Rye Playland, Out to Sea #2

Out to Sea - Version 4

I have this workflow exercise  I do where I will process images (both big boy and iphone) in various ways on various platforms to see just what is possible. This is done by taking iphone images to the desktop and vice-versa...having so many applications now available for the mac makes this a lot of fun...

Today's image was posted a few days ago but I also processed today's image completely on my  desktop Mac Pro using MacPhun Photo Studio, Dramatic Black and White with a bit of NIK Snapseed and Color EFX4 thrown in for good measure...

I guess the lesson here is do not be afriad to push sliders and workflow as far as possible in both directions....this is helpful in learning just what your limits are....no telling what is slight ahead or behind....

Below is the image progression that led to today's post...

Out to Sea V3

Out to Seas - V1

Cape May, Postcard from the Edge #2

Postcard from the Edge #2

Having some fun with my 'new wave' postcard look....I guess you could call this research and development....

Postcard from the Edge

'One Way' Postcard from the Edge

Seems like my visit to Cape May put me in a nostalgic New Jersey mood....Having grown up in Atlantic City I thought why not try to create a postcard reminiscent of the good old days - meaning 1950'ish - complete kitsch..... A combination of an old post card and a Polaroid transfer look.....made with modern technology....

Original image was made with my iPhone4s.......I also used photoshopcs5, NIK Color EFX4 and then sharpened with Pixel Genius 2....

Iceland, Red Church

This iPhone4 image has been in the archive since last July. This image was made in Hellnar, Snaefellsnes, Iceland.

Since the arrival of so many iPhone/iPad applications for Mac it has become increasing viable to process image like this one on the big screen. And there is no way to express my the gratitude I am certain my eyes are feeling by doing this. Thant plus the availability of CS5 content aware and sharpening applications such as Pixel Genius.

This image wsas processed using developer Macphun's FX Photo Studio PRO and Snapheal. Macphun makes many viable applications for both iPad/iPhone and Mac... Additionally this image was sharpened using Pixel Genius in Photoshop along with the lens correction in Lightroom3.

PS: I also added a bit of noise in Photoshop.

On another note The Last-Pixel Show Workshop website is up and running at http://www.thelastpixelshow.org/.

I am also taking on a few one on one students at my home studio - if interested drop me an email at harry@harrysandler.com. The one on one classes are iPhone/iPad as well as basic Lightroom and Photoshop skills.

below is the original iPhone image:

The Last-Pixel Show - Carmel Workshop

Brandie Price

Just finished the three day workshop in Carmel sponsored by the Renaissance Fine Art and Design Gallery. This workshop was two days of comprehensive iPhone/iPad/Applications work with the third day being dedicated to Ligthroom/Photoshop and making prints. Each student left with a print on fine art Epson or Museo paper printed on an Epson 3800.

Today's post are some the images created by the participants - in alphabetical order.

Look for an upcoming announcement for The Last-Pixel Show 2012 location workshops. Places being considered are California, New York and Washington State (The Palouse). You can 'like' The Last-Pixel Show page on Facebook where you will find information about the workshops as it becomes available.

Carol Boleman

Cindi Hobgood

Irene Oleksiuk

Sara Mccracken

Wiscasset, Maine

Orignal Image

This image above was one of the first ones I printed several years back. Decided to re-process today and see what it looked like taking out many of the artifacts and smoothing it out a bit. Part of the work was done in Touch and the rest was done using content aware in Photoshop....

The image below is the redoux from this morning.

redoux

And just for some fun I made a lab conversion to Black and White and used a color fill layer to change the tone...

Toned BW, LAB Conversion 

I find it very rewarding to go back occasionally with the new information we have learned and re-process older images - great fun to see what one can accomplish with a few new tools....just saying you know....

I am working to get my images back on the blog after the user error that occurred. It is a long and tedious job. I am giving some thought to a newsletter once a week - stay tuned to this space for more news.

Indianapolis Car Show

Old Buick.....

There are quite a few iPhone applications now available on our laptop and desktop computers....Lately I have been processing on my 'macbook' playing using a few of these applications.
Today's image was created by using the application pixel blender and then blending this image back into the original using layers and blending modes in CS5......I am traveling and really tired and will post a tutorial in the next few days showing how this is accomplished...

For now I had fun with an image photographed at the car show Sunday morning at the Indianapolis Raceway.......there must have been 500 cars or more....I posted a few big boy images from this show on the http://hsandler.blogspot.com this morning........stay tuned for more...

Finally getting home today after two weeks on the road....

I fell in love with the the Dodge truck below....Difficult to isolate a vehicle at a show but the owner was kind enough to pull the vehicle out a bit for this iPhone HDR image....this would be a great truck to photograph from.....

Dodge truck