Pleurotus Confirmation / Photo Advice

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by kiff

you don't have to spend any money to get very good image manipulation software GIMP is free and once you get use to it, it can do just as good a job as paintshop pro, elements.

they have the GIMP software at college but I don't know how to do any photo correction or whatever. I know about sharpness and contrast and brightness but I usually go to the maximum of these values. I always get wary of changing the hue / saturation because theres so many things I could possibly do with it: more blue, more red, less blue, more green. etc. Its like I don't know what the good photo will look like after I edited it.

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hi,

Friend of mine always use empty tetrapack milk carton, which they cut the sides and turn it inside out. They are silvery inside, but not crunched. They have very good fotos nevertheless, and these cartons have the advantage that they are not as wavy and much heavier. Great advantage when you want to takes pictures of hygrocybes on a meadow when it's windy ....

best regards,
Andreas

That is a good idea ... where I go it is almost always windy, even when it is a supposedly still day, and foil wouldn't stand a chance. Tetrapak weighed down with a few stones might just do the job.

Melanie

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

they have the GIMP software at college but I don't know how to do any photo correction or whatever. I know about sharpness and contrast and brightness but I usually go to the maximum of these values. I always get wary of changing the hue / saturation because theres so many things I could possibly do with it: more blue, more red, less blue, more green. etc. Its like I don't know what the good photo will look like after I edited it.

Hi KT

Work on a copy of the original photo, then if you mess up the one you are working on it doesn't matter, you've still got the original. You can then experiment to your heart's content.

I don't know the GIMP software, but if it has 'curves' that I find (on Photoshop and other photo image manipulation software) is a very good place to start manipulating. First on RGB, which usually is all I need. Hue is much more difficult, and can be altered, but I tend to think if the light has been a bit strange then the photo is not really going to be particularly good whatever you do .... sometimes it is better to keep the strange cast, because at least it is obvious that is what it is, and the brain can make its own compensations ...

Melanie.