Your R System Images - June 2023

[PKM-UK]

Oh wow!!! Those look just fantastic. I especially like the red frame with the gray mat. I will look at Dave Kelly’s site I think he still has an active link to where you can purchase studio 2 from topaz

Hi Hali,

My pleasure!

Good luck with securing a copy of Studio 2. Here is a link to the Topaz: Legacy App Download Area. If you contact Topaz Support, who I've always found to be very helpful and accommodating, they may permit you to purchase a licence?

If it helps, tell them Phil Moore sent you...

(Studio 2 is one of my favourite creative programs - it can do so much more than just framing. I'm really very sorry Topaz decided to discontinue it and I hope that in the future they may reconsider their decision and produce a new version).

Phil

 

[PKM-UK]

The mountain laurel in our front yard. Canon R7, 18-150 mm RF-S lens, f/13 at 1/160, ISO 200

Hi Cemal,

That's a wonderful companion to send you off/ welcome you home. The colours, shapes and overall effect are all very pleasing to the eye...

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

From a drive out to Kandos on the weekend

Derelict railway station at Capertee

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In Kandos

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Looking towards the Grose valley

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Hi Tui,

A fascinating set of images dripping with interest for the viewer. Our favourite is the big landscape - a huge space which draws the viewer in.

Thank you for sharing...

 

[MikeZ]

The mountain laurel in our front yard. Canon R7, 18-150 mm RF-S lens, f/13 at 1/160, ISO 200

Beautiful photo, and I always thought that mountain laurel was just white. Live and learn.

 

[Bert-63]

Hi Hali,

Your efforts are being richly rewarded. A fascinating image which causes the viewer to pause and look closer. Very nice.

P&K

This is one of the nicest comments anyone has ever given me.. I'm very grateful. I had a feeling this gathering might be a little bit different than the others I frequent as well as one I admin (oh woe is me on that one - ugh - makes me want to go back to work.. hehe..

Thank you both so very much.

 

[Bert-63]

Hi Hali,

As promised, some sample framed versions. (I fell at the first hurdle as I couldn't work out how to download the image off here and had to resort to the old 'screen capture ploy', so please bear with any resultant issues with your image).

Should you like any of the frames, note that if you load them into Photoshop (or similar) as a layer you can can add another image as a new layer over the top, then re-size the new layer to fit the frame (hey presto - a framed image! ).

Phil

1. Mat colour matched to (top right) flower...

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2. Textured Mat...

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3. Frame colour matched to (mid left) flower...

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4. Textured wide Mat...

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I may be responding out of sequence, but could you describe this process in a bit more detail. We're still shrugging off the last of the winter and when our beauties start showing their petals I might like to give this a go (if the deer don't eat them first.. ha!)

 

[Bert-63]

A couple of early morning photos with my new R7, which we (ok, I, but my wife consented and actually encouraged me ) got to use with primarily with the RF100-400. I only got to shoot a few photos the morning after receiving it before I went to work and it has been pouring rain since. My first impressions was that the autofocus was slightly better than the R5 for bird eye tracking. I have been spoiled by my R5 in terms of noise; the R7 isn't bad but I often have to shoot at higher ISOs for bird photos and there is more noise relative to the R5. But either DxO or LRC's new denoise did a nice job with noise.
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These are two of my favorite birds that I don't get to see anymore because geography doesn't accommodate. Thanks for sharing these - great memories attached..

 

[PKM-UK]

I may be responding out of sequence, but could you describe this process in a bit more detail. We're still shrugging off the last of the winter and when our beauties start showing their petals I might like to give this a go (if the deer don't eat them first.. ha!)

Hi Bob,

No problem. In my original reply I was thinking about how someone who doesn't have a copy of Topaz Studio 2 - which I used to produce the sample digital frames - could yet benefit from 're-using' them for other images.

I've just tried my neat theory out - and, as with most 'very simple ideas', it isn't as easy as it sounded (the sample frames I produced were from a screen capture and the resultant image used was not a standard ratio)...

Anyway, here you go, I used Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. There will probably be multiple ways of doing this, but my Photoshop skills are limited and here's how I did it (note I used images with identical crop ratios) -

1. in Lr C, take the sample framed image and 'Edit In' Photoshop. This loads it into Photoshop...

2. Return to Lr C, select the new image you want to frame, right click and 'Edit as Smart Object in Photoshop'...

3. This loads it into Photoshop as a new image with a Smart Object Layer. Drag the Smart Object Layer from this image onto the sample image and drop it (this creates it as a Layer). Next Transform (i.e. re-size) the Smart Object Layer.

4. Save the image and the sample frame has now been re-used for another image...

5. And finally, a sample blank digital frame (ratio 2x3)...

 

[ctitanic]

Graduation

 

[ACEkin]

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Very pensive!

 

[ctitanic]

Very pensive!

Probably thinking about the future.

 

[ACEkin]

A clematis flower from our backyard.

 

[Hali]

Hi Hali,

My pleasure!

Good luck with securing a copy of Studio 2. Here is a link to the Topaz: Legacy App Download Area. If you contact Topaz Support, who I've always found to be very helpful and accommodating, they may permit you to purchase a licence?

If it helps, tell them Phil Moore sent you...

