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This morning I walked out among the students arriving at the campus of the middle-plus-high school which adjoins the street I live on. I was shooting RAW files with my Canon G2 for the first time. Down the sidewalk I followed a little redheaded girl, who was rapidly pulling away from me. Her hair was bright as a new penny in the morning sun. Somehow, the G2 perceived it as nearer to auburn in color.
Never Late for Class
I had the Rainier "blurred people" thread on my mind, but I didn't have the shutter speed set slow enough. When I saw the image on my screen, I thought, ah well. At least I can try to make the colors nearer to those I remember--the sunbeams were so long and so bright on the child's back, and then she walked into the shade of a building. She was really moving on.
I'm trying to learn how to Upload RAW files and then manipulate them in LightZone.
So that's what I did with the TIFF that Canon's RAW converter made of the file. And I had a good time trying to see what LightZone might let me do. I couldn't manage the regions tool. But I did tweak the color balance a little. And then I discovered Gaussian blur. Wow! This lets you completely blur the image out of recognition. Here's the one that suited me best--although, to tell the truth, the sharper original was more to my liking. It has the most appeal to me. Anyway, below is my blurred little redhead.
This morning I walked out among the students arriving at the campus of the middle-plus-high school which adjoins the street I live on. I was shooting RAW files with my Canon G2 for the first time. Down the sidewalk I followed a little redheaded girl, who was rapidly pulling away from me. Her hair was bright as a new penny in the morning sun. Somehow, the G2 perceived it as nearer to auburn in color.
Never Late for Class

I had the Rainier "blurred people" thread on my mind, but I didn't have the shutter speed set slow enough. When I saw the image on my screen, I thought, ah well. At least I can try to make the colors nearer to those I remember--the sunbeams were so long and so bright on the child's back, and then she walked into the shade of a building. She was really moving on.
I'm trying to learn how to Upload RAW files and then manipulate them in LightZone.
So that's what I did with the TIFF that Canon's RAW converter made of the file. And I had a good time trying to see what LightZone might let me do. I couldn't manage the regions tool. But I did tweak the color balance a little. And then I discovered Gaussian blur. Wow! This lets you completely blur the image out of recognition. Here's the one that suited me best--although, to tell the truth, the sharper original was more to my liking. It has the most appeal to me. Anyway, below is my blurred little redhead.