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Got yesterday PS CS3 and experiment with it since then.

My first impression: it is pretty fast compared to the previous version. The handling is well and everything seems to be improved by a little.

But there is a problem I haven´t solved yet: Most of the times I work with layers and mask - esp. soft selection. Now if I select f.e. the highlights and use soft selection 80 .. PS automatically deselect the pixel along the edges, which CS2 hasn´t done. What can I do beside masking manual afterwards?

Wish you all a wonderful remaining sunday,

Kerstin

Well. Time for a weekly update. I was busy and still am. Got my first big assignment doing a person-outdoor shooting for a holiday catalogue. That´s really funny, first I have done almost none model shoot in my life, secondly I have to look for a fitting model myself (which of course shouldn´t look like a modell at all) – this is more difficult than I thought at the beginning. So now I am looking for a woman fit in the concept. As a location and and and .. not that I have to look for a visagist etc... I start to understand the problems of shooting people beyond street-sport photography. Any idea where I find "normal" people working as a model?

Well. I will solve this hopefully soon (*dreimalaufholzklopf*)

Besides this I am still trying to take nature pics, if the sun is showing itself – which was/is not often this sommer. But I shouldn´t complain. Haven´t seen so many rainbows in one week than the whole last year, even the first fully double rainbow, rising above a wheat-field enlighted by the evening sun. I felt so .. blessed. “Thousands” of pics are taken – now I only need to learn, how to work with Panaramo-Programs – that´s again catchier than I thought. Maybe someone can recommend an easy to handle stitching program. I tried Panoramafactory. Hugin doesn´t work (why - no idea!). The canon one was crap. ...

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So. I still don´t know how to handle this new account. Keep up uploading new and old staff (“in neuem Kleide”) – but I feel that there is not much time left being that active writing a comment after another one. I feel so tired – maybe because of the weather – maybe because there is still so much else to do. Got today the possibility with which there is hope monetarilly to survive on photography – just photography. Still can´t believe that. Maybe because I started taking pictures just two years ago. Maybe because I feel not good enough. Maybe because I expected another carrier years ago – being another one than I am now. Maybe for so many people are sceptically about – including me.

Well. Have to look forward. Hope that I am able to cope with the expectations set in me.

Musste heute spontan nach HH. Keine Ahnung ob hier jemand aus HH im Netzwerk ist - aber versuchen kann man es ja mal ...

ALSO: Vielleicht hat ja jemand Zeit. Würde mir gerne mal die Speicherstadt bzw. da Hafengelände bei Nacht bzw in der Dämmerung anschauen. Mail mit Tel.-Nr. genügt. Eine Stunde Zeit nach Veröffentlichung (ja da muss man schon spontan und schnell sei ;-) - sonst mach ich mich wohl allein auf die Socken ...

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Nachtrag: War nur kurz unterwegs, da es in Strömen anfing zu regnen und auch das Grollen am Himmel noch schlimmeres vermutete. Ergo: nichts wurde verpasst. An der See allerdings hätte man/frau wohl schöne Wolkenbilder machen können. Nun ja.

Well. Hadn´t thought so many old buddies coming here. WOW.

While I see – some built up new homes I still think this will be my second one (as also someone donated me my flickr account – for TWO years)

But I fell in love with this blog feature. Maybe writing more what I am doing/ thinking/ planing. Not sure because there is also those connection to my real name. (Maybe I should have choosen another one J

Hmm. There is another thought I have – many of you uploading old pics (I already saw in flickr) and I began doing the same, but I done´t like that so much. So I decided just to upload new staff or variations/improvments (yeah it is never too late to enhance old post-processings) of already shown pictures.

Wish a great day.

stine /aka lichtmaedel

PS: I have been a lazy photographer today: Tried to stay up at 3:50 a.m. (fields of fogs announced by the weatherforecast, and I couldn´t force myself to wake up – had a small look outside deciding it isn´t worth to stand up at all (beside it was worth) and fall asleep instantly again. ;-(

Well. I hadn´t thought the day will come joining a new picture-community. But here I am. Not sure about staying and moving from flickr in total. So I will see whether feeling homely here for the long run.