People think that living in San Diego must be great for photography, or at least for photographers and their equipment since it’s rare that we get wet.
Having lots of sunshine, though, presents other problems. Excessive glare comes to mind.
However, even though we have lots of “days” of sunshine, “days” is defined differently than you might think. “Days” for the San Diego PR people simply means that the sun comes out sometime during the day.
During May and June we have May Gray and June Gloom. That’s when the marine cloud layer often doesn’t dissipate until well into the afternoon. While there are lots of great places and things to photograph, the ugly, dreary, oogy, blah! May Gray will give you pictures like this one of the University of San Diego:
I always get a kick out of the photography snobs who say they get the best picture they can in the camera and would never think of using something like Photoshop to do anything other than minor contrast work.
Ha! A dull gray sky is still a dull gray sky. Phooey on dull gray skies.
I took that picture to Photoshop CS6, found me a nice blue sky with some clouds and came up with this:
I’m getting much better replacing skies, but if I didn’t tell you what I did, would you know? If I gave you the 109 MB TIFF file, you could still see some areas that are a little shoddy, and I’m working on my skills in those areas. For a 57KB Internet picture, though, no one would ever know. Well, maybe San Diego natives would know if I told them I took the picture on a May morning…. 🙂
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Great job with the photo touches. Much better than I can do! I will try to get at least 3 pics in for June 🙂
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Yeah! Go for four. Heck, Todd, just make it 30, one for each day! lol
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My friends joke with me; they take 1900 at sporting events and only see 3 to 4 pop from my website per month. I might reach 100 when I receive social security :).
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I’m trying to do more now that I seem to have a consistent workflow in Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6 for what I like to do to pictures when I’m cataloging them. Today I’m cataloging pictures from March 24.
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I remember June Gloom so well from when I lived in So Cal. Nice photos tho!
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Come back for a June Gloom visit! lol
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I know exactly what you mean! I attend the University of San Diego! Beautiful campus and great for shooting pictures too (minus the May Gray and June Gloom)
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I worked yesterday on a bunch of USD pictures to replace the gray skies.
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Oooo I watched that video you posted too! NICE!!! You did an amazing job 😀
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I have many pictures in my “keep for the future” file folder. Now that I’ve learned how to replace the sky, and to do it well, the future is here!
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ADVENTURE TIME! I’m excited to see more of them now 😀
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