The great thing about photography tours is that they don’t end when you return home. There is a lot of work to be done on the pictures you’ve taken, and then after you've selected your favorites and enhanced them with contrast, color, and perhaps applied a few plugin filters, you can then work on compositing various images that work well together. For example, this 1956 Chevy Belair was parked in front of a nondescript stone wall, and although the photo was not bad, it wasn't great. I like great. So I used the pen tool in Photoshop to precisely cut out the car -- including the windows -- and then combined it with a typical building that's falling apart in Havana.
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Nov 11, 2015, 5:59:27 AM
Jim - Dan, Old dogs can really be taught new tricks! I'm older than you are, and I learned Photoshop. But then I have always loved special effects, so I put my heart, soul, and mind into it. If you love it, you just spend the time to learn it and embrace it.
Nov 11, 2015, 12:21:56 AM
Daniel Reynaud - At my own timid level, I do sympathize with the post production work. I am, as we speak working on my very 1st book, trying not to make a fool of myself !!. Not a tour, just a road trip in West Texas. Using Publisher for the 1st time... I wish I were a teenager, not a 60 year old software challenged person !!! Beautiful pic. as usual, and I do admire your mastery with Photoshop.