September 21st, 2010 → 11:59 am @ Bianca Gubalke
Are you planning to spend a unique and wildly romantic Honeymoon in Cape Town, South Africa?
If so, you will have the time of your life… and you definitely want to include a Honeymoon Weekend or more at Monkey Valley Resort, just 35 km South of Cape Town and right on the beach bordering on an almost untouched Mountain Nature Reserve – have a look a what awaits you on the brand-new Monkey Valley Resort Website.
The happy picture above was taken by internationally renowned photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner David Turnley, New York, at Monkey Valley Resort, where he was giving a Photographic Workshop.
If you want your Wedding itself to take place in South Africa – the breath-taking natural surroundings of Monkey Valley Resort may just be what you are looking for… Also have a look at the “Crowned Eagle” – ideal for about 15 people and making you feel right on top of the world… with the most beautiful sunsets of Cape Town!
Give your life as a new couple the finest start – in a naturally beautiful, secluded and tranquil place that many have called “paradise”. . . see what others have said and written here: Wedding at Monkey Valley Resort.
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September 20th, 2010 → 9:11 am @ Bianca Gubalke
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When it comes to choosing amongst the Best Restaurants in Cape Town, South Africa, Thorfynn’s Restaurant at Monkey Valley Resort – under relatively new management of Darren Byrne – comes to mind.
Darren – who you see on the photo taken by David Turnley above – has a huge passion for the hospitality industry and vast experience from having brought “The Brassbell” in Kalk Bay to fame and making it a favourite dining out destination as well as serving the best fish ‘n chips almost on the wave crests of the Atlantic Ocean.
I loved to go there… but now with Thorfynn’s Restaurant just down and up the road and with a mouth-watering and well-priced menu I just eat out at home… or almost :)
When choosing amongst the Best Restaurants in Cape Town, fine and fresh food well prepared is certainly a prime objective, however, it’s also about the environment, the views, the ambiente and the warmth of the people.
Thorfynn’s Restaurant at Monkey Valley Resort has always been an insider tip for those who love getting out of the hectic city buzz and enjoying that unique “Out of Africa” feeling that just seems to be inherent to Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort in general… and to this fine Noordhoek Cape Town Restaurant in particular.
Darren Byrne and his Team go the extra mile to make you feel literally on top of the world!
Monkey Valley Resort Online – prepare to be astonished!
Please set your sails for an exciting journey by simply clicking on the topics of interest to you in the top navigation bar of the brand-new Monkey Valley Resort website on Semiomantics Evolution – a surfing experience with a REAL difference!
To be continued. . .
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September 20th, 2010 → 9:11 am @ Bianca Gubalke
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When it comes to choosing amongst the Best Restaurants in Cape Town, South Africa, Thorfynn’s Restaurant at Monkey Valley Resort – under relatively new management of Darren Byrne – comes to mind.
Darren – who you see on the photo taken by David Turnley above – has a huge passion for the hospitality industry and vast experience from having brought “The Brassbell” in Kalk Bay to fame and making it a favourite dining out destination as well as serving the best fish ‘n chips almost on the wave crests of the Atlantic Ocean.
I loved to go there… but now with Thorfynn’s Restaurant just down and up the road and with a mouth-watering and well-priced menu I just eat out at home… or almost :)
When choosing amongst the Best Restaurants in Cape Town, fine and fresh food well prepared is certainly a prime objective, however, it’s also about the environment, the views, the ambiente and the warmth of the people.
Thorfynn’s Restaurant at Monkey Valley Resort has always been an insider tip for those who love getting out of the hectic city buzz and enjoying that unique “Out of Africa” feeling that just seems to be inherent to Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort in general… and to this fine Noordhoek Cape Town Restaurant in particular.
Darren Byrne and his Team go the extra mile to make you feel literally on top of the world!
Monkey Valley Resort Online – prepare to be astonished!
Please set your sails for an exciting journey by simply clicking on the topics of interest to you in the top navigation bar of the brand-new Monkey Valley Resort website on Semiomantics Evolution – a surfing experience with a REAL difference!
To be continued. . .
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September 20th, 2010 → 8:07 am @ Bianca Gubalke
Visit Monkey Valley Resort Online! See and feel exactly what awaits you!
Visit Monkey Valley Resort Online before booking a trip to this paradise just 35 kilometres South of Cape Town, South Africa!
Never travelling in the virtual space and making an informed decision about your Holiday destination and even booking from there has been easier! Monkey Valley Resort just went online with their brand-new website – be the first to see and experience it…
We’ll be back with more. . .
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September 20th, 2010 → 8:07 am @ Bianca Gubalke
Visit Monkey Valley Resort Online! See and feel exactly what awaits you!
Visit Monkey Valley Resort Online before booking a trip to this paradise just 35 kilometres South of Cape Town, South Africa!
Never travelling in the virtual space and making an informed decision about your Holiday destination and even booking from there has been easier! Monkey Valley Resort just went online with their brand-new website – be the first to see and experience it…
We’ll be back with more. . .
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September 15th, 2010 → 6:29 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Vegetable Garden Design News just keeps overtaking themselves! What an exciting racer this brand-new website is on the Internet; hard to keep up with its ambition to reach Google Top 10 in numbers – see below.
To celebrate the occasion… and as autumn is closing in on the Northern hemisphere – here’s a boletus I found in my garden in April 2010 – our South African autumn! It was delicious… and picked in the wild.
As it’s raining constantly right now there is no way I shoot a picture of any vegetable… in case it sticks its head out on a cold, lousy day anyway! Veggies love warmth and the sun and so do I – but it will be back soon… and then there’s stretching of roots and little heads and leaves popping up everywhere smiling at the world and just too big a temptation to be picked and end up in a salad bowl!
