View Full Version : Clint's Back Yard Flying Field Pics
WillJames
09-04-2006, 09:48 AM
Check out Clints Field...
THe heli you see flying is the MXR Razor Glow!! More info and a sneak peek video of the new MXR Razor Glow kicking ass with Bert and Clintstone flying coming soon. :) You will see it here on HF FIRST!!
Clintstone
09-04-2006, 11:25 AM
Nice Will looks like my HISSY.
woodturner
09-04-2006, 06:03 PM
I remember that field.. Nice pics Will, very clear, looks like you have the AP stuff down. Great hangin' with you in Mooresville, see you at Blacksheep!!
Clint, thanks for helping me get my heli set up & the hints on auto practice. I hit G3 hard this morning..
Happy flyin'
Frank
WillJames
09-04-2006, 07:00 PM
Thanks Frank. I actually have a long way to go, but I am working on it and having fun!!
Nice seeing you at the Mooresville Event!!
Bert Kammerer
09-04-2006, 07:55 PM
Nice pics Will. Never thought they would come out as nice :)
Clintstone
09-04-2006, 08:07 PM
Stick with it frank, you will have it in no time.
Just need a bit of photoshoppin'. This ended up looking a bit off/oversharpened since I was workign with an already mangled (by uploading) image...and it looked better on my PC before getting crunched again by HF on the way up...
WillJames
09-05-2006, 08:18 AM
If you click the pic you attached, it whows in full size you uploaded it in. No crunching other than the thumbnail.
If you don't mind sharing your secrets, what exactly did you do to the image in PhotoShop? Thanks in advance!!
Somehow it definitely looks worse when I load it from here than it did in photoshop...but I'll admit the size comes out the same. Odd.
This was just a quick hack job to see how it would turn out....
What I did was look at the image overall and realize that the exposure was great for the sky but lousy for the ground except for one or two brightly lit spots on the ground. So I isolated the ground area (selected the sky, then did a select inverse, then a 15px feather to avoid a hard edge). Looking at the histograph then showed the vast majority of the ground image at the dark end with just a couple of highlights. I slid the 'levels' sliders to adjust the apparent exposure of the ground a bit.
Since a few areas were now truly blown out (the strip of land behind (at image-left) his neighbor's house, the bottom half of the road, etc, I clicked on the 'history' brush, then selected the snapshot and airbrushed the old well-exposed spots back into the picture.
I finished it up with a touch of unsharp mask and did a 'save for web' (definitely lost a bit of quality here, but it was good enough)
I've done a fair bit of photography. Some of my work can be seen at the link below, but it's a rather out of date sample and I wouldn't even say they're my best work... but be advised, some of the images in my profile and on the site in general are "not work safe". I don't remember the exact link but if you go to http://www.onemodelplace.com and put '8873' in for 'member search' (NOT 'model' search) it should come back to my listing - TK Photography.
Teej