Sometimes a nice scene does not make a nice photo when taken at the wrong angle. I found these giant joss-sticks lining along a busy road and stopped my car to snap a few pics. These joss-sticks are offereings from the people for the hungry ghosts whom are expected to roam the earth tomorrow onwards. 
So, as you know, it is not an object for me to play around with and neither it is alright for me to hang around.
Hahaha, you certainly don’t want to mess about in a place where lorry loads of hungry souls are gathering to have their annual feast. (I am a Christian, btw) The worshippers are actually setting up the stage, altar and other stuffs so I cannot spend too much time there.
So, upon getting home, I found that all my photo sucks. This is because of the large mango tree at the back which added too much colour to the already colourful joss-sticks. Therefore, I played with the Curves on Photoshop.
Three simple step
- Fire up the Photoshop, get pic, click Image
- Choose Adjustment
- Pick Curves and start pulling those curvy line and see the photo changes colour
As you know, I am not pro so my photoshopping skills are limited to hues & saturation, curves and other basic stuffs.
Another blue photo.
And that concludes my most amateurish Photoshopping lesson for today. Hahahaha, actually after acquiring Photoshop for so many years, I have never really play around with those buttons except for resizing and removing some spots on my face. I hope to discover more functions and share them with the noobs like me!
A reminder to all photobugs, July 25th onwards will see Chinese operas sprouting around the neighbourhood. This is a very good time to take photos of this very interesting subject. You will have a chance to take a pic with the god of hades with his black face and long tongue plus bulging eyes. They are usually represented in huge paper effigy, the height of a house. Don’t forget to take photos of those joss-stick smoking and who knows, you may capture a ghost or two giving you the peace sign! Good luck! LOL. But seriously, I will share in another post on how to take ghost photos or rather photo with apparition of a ghostly figure.
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louise
August 1, 2006 at 2:55 am
hi, came across this from masakmasak blog. I am not a big photographer but been trying to do some good composions when i am travelling. I think you have some good shots going. Wish I have the patience and learn technical photography. Have some pics on my blog.check it out.