A few things I just put up on the site

[Leo G]

These are some jobs I did a while ago but couldn't find pictures of. So today I went hunting on my work computer and found a few that I was looking for. Still many more missing. I know where they are, but can't get at them because the drive is in a computer that has been stored away. One day.

Concept Vanity
http://fototime.com/15C15214DF9C632/orig.jpg

Entertainment Wall
http://fototime.com/92BEFB6A94122EA/orig.jpg

Kitchen
http://fototime.com/2603AF0C0A646AC/orig.jpg

http://fototime.com/A3328BFFB22C026/orig.jpg

[Leo G]

Bar Area
http://fototime.com/9AF13B4C04B330C/orig.jpg

All of these are in the same home. This is one of the homes I can call a showcase house.

[Silvertree]

Nice stuff Leo, and all I posted was the crown I miscut:o

[ChrWright]

Cool projects Leo. Beautiful work as usual.

What's the little button looking thing on the end of that island?

(and isn't it REALLY annoying to only be able to post 4 pics at a time? :rolleyes3:)

[Leo G]

Button thing? Where?

(So frik'n annoying)

[ChrWright]

1st post, 4th pic, lower right

[ChrWright]

It's the lighting isn't it... that's the turn on the pedestal base I'll bet.

[Leo G]

I think I see what you are talking about. You see how the left side has a shaped toe kick. The end has the same furniture toekick but it is only as deep as the panel thickness (13/16"). What you are seeing is the light reflecting off of the curve of the toekick. Really tough getting pictures of black.

This isn't painted, it is stained. If you take a quick look at it (in person) you would think it is painted. But if you look close you can see the grain showing through. Soft Maple is the wood.

[Silvertree]

Looks like a knot that let loose:laugh3:

OK, I'm sorry;)

[ChrWright]

It's the secret compartment button isn't it? You'd tell us about it but then you'd have to...

:laugh3:

[Leo G]

I was going to photoshop it up for you but I can't do it because it is black on black. All the detail is lost.

[Leo G]

Secret compartment, no. But here's one:

http://fototime.com/BFEF9EDFCBD2094/standard.jpg

http://fototime.com/6DAFAAE0005C9BA/standard.jpg

[Silvertree]

Leo I gotta look you up when I next visit my folks. They live in Manchester.

I think I told you I'm from Waterbury.

[Leo G]

Good luck with that. Ask Jason. He's tried 3 times so far :laugh3:. When he's here I'm not. Just happenstance. Annoyingly Funny.

Warn me when you are gonna be up here. I'll try to make myself available.

Manchester is about 20-25 minutes from my shop. I am a few minutes from the airport. If that is how you are coming in I can pick you up and get you to your parents house by way of my shop.

[KitchenSync]

Yep. Beautiful work there, sir. :2thumbsup:

[cbscreative]

I was going to photoshop it up for you but I can't do it because it is black on black. All the detail is lost.

Actually, that could be Photoshopped very easily. I say easily, but only because I can qualify as a Photoshop guru. If you need it done to be able to publish these images, don't hesitate to ask.

Nice work too, and thanks for sharing.

[tomstruble]

nice Leo very nice

[Bender]

Makes me want to put away my welding stuff and get back into woodworking.

[Bodger]

Button thing? Where?





Leo

What IS that thing? ...very nice work by the way. Aren't you glad these flat screens TVs are nice and light?

Remember the old 200 pound Sony TVs that needed a cabinet 30" deep? I hated those.

http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt10/dingoff/leosphoto.jpg

[Leo G]

Actually, that could be Photoshopped very easily. I say easily, but only because I can qualify as a Photoshop guru. If you need it done to be able to publish these images, don't hesitate to ask.

Nice work too, and thanks for sharing.

They have been photoshopped a bit for lighting. The black had a red hue to it and the cherry cabinets were over-saturated. The ceiling had a blue purple tint to it too. This was a mixed light shoot. Incandescent, natural sunlight and a flash introduced all kinds of weird shades into the mix. I had to do a selections and work on each pc independently.

I tried to edit the area in question but it is black on black and in the original shot that area is a low contrast area. I couldn't get nothing out of it. I use PSP not photoshop. So I have a few limitations, not many, but a few. If you want to take a shot at it, and see if you can bring out the toekick on that side panel - go for it. I'd like to see the results. And try to remember what you did to fix it so I can see if I can reproduce it.

