Diana Magor, MPSA, APSA
About the Image(s)
I have been doing a lot of macro work during lockdown. I have seen pictures of forks in competitions, usually balancing eggs for some reason. So I tried balancing all sorts of other items and I like them quite a lot but I also liked the one with no added items. This was lit with an LED light above the camera and to one side. The forks were on an old glazing plate from my darkroom days when mounting glossy prints. I needed a reflective surface and decided this would work well. When I opened in RAW, I pushed the dehaze button far to the right to maximum, increased the clarity to 10 and the saturation to 80 to get a lovely purple look. You can see there are aberrations in the forks and in the background. Then I opened in Nik and played with the colour balance and lightened the centre area, then converted to mono, and darkened the areas to the right which were lighter than the left side. It sounds complicated but only took about half an hour. I do enjoy ‘playing’ when I have plenty of time.
So what do you think? Will it get anywhere in competitions? Or do I go for the balancing act?
This round’s discussion is now closed!
12 comments posted
  Posted: 08/06/2020 09:33:10
I agree with Asbjorn about submitting the images. Personally, I feel in many ways like you did with my submission this month. I like the color version better than the black and white. I also find the smaller version of the black and white is more appealing to me than the larger version. There are some background problems that you can see in the larger version.   Posted: 08/07/2020 09:34:17
I like very much that I can see the imperfections in the highly magnified details.   Posted: 08/09/2020 23:26:08
  Posted: 08/23/2020 16:16:51
  Posted: 08/28/2020 12:17:24