GKPE 8, Yet more NZ ramblings from some flightless Kiwis.

joeseph wrote in post #18962529
NZ Police helicopter this evening, making rather a dick of themselves:

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I find this rather interesting and it raises a couple of questions for me;

a) How did you track this unless you were driving/navigating?

b) I notice that the orbits close in on the Cereal Killa Cafe, could that have been the unsub/object of the search pattern?

The name of that cafe sort of leaves me cold as well! Serial killer indeed. Harumph

After I vacuumed and dusted our rooms, I put some flowers on the windowsill. Hope you folk lik 'em

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City living

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kiwichris wrote in post #18964108
City living

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As I said in G9 - interesting image, and appropriate for the city

How did you do it?

roseyposey wrote in post #18964112
As I said in G9 - interesting image, and appropriate for the city

How did you do it?

Luminar 4 which I prepaid for and worried about my money for months. It is generally good for not too difficult pics. This new version has a sky replace which I did, and a texture overlay. I used another photo as the over lay (the buildings are falling in) and then used some of their artistic finishes in cluding light fog and I brushed one mask somewhat unevenly during the process., The signature came from Affinity photo which is an Adobe challenger, very good stuff and way past me. I recently spent 80 on a book to learn it. Great book but Chris's brain, not so great. I enjoyed making this one, have settled on the name, city living.

kiwichris wrote in post #18964115
Luminar 4 which I prepaid for and worried about my money for months. It is generally good for not too difficult pics. This new version has a sky replace which I did, and a texture overlay. I used another photo as the over lay (the buildings are falling in) and then used some of their artistic finishes in cluding light fog and I brushed one mask somewhat unevenly during the process., The signature came from Affinity photo which is an Adobe challenger, very good stuff and way past me. I recently spent 80 on a book to learn it. Great book but Chris's brain, not so great. I enjoyed making this one, have settled on the name, city living.

Interesting. I have almost decided to get Luminar 4, and perhaps this has decided me.

I have tried editing th same images with Lightroom and Luminar and I invariably do better with LR, but they may be because I use it almost all the time ....

roseyposey wrote in post #18964118
Interesting. I have almost decided to get Luminar 4, and perhaps this has decided me.

I have tried editing th same images with Lightroom and Luminar and I invariably do better with LR, but they may be because I use it almost all the time ....

4 is quite different from 3, do trial it first to see if you like it before you buy.

kiwichris wrote in post #18964132
4 is quite different from 3, do trial it first to see if you like it before you buy.

From what I have read elsewhere L4 offers quite a bit, and i know someone from another forum is giving it serious consideration. Did wonderful sky drop in one click

roseyposey wrote in post #18964149
From what I have read elsewhere L4 offers quite a bit, and i know someone from another forum is giving it serious consideration. Did wonderful sky drop in one click

But it cant fix lens issues, doesn't have layers, and layoutr is entirely changed. No point in haveing something just because it changes skies., but yes it does. One click.

kiwichris wrote in post #18964151
But it cant fix lens issues, doesn't have layers, and layoutr is entirely changed. No point in haveing something just because it changes skies., but yes it does. One click.

The other thing is that I am not one click sky person - in fact don't see it as anything I would want to do.

I can see L4 does things, but still prefer Lightroom 6 standalone as everything stands at present.

an example

original pic exported from Luminar 4

kiwichris wrote in post #18964157
an example

original pic exported from Luminar 4

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and then one click sky, you can of course tune everything else to how you want it

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Someone on another forum showed that as well ... amazing.

Not sure if I would use it much, but who knows.

Clive today. Not a great image, but it appealed to my sense of humour. Three ducks, all standing on one leg, on stones in surrounding water, with the front duck apparently laughing

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These two ducks standing on a rock together appealed ...

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It always amazes which photos get invited to in explore. This one did! Weird really

The one above of the teals I mean.