(Studio 2 is one of my favourite creative programs - it can do so much more than just framing. I'm really very sorry Topaz decided to discontinue it and I hope that in the future they may reconsider their decision and produce a new version)

I did download it then looked in my password manager. I had this weird entry for "topaz 2" on a whim I tried it and lo and behold I *do* have a Studio 2 license! Ahhhh thethings I will be playing with. I'm not sure I actually ever used it. I did use the original studio with all the plugins and I think I upgraded it but then picked up the Nik software and never installed it. I have had a bad case GAS in my lifetime.

Thanks again for the link!

 

[Hali]

A clematis flower from our backyard.
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That's lovely! Our Clematis haven't started blooming yet.

 

[PKM-UK]

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Hi Frank,

A fascinating candid capture - graduation done (the ‘easy bit‘ is over… ) now the rest of my life begins…

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

I did download it then looked in my password manager. I had this weird entry for "topaz 2" on a whim I tried it and lo and behold I *do* have a Studio 2 license! Ahhhh thethings I will be playing with. I'm not sure I actually ever used it. I did use the original studio with all the plugins and I think I upgraded it but then picked up the Nik software and never installed it. I have had a bad case GAS in my lifetime.

Thanks again for the link!

Hi Hali,

Fantastic! The gist of the settings I used for the frame you liked are shown below (I didn't save the exact values, but you can adjust them to taste).

Once you have something you like save it as a 'Look' - you can then apply the exact same settings again (and, if required, adapt them from there).

Have fun…

Phil

 

[ACEkin]

That's lovely! Our Clematis haven't started blooming yet.

This is an early bloomer, it has been showing off for about a month now.

 

[PKM-UK]

Just finished thinning out/ processing the (5,400) raw files from our recent visits to Chester Zoo - some images from which may appear in a forum near here in July...

In the meantime, some images taken in our local woods I just found lurking in the RF-S folder...

(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite and Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop).

Phil

1. Go on, you know you want to... (Blue Tit).

2. Hello matey... (Muntjac Deer).

3. Good morning... (European Robin).

 

[Photofarmer]

 

[Photofarmer]

another with r6ii please pass on your expert knowledge guys would have say 4 second exposure translated into sharper image? #0 seconds is for multiple stikes but wasnt happening on this night should have changed. But when ya stuff around around for a few minutes ya might miss a good one

 

[PKM-UK]

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Hi Peter,

Crikey - great stuff, but we're kind of hoping you weren't using a long metal mono-pod...

(Must have been quite an experience - well done on surviving and thank you for sharing!).

P&K

 

[Bryan Conner]

Large yellow loosestrife

 

[ACEkin]

Large yellow loosestrife

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Just like the ones in our backyard! They are so refreshing.

 

[PKM-UK]

Large yellow loosestrife

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Hi Bryan,

Beautiful flowers, beautifully captured.

A delightful image with a warm, glowing quality which would brighten any day - thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[Bryan Conner]

Just like the ones in our backyard! They are so refreshing.

Thanks Cemal

 

[Bryan Conner]

Hi Bryan,

Beautiful flowers, beautifully captured.

A delightful image with a warm, glowing quality which would brighten any day - thank you for sharing...

P&K

Thanks for the kind words P&K. This 45mm Tamron f1.8 lens is definitely a favorite of mine, I love the bokeh it is capable of.

 

[Photofarmer]

i should add the probability of storm was in the 90% range which storm chasing at times means jack shitz.

Anyway watching radarscope i had a hour up my sleeve.

I thought right these are widespread lets go somewere and make it photogenic, i was hoping for reflection of the river way more than happened.

Sadly they just didnt come quite close enough maybe another 5 miles needed.

Next day i chased again with two other guys did 500 kms was a bust not a single photo that happens now and then this time about 100kms away,.

Guess being self employed partially retired farmer i can just pick and go unless were super busy.

Even have a old wreck of a subaru outback diesel runs on smell of oily rag matress in back sleeping bag some bare cooking stuff , 20 litres fuel, some water, some beer so i can camp out if needed.

 

[PKM-UK]

I just got round to editing a couple of sunrise shots from April - as the thread blurb says, better late than never...

Taken at Hartshill Country Park, Warwickshire, England.

(Shot raw and edited using: Adobe Lightroom. Frame and logo produced using: Topaz Studio 2 and Photoshop).

Phil

1. It's the Sun!

2. Lurking in the bushes...

 

[Bert-63]

Excellent! Unfortunately as well as fortunately I live in the top left corner of the United States and when the forest fires get going in BC it makes for amazing sunsets down here in the Puget Sound. You have to wear a gas mask to take them (kidding) but they can be really gorgeous.

 

[PKM-UK]

Excellent! Unfortunately as well as fortunately I live in the top left corner of the United States and when the forest fires get going in BC it makes for amazing sunsets down here in the Puget Sound. You have to wear a gas mask to take them (kidding) but they can be really gorgeous.

Hi Bob,

Cheers - appreciated!

Sounds like beauty and the beast - nature at its most dynamic. Fortunately for us, central England majors on rain…

Whilst we get the odd ‘big sky’ or golden sunrise, most daybreaks here are pretty mediocre to be honest - but I find screwing the camera settings down hard and slightly overdoing it in post can sometimes produce fairly pleasing results.

P&K