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Gone fishing. Inle Lake, Myanmar

Lowepro makes gloves which have slits in the thumb and forefinger in where you can slide those fingertips out when required. Very useful

Thanks, that's very kind of you to say that. 🙂 Besides the strong colors in the photo, I was always intrigued by the expression on her face

No points were missed. The RAW files may very well contain more information than a 16 bit ProPhoto TIFF file, however the difference may not be significant. I put this info out for anyone having issues with shadows and highlights. For me LR and ACR (same thing almost) weren't as good as this method. Just my opinion

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I didn't realize that he was using a jpeg for an example. One way around that is to use PS as an external editor in LR. Right click on the thumbnail (edit in) and chose PS. If you haven't got an external editor set up, go to Choose Lightroom > Preferences (Mac) or Edit > Preferences (Windows) and then click on the External Editing tab. You can then do all your edits in PS, including Nik in the 16 bit tiff file. When finished, click save (not save as). That will take you back to LR with 2 files, original and edited. Not all shadows need "opening up" but some do. Anyway, I like it😐

There has been a lot of talk regarding highlight and shadows lately. Is there anybody here using that function in PS? Go to Image>Adjustments>Shadows & Highlights>Advanced. I find it a lot more useful than LR or curves/levels. Of course there is a YouTube tutorial from my fast talking teacher😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avr99WgsOKY

Carnival Queen. Carifest parade in Calgary.

Ecuador is for lovers...including these two apparently

I had a 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner for 29 years😲! I still dream about that car.

Yup, you're right. 1965

Looks to me like a Ford Fairlane 500 (1963)

I usually don't do a lot of motion blur or panning, but I think this one works (IMHO)

I'm going to need some help chowing this one down. Does anyone have any spare sour cream? Glendon Alberta

Now that I have terminated my G account, I'm starting to upload some of those photos to Alamy. Let's see how they do here.

Could be? More likely will be. I'll be one of the first in line