
Kaye Raul also found colorful flowers as well as brightly colored buildings and gates. She enhanced these scenes by selective color removal.
Connie Sutter contributed images of fruit trees and flowers
In the
Third Session,
Ralph called attention to Adobe's
Digital Negative Converter, free software that allows image editors to manipulate RAW photos when the software does not natively convert the camera that produced those images.
Kaye showed how she selectively removed color from photos using Selective Color.
She offered the following documentation
in
Luminar -
https://jimnix.com/blog/2019/3/13/selective-color-in-luminar in
Lightroom -
https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-easily-create-selective-color-using-lightroom/ in
Luminar AI -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPLMD0KWn9MJohn demonstrated how he used both
Adobe Photoshop and
Adobe Lightroom to highlight a single color and convert others to grey. He explained the workings of Adobe's
object selection toolOur next meeting will take place on
June 13th beginning at 1:00 pm
The topic is
Favorite Images from Nature; Please share scenes of a place free from human interaction
Ralph Sutter
