SmugMug > all-time keyword > sgm > July 21, 2008; Day 80.

Boys Night Out. Tonight was movie night, but I didn’t get to relax and enjoy it because next Sunday, we are hosting our biggest fundraising event of the year. I enjoy spending time on this because we keep very little of the money for ourselves. Mostly, we donate our proceeds to other non-profits throughout this area. So naturally I ran around tonight tying up the last-minute details making sure that everything goes smoothly.

This is my first usage of Photoshop’s Photomerge feature. I continue to be impressed by what PS can do. I thought it would have trouble correcting the ceiling, which slants one way in one image and the other way in the other. Perhaps PS can even remove that ugly blob of green flare, but if so, I don’t know how to invoke it!

I like the big color shift in the next room, which is being lit almost entirely by floodlamps.

After Photomerge:
PS: Exposure: +0.3
PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
SmugMug > all-time keyword > sgm > June 30, 2008; Day 59.

Tonight I joined my friends at the Portsmouth Bowl-o-Rama (whose sign is so photogenic you can’t mess it up) for a few strings of candlepin.

This is my friend Ozzie contemplating the skinny little pins. They sure look far away when viewed through a fisheye lens.

I was raised in Indiana so I never experienced candlepin bowling until after college. I must say, as a guy who has his own 16-pound ball and who actually scored above 200 once in tenpin, I don’t much care for the little balls. I also don’t like the rule whereby if the ball goes in the gutter and yet manages to knock down pins, they don’t count. Nevertheless, I was thrilled to score a 62 tonight. (I only played one string…the rest of the evening was spent swapping lenses and filling up a 2GB card!)

Raw: Exposure: +1
Raw: Fill light: +30
Raw: Saturation: +10
PS: Color Balance: +10 Yellow to Blue
PS: Saturation: +10
PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
SmugMug > all-time keyword > sgm > June 23, 2008; Day 52.

Another Monday, another evening with friends in Portsmouth. It was rainy with thunderstorms expected...perfect for several rounds of Uno. Uno combines the best of poker and Survivor…you win mostly by luck but also by cunning—getting your neighbors to thrash someone else with their crummy cards while accepting that you have no choice but to occasionally thrash them.  I came in last place tonight; I blame luck.

This is not my hand; my cards are in the pile at left. I'm somewhat wedged into place to take this shot and didn't notice how off my horizon was. I didn’t feel the need to fix this; the slanting horizon seems to fit this crowd nicely.

The diffuse lighting is mostly coming from my external flash, attached on the hot shoe and pointed at the ceiling, angled slightly behind me. I needed a color balance adjustment to remove some of the green coming from the florescent bulbs.

Raw: Exposure: +1.0
Raw: Saturation: +10
PS: Color Balance: -10 Magenta to Green; +5 Yellow to Blue
PS: Saturation: +10
PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
SmugMug > all-time keyword > sgm > May 12, 2008; Day 10. I'm not always a big fan of foreground bokeh but I think it works here. Thanks to my friend Raymond for lending a hand.
SmugMug > all-time keyword > sgm > Mari Garcia and Officer Rick Luttrell (of the Kansas City Kansas police department) celebrate a volleyball point during a "Cops and Kids" event at St Ben's in Kansas City, Kansas Tuesday August 9th. Photo by Susan McSpadden
SmugMug > all-time keyword > sgm > Anxious to receive his necklace, Joel Favela, 2, of St. Joseph reached for it during a "Cops and Kids" event at St Ben's in Kansas City, Kansas Tuesday August 9th. Photo by Susan McSpadden
SmugMug > all-time keyword > sgm > Anna Lilia, 11, held Alexis Sanchez Hernandez, 3, to reach the basketball goal during a "Cops and Kids" event at St Ben's in Kansas City, Kansas Tuesday August 9th. Photo by Susan McSpadden
SmugMug > all-time keyword > sgm > Araceli Maldonado, 4, danced to one of her favorite songs while her father Gerardo Maldonado watched during a "Cops and Kids" event at St Ben's in Kansas City, Kansas Tuesday August 9th. Photo by Susan McSpadden
SmugMug > all-time keyword > sgm > Rubyt Sandoval, 10, of All Saints parish, looks for the right combination of beads for her jewelry during a "Cops and Kids" event at St Ben's in Kansas City, Kansas Tuesday August 9th. Photo by Susan McSpadden
July 21, 2008; Day 80.

Boys Night Out. Tonight was movie night, but I didn’t get to relax and enjoy it because next Sunday, we are hosting our biggest fundraising event of the year. I enjoy spending time on this because we keep very little of the money for ourselves. Mostly, we donate our proceeds to other non-profits throughout this area. So naturally I ran around tonight tying up the last-minute details making sure that everything goes smoothly.

This is my first usage of Photoshop’s Photomerge feature. I continue to be impressed by what PS can do. I thought it would have trouble correcting the ceiling, which slants one way in one image and the other way in the other. Perhaps PS can even remove that ugly blob of green flare, but if so, I don’t know how to invoke it!

I like the big color shift in the next room, which is being lit almost entirely by floodlamps.

After Photomerge:
PS: Exposure: 0.3
PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
 > July 21, 2008; Day 80.

Boys Night Out. Tonight was movie night, but I didn’t get to relax and enjoy it because next Sunday, we are hosting our biggest fundraising event of the year. I enjoy spending time on this because we keep very little of the money for ourselves. Mostly, we donate our proceeds to other non-profits throughout this area. So naturally I ran around tonight tying up the last-minute details making sure that everything goes smoothly.

This is my first usage of Photoshop’s Photomerge feature. I continue to be impressed by what PS can do. I thought it would have trouble correcting the ceiling, which slants one way in one image and the other way in the other. Perhaps PS can even remove that ugly blob of green flare, but if so, I don’t know how to invoke it!

I like the big color shift in the next room, which is being lit almost entirely by floodlamps.

After Photomerge:
PS: Exposure: +0.3
PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
July 21, 2008; Day 80.

Boys Night Out. Tonight was movie night, but I didn’t get to relax and enjoy it because next Sunday, we are hosting our biggest fundraising event of the year. I enjoy spending time on this because we keep very little of the money for ourselves. Mostly, we donate our proceeds to other non-profits throughout this area. So naturally I ran around tonight tying up the last-minute details making sure that everything goes smoothly.

This is my first usage of Photoshop’s Photomerge feature. I continue to be impressed by what PS can do. I thought it would have trouble correcting the ceiling, which slants one way in one image and the other way in the other. Perhaps PS can even remove that ugly blob of green flare, but if so, I don’t know how to invoke it!

I like the big color shift in the next room, which is being lit almost entirely by floodlamps.

After Photomerge:
PS: Exposure: 0.3
PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Photo by: Jeremy · see photo in gallery

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