Dowager Duchess
©Joe BridwellAncient hat on her head,
Brim pulled low against setting sun,
Brown purse clutched tightly beside formless dress,
the Dowager Duchess presses on,
As if to Her Majesties Royal Guard drummers…
Runner Up
Dowager Duchess came in a close 2nd in my own selections for submission to Darwin Wiggett n the recent Intimate Landscape’s workup .
Somehow, after starting a piece, I seem to find a title or competition name most apt for each image. I must admit, Bisti Mosaic did take a while to jell.
But, our Dowager Duchess came easily, perhaps influenced by many pleasant years watching Masterpiece Theatre.
Rat-ta-tat-TAT
As pleasant, if not much more so, is the exciting new TAT tool (Targeted Adjustment Tool in CS4). We’ve talked about it in prior blogs…
TAT is a slider based tool which works in Curves and Hue-Saturation-Luminance. Click on TAT (hand icon with finger up), move cursor over color you wish to change (Tone Map), and move up or down to quickly get your setting just right. If you're working HSL - move right or left. TAT’s really powerful – Adobe has set TAT up to work on more than one slider at a time. Clearly, this is a remarkable, time-saving tool…
Bisti Hoodoos
Not to forget – we took this Bisti image about sunset in late October. The Bisti Badlands is located south of Farmington and northwest of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. It’s hoodoos provide amazingly surreal, off-world imagery!
Working in combination with Lightroom 2 and CS4, both Dowager Duchess and Bisti Mosaic were easily tone mapped and prepared for competition as Intimate Landscapes…
Enjoy…
Dowager Duchess came in a close 2nd in my own selections for submission to Darwin Wiggett n the recent Intimate Landscape’s workup .
Somehow, after starting a piece, I seem to find a title or competition name most apt for each image. I must admit, Bisti Mosaic did take a while to jell.
But, our Dowager Duchess came easily, perhaps influenced by many pleasant years watching Masterpiece Theatre.
Rat-ta-tat-TAT
As pleasant, if not much more so, is the exciting new TAT tool (Targeted Adjustment Tool in CS4). We’ve talked about it in prior blogs…
TAT is a slider based tool which works in Curves and Hue-Saturation-Luminance. Click on TAT (hand icon with finger up), move cursor over color you wish to change (Tone Map), and move up or down to quickly get your setting just right. If you're working HSL - move right or left. TAT’s really powerful – Adobe has set TAT up to work on more than one slider at a time. Clearly, this is a remarkable, time-saving tool…
Bisti Hoodoos
Not to forget – we took this Bisti image about sunset in late October. The Bisti Badlands is located south of Farmington and northwest of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. It’s hoodoos provide amazingly surreal, off-world imagery!
Working in combination with Lightroom 2 and CS4, both Dowager Duchess and Bisti Mosaic were easily tone mapped and prepared for competition as Intimate Landscapes…
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