No wasting gas anymore thanks to Photoshop!
The first train trip I took where I paid for the ticket was in 1973, Amtrak from Houston to New Orleans. The scenery was almost nothing but graffiti. Although I’ve ridden everything that Amtrak offers in the United States, I’ve never taken that route again even though the entrance into New Orleans on the Huey P. Long Bridge made the whole trip worthwhile.
There are areas in San Diego that are covered with graffiti, but this city has more murals than any city I’ve ever been in. Here is one of them:
I used to wish I knew where I took that. Used to…… It’s an old picture taken with a GE Point & Shoot about a decade ago. Maybe the mural doesn’t even exist anymore. The picture was a throwaway photo, good only for documentation purposes because it was overexposed, had no contrast, and wasn’t sharp.
If you’re reading this and thinking “That’s not a throwaway photo!”, well, I agree with you. I now like it because I used Photoshop to solve its many problems. The technique I used is one I discussed in a recent post (I just want bright & sharp photos with high contrast).
Now I don’t have to drive around anymore wasting gas trying to find that mural!
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Posted on July 8, 2012, in Adobe, Digital photo editing, Manmade, Photos and tagged street murals in san diego. Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.
The high pass technique rocks!!! I’ve been playing with it in different ways since i read your entry. Thanks
I enjoy the train, and I took the NO-Houston route on my honeymoon a couple years ago. I think it got dark after we entered Texas, but I remember the Louisiana portion of the trip being very pretty. Give it a second shot.
I resisted RAW and post processing for years but now take everything in RAW and can’t imagine ever getting by without Lightroom – has saved many a photo of mine!!
I take RAW + JPG but I’m still trying to remember why. I rarely use the RAW file. I find it’s faster just to go to the JPG since it has better color, contrast, sharpness to start with, and all I’m doing right now is putting pictures on the Internet. At least I’ll have the RAW files for posterity…….Wait! There is no posterity! Well, maybe for using in my old age when I can no longer go outside………lol
HA! Yes I was taking Raw + jpeg for a while too and did resist the whole raw thing for ages, but I really do get more details out of the shadow and find I can ‘push’ my image a lot more than just with jpeg. Having said that, for convenience, I’m considering just going back to jpeg and see if I really miss having to PP everything…..
Fantastic… I need to use Photoshop more.
If you want to do something and you don’t know how, Google it or search for it on YouTube. The reason why I want to favor Photoshop over Lightroom, Photo-Paint, PaintShop Pro, Gimp, Picassa, and all the others is because it is the standard, so there are billions and billions and billions of tutorials.
Yes, it is the standard. I have Picasa but it doesn’t offer much.
I love the pic~!
Doesn’t San Diego have the Surfing Madonna mural?
Well, kind of. She actually resides up in Encinitas. She now has a permanent home in a private courtyard but open to the public.
Definitely not a throw away Russel, some become great works of art, a country of graffiti artwork I visited in 2009 was Chile South America, not one building escapes the brush and to add to the colour all the houses are painted in a myriad of colours of the rainbow, from pinks to yellows and every colour imaginable.
Cheers
Aussie Ian