https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/52194803449 Been kinda' saving this one for the Fourth of July. My mom used to live up near Roxboro, NC and there was a back way I could drive up there from Raleigh that avoided most of the major traffic. I passed this old graveyard along the way whenever I'd go up to visit her. It's just a simple place with rocks for grave markers and simple crosses made from PVC pipe. Nothing to mark it out as special, but then one day I noticed the three headstones and stopped to look at them more closely. -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

I like this; particularly the colors and the texture of the headstones. One might use the brush in LR to brighten the headstones a stop or so. Rick > On Jul 4, 2022, at 9:31 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms002@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/52194803449 > > Been kinda' saving this one for the Fourth of July. > > My mom used to live up near Roxboro, NC and there was a back way I could drive up there from Raleigh that avoided most of the major traffic. > > I passed this old graveyard along the way whenever I'd go up to visit her. > > It's just a simple place with rocks for grave markers and simple crosses made from PVC pipe. Nothing to mark it out as special, but then one day I noticed the three headstones and stopped to look at them more closely. > > > -- > Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Thank you. I don't use Lightroom, and I haven't done much Photoshop in the last couple years, so some of my skills are really rusty. I did use layer masks on curves & levels to make the headstones pop & NIK filters to push contrast as far as I could to try and make the headstones more readable. The original RAW file had almost no contrast between the stones & the inscriptions. I'll take another look & see if I can bring the stones up a bit more, and maybe post a substitute if I think I can do better. On 7/6/2022 9:02 AM, Rick Womer wrote: > I like this; particularly the colors and the texture of the headstones. > > One might use the brush in LR to brighten the headstones a stop or so. > > Rick > > >> On Jul 4, 2022, at 9:31 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms002@nc.rr.com> wrote: >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/52194803449 >> >> Been kinda' saving this one for the Fourth of July. >> >> My mom used to live up near Roxboro, NC and there was a back way I could drive up there from Raleigh that avoided most of the major traffic. >> >> I passed this old graveyard along the way whenever I'd go up to visit her. >> >> It's just a simple place with rocks for grave markers and simple crosses made from PVC pipe. Nothing to mark it out as special, but then one day I noticed the three headstones and stopped to look at them more closely. >> >> -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

Added an exposure adjustment layer to make the whole scene brighter and masked it with black, then painted in with white on the mask to reveal the brighter image on just the headstones. Had to burn in the inscriptions to keep them legible. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/52197461757 You can click back & forth between the two images to compare them. I still like the original better, but might go back to that exposure adjustment layer & tone it down a bit. Try to find a happy medium in between the two images. On 7/6/2022 12:51 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > Thank you. > > I don't use Lightroom, and I haven't done much Photoshop in the last > couple years, so some of my skills are really rusty. > > I did use layer masks on curves & levels to make the headstones pop  & > NIK filters to push contrast as far as I could to try and make the > headstones more readable. > > The original RAW file had almost no contrast between the stones & the > inscriptions. > > I'll take another look & see if I can bring the stones up a bit more, > and maybe post a substitute if I think I can do better. > > > On 7/6/2022 9:02 AM, Rick Womer wrote: >> I like this; particularly the colors and the texture of the headstones. >> >> One might use the brush in LR to brighten the headstones a stop or so. >> >> Rick >> >> >>> On Jul 4, 2022, at 9:31 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms002@nc.rr.com> wrote: >>> >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/52194803449 >>> >>> Been kinda' saving this one for the Fourth of July. >>> >>> My mom used to live up near Roxboro, NC and there was a back way I >>> could drive up there from Raleigh that avoided most of the major >>> traffic. >>> >>> I passed this old graveyard along the way whenever I'd go up to visit >>> her. >>> >>> It's just a simple place with rocks for grave markers and simple >>> crosses made from PVC pipe. Nothing to mark it out as special, but >>> then one day I noticed the three headstones and stopped to look at >>> them more closely. >>> >>> > > -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com