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Villa Montalvo

Shots from Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA on September 29th, 2001.

The Villa is named after a 16th century Spanish writer Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo, who coined the term "California". (From VillaMontalvo.org.)

Rooftop #1
Rooftop #1		 Door
Door		 A Flower Girl
A Flower Girl		 The Garden from the Villa
The Garden from the Villa
Door #2
Door #2		 Sneaky Shot...
Sneaky Shot...		 Entrance to the Garden
Entrance to the Garden		 Gazebo
Gazebo
A View of the Villa
A View of the Villa		 Head Close-up
Head Close-up		 Rooftop #2
Rooftop #2		 A Shack
A Shack
Hong Cho 01-Oct-2001 17:42
Thank you, Stan. I do use the "Curve" in PS. This is a normal work-flow I follow. 1) Take pictures in RAW mode (I think of it as "negatives"). 2) Edit out the hot pixels (my G1 started to get one recently). 3) Crop when necessary (due to the measly 3X zoom, for some shots, I know beforehand I have to crop later). 4) For some shots, to reduce the effect of CA, use the "Hue/Saturation" in PS to lower the magenta saturation. 5) Use the "Curve" in PS to get the color I like. 6) I might try making them B/W and see if I like them better (most of the time, though, there were some color elements in the frames that I liked at the time I took the pictures). 7) Resize and sharpen the images for uploads. Hong.
Stan Abraham 01-Oct-2001 13:01
I am very impressed with the technique used to capture these perfect images. Did you use any post camera editing?
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