I finally posted the photos I took from E's birthday trip to the New York Botenical Gardens. We went on his birthday, back in July.
I've been shooting RAW for awhile now. I definitely like what controls it offers me in PhotoShop. But it means that I have to process the images in PhotoShop. Which greatly increases the chance that the RAW files will just sit on my hard drive instead of make their way to Flickr.
I've also noticed that I've reached the ends of my PhotoShop skills. I feel confident in adjusting the exposure and highlights and lowlights in the RAW plug-in. But for some of the photos, they had a very slight pink on the tips of petals or subtle shading to the clouds. When I brighted up the exposure I lost those details. I know that it should be possible to bring those back - but how? How do I color balance again? How can I make one part of the photo lighter while the other darker? I don't have those chops (yet).
And, I know that I could learn. I could read one of E's books. I could take another class at UC Extension. But, the problem is, I have so many things that I want to do:
- Knit my sweater
- Knit the scarf for Gracie
- Finish Gracie's birth announcement
- Start Tony's birth annoucement
- Work on my own website
- Work on the P.E.O. site
- Do sf0 tasks
- Read more
- Process more of my photo backlog
The list just goes on and on. *sigh* I get overwhelmed by the options of my hobbies. There's so much I want to do. And not enough time to do it.