This is the original file I was working from. And it isn't even the original. I had an "a" tag and an "NI" tag on it which means I alterd it and sent it through Neat Image. I don't have the original file, or if I do I don't know where it is.
http://fototime.com/8D2B113D6D4E805/orig.jpg

[Leo G]

Leo

What IS that thing? ...very nice work by the way. Aren't you glad these flat screens TVs are nice and light?

Remember the old 200 pound Sony TVs that needed a cabinet 30" deep? I hated those.

http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt10/dingoff/leosphoto.jpg

I explained it in post #8:smash:

[ChrWright]

Leo,

I was curious what camera you use. I'm getting ready to upgrade to a digital SLR. Do you normally shoot to raw, or?

[Leo G]

I don't know if these were shot with my Olympus C750 or my Nikon D70s. Just went and looked, it was the Nikon.

I don't shoot raw, I don't have a converter. And the Nikon converter is just to much in my opinion because I figure it should have been offered with the camera bundle. 90% of my shooting is in Adobe spectrum instead of the RBGa spectrum. I find it more accurately reproduces colors and has less of a problem with purples and reds. I have a few lenses, 18-70mm, 50mm, 70-300mm VRII. I am looking for a wide zoom, maybe the 12-24mm or the 10-20mm. I have the SB 600 flash. Mostly use it for my business but on occassion I go play photographer.

http://fototime.com/9F9B1741021F88C/orig.jpg

http://fototime.com/DA386E4C900685D/orig.jpg

http://fototime.com/BA05DAB363D0E5C/orig.jpg

[Bodger]

I explained it in post #8:smash:



Okay.:. :)

[Silvertree]

Is that a picture from Rocky Point?

[Leo G]

They were in the area of Watch Hill in RI, the boat pic was taken near the Watch Hill lighthouse.

[Silvertree]

That boat looks like fun.

[Leo G]

Looks like a money pit to me...:laugh3:

But a fun money pit

[cbscreative]

Leo, if I use the images in this post, they are 72 ppi where your camera probably shoots them somewhere between 150 and 350. It's been a long time since I used PSP, but I was always impressed with what it offered for the price. Because I don't use it, I wouldn't know what tools it does and does not have.

Does it have a "stamp" or "clone" tool? If it does, selecting that with a feathered brush will correct the blemish on your image. The clone tool will "clone" a selected area in and replace it over your blemish. If you select a source location with the same shading you want to cover, it will duplicate that over your blemish. The feathered brush keeps the edges "soft" so you don't get hard lines making your edit show.

[Leo G]

Problem is, is it is not a blemish. It is suppose to be there. But because of the black panel and the black toekick a lot of the detail is lost. I probably have less of a deal with it because I know what is suppose to be there and you guys probably think the panel is suppose to go straight down to the ground.

I use those tools all the time. I am very fluent with PSP and its capabilities and use the layering and masks all the time. I can make a pretty rotten photo pretty good.


Like this photo. I tried to use the off camera flash behind the post and bounce it off the ceiling. As you can see it failed miserably:
http://fototime.com/DEF79786CE88B62/orig.jpg

Played around with the photo editor for a while and got this out of it. Like night and day.
http://fototime.com/08A116910E023F7/orig.jpg

[cbscreative]

It looks like your photo editing skills are well above average, so my advice seemed pretty simplistic.

I think you would really like Photoshop. You mentioned wide angle views above; newer versions of PS have a really cool photomerge feature which combines 2 or more images into one and does a pretty impressive job most of the time. I am amazed just thinking about all the programming hours Adobe must have invested to make this work. It actually evaluates all the pixel data and chooses the best places to merge. It's not perfect, nor does it seem like it ever could be, but it's amazingly close.

Check out the tutorials below:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/photoshop/articles/phs8ppphotomerge.html
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/html/vid0013.html

Since you take a lot of indoor shots, you will probably find the video below quite interesting, especially in reference to your post above. There is an annoying intro to sit through the first several seconds, but it's worth it.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/total-training-for-photoshop-cs3/merge-it-together-pt6/