Originally posted by: Aharami
like the first one the best. are these long exposures? taken with a tripod? quality is exceptional!! i used to have a a75...never took pics of this caliber? have these pics been modified in some way?
No, no long exposures. I think only
this one was taken with a tripod, but I don't remember. I only used a tripod once, for a panorama shot I want to stitch together later. I don't remember if that pic was part of it or not. I used Picasa, Photoshop CS, and Paint Shop Pro 7 for post-processing work. Picasa 2 has some pretty dang powerful color-correction tools!
For the pics on that page, the pictures were organized in Picasa 2, then I opened them in Photoshop CS, used the Auto Level filter, saved them, opened them in Paint Shop Pro 7, used the Unsharp Mask, resized 50%, and saved. I forgot to set the JPG quality so some of them are at 85% compression, but oh well. I finally figured out how to export individual edited pictures from Picasa 2 (select picture then press Shift+CTRL+S). I'm just going to use Picasa in the future for most of these basic snapshot-type photos. Picasa's color correct tools are just as good as Photoshop's for quick editing.