Adobe's new neural filters

This is my lovely wife way back in 1979. The original was shot on Tri-X film which is black and white. A lot of the fashion stuff I shot back then was B&W. I had a great relationship with the Ford agency and Eileen. She would send me models to test and I did a lot but when I met this lady, I wanted to stay with her forever so I quick shot a still life book and gave up on fashion. Anyway, this is about Photoshop and the new Neural Filters. One you can download in the Beta section is Colorize. So I tried it on Barb 1979. Basically it begins with the push of a button. That did take me 80% of the way. I liked the way Barb looked. The color was very good, very real. However, it made the background yellowish so I lifted Barb up onto her own layer and made the lower layer blue-ish. Then I did have to desaturate her teeth, make her lips red and her eyes blue. What you see here as far as Barb is concerned is the Photoshop's Neural Filters. It knew to make her hair blond and her skin pink-ish. She looks good in color... 41 year later.

 

Photographing art work

 

You have to admire print makers. I know that as photographers we are considered artists but print makers are a different breed. These huge prints were wood block prints. The top one was the original and the lower ones were washed with black and then silver or white. Tiny reproduction images really don't do them justice but my full res huge files do. They are color correct and accurate. My clients were nothing but fun. What a great way to make a living.

Nikon D850

  

So we lost power today. It doesn't happen too often but when it does, work stops. I am totally dependent upon power to run my computers and two external monitors as well as YouTube TV. So when the power went out I got my camera, put it on my favorite Tiltall tripod and set it to live view. I have my live view set to silent shooting, auto ISO and I trigger it by tapping the back LCD. The lens was a Tamron 300mm but the D850 is set to DX (as opposed to FX) so the 300mm becomes 450mm. That way I can sit in a chair on the deck and not bother the birds. The bird feeder is green not blue. What you see here is the focus help that the D850 gives you in live view. Anything that is blue is sharp. Even though the temperature is going up to the mid 80's, this morning was cool, breezy and I had a nice morning photographing birds.