Astonishing results for “Vegetable Garden Design News” on Google right after setting up this brand-new site and sending out a small post: in total, our Online Publishing Network holds 7 of 10 positions on Google Top 10!
What’s even more exciting… I just checked HERE ON GOOGLE and see that, meanwhile, this brand-new website – vegetablegardendesigns.com – is on position one ahead of 412,000 fiercely defended search results!
The question is: what comes after the Top?
I guess it will be the next keyword . . . stay tuned!
September 15th, 2010 → 6:03 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
What started off a day ago as a lone experiment has turned into a schoolcase on “How to grab Vegetable Garden Design” – meaning how to reach Google Top 10 if that was my target, my ambition.
Whether your plan is to target “Vegetable Garden Design” or any other keyword doesn’t matter; what matters is that you know exactly where your target audience is and what it types into Google to find what you have to offer. If say 1000 people search “Vegetable Garden Design” on Google every day and most people look at page 1, which contains 10 websites on the left (wait until Semiomantics sniffs this one out!) and some Google Ads on the right, you know where your website has to be – come hell or high water!
Once you’ve decided that you don’t want to pay non-stop for Google Ads but to get to the top on the left side, then your next step is to invest in a smart domain name.
If you look at the screenshot below that shows the evolution of my little articles within just a few hours, then see that my website – which has absolutely nothing to do with vegetables etc – has one big minus if compared with the others: they all have their keywords somehow within their domain name! They are smart! It does help… so if hitting the top in the veggie gardening biz was my main ambition, guess what I would do first thing?
No magic here; just common sense.
Let’s look at results of “Small Vegetable Garden Design” on Google. A stunning position 8 on Google Top 10 of 614,000 Search returns!
What is truly astonishing is the fact that my Author Blog – on Semiomantics XO – did it all alone, meaning without the support of our major Publishing Network as that one was down.
As my initial experiment has now been taken up to demonstrate yet another school case of the power of Semiomantics, keep an eye on developments and learn from what you can deduct.
Stay tuned… we just show by doing… there’s no hype, no exaggeration – just a step-by-step process with a sophisticated script and smart Editing and Online Publishing.
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September 15th, 2010 → 4:50 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/semiomantics/vegetable-garden-design-on-google-top-10/.Vegetable Garden Design on Google Top 10 in the UK!
WOW!
That’s the good news I got from my friend the HerbGardenKit seller… together with the screenshot… and he added: “Who said I don’t believe in the script Semiomantics XO to reach the Google page 1?”
Ha ha said the clown! I know… afterwards it’s easy… when the suspense is over and the proof is in the pudding. But also recognize our honesty and courage to demonstrate the merits and efficiency of our Semiomantics product without a safety net – that’s just how good it is and how sure we can be!
To celebrate the occasion… but with no real vegetable photographs at hand yet, here I show some enormous Boletus I had collected in our garden on 29 April 2010 – with a transparent watermark I had been working on at the time… not that I normally use it. But that’s as far as I can contribute visually to the “Vegetable Garden” news today!
And here’s the screenshot to show you that Vegetable Garden Design made it to Google Top 10 :
After having shown the path through getting your domain name, hosting and a Semiomantics XO script for High Performance, you will be well on your way to the top as Semiomantics Scripts can only be set up by qualified Semiomantics experts – that’s part of the deal, of the price. You get your specific, customized Blog only once it’s properly indexed on Google and showing under the targeted keywords.
From there, you either buy the SEO engine to relax as concerns your regular posting – if that’s not so much your thing – or you learn from the instructional walk-through that’s included in the price as well to teach you how to edit your posts, tag them properly and publish them in a Google-efficient way.
You can’t ask for more – and if you have a long-term vision it’s guaranteed the better investment, the better choice.
Goal Reached – YES! You Can!
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September 15th, 2010 → 8:44 am @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/semiomantics/vegetable-garden-design-hostin/.After yesterday’s article on “How to Grab Vegetable Garden Design” in terms of a domain name – the first important step after your decision to go for this topic and obviously based on what you have to offer or sell – the next step is to get smart, reliable and affordable Hosting.
To illustrate our schoolcase, we grabbed a domain name as close as we could get to “Vegetable Garden Design” and got affordable Hosting at U$35 right HERE .
Once we had the Hosting for the new Vegetable Garden Design schoolcase, a script was needed – and here there’s no choice! It’s a Semiomantics XO… and the site was quickly prepared as you see on the screenshot above.
Meanwhile, however, I checked where my post on “Vegetable Garden Design” had gone on Google so far? below is the screenshot I took yesterday… and it shows rank 15!!!
Of course, with such stiff competition it’s a matter of consistently digging one’s way through to the top – and, if that’s where we want and need to be – to then work consistenly on keeping that position. That’s why it is tough on a good niche keyword to conquer those top positions that have been well established over years.
However, with Semiomantics it’s just a matter of time – short time as you see given the fact that this experiment – and meanwhile schoolcase – is just 3 days old!
I apologize to those readers who expect more expert info on Garden Design and Layout here – but firstly there are excellent specialists on this theme right on top of Google… and secondly that’s not our main topic! Our passion and business is about bringing our customers to Google Top 10 with an elegant and attractive Web Design.
However, if Veggie Gardening or anything to do with Designing Gardens in any form and shape is your passion, YOU need to get to the top of Google to be seen – meaning page 1. This is where this article and schoolcase may be of prime interest to you.
I invite everyone who’s skeptical or simply interested to watch what “Vegetable Garden Design” on Semiomantics XO does over the next hours and days! Seeing is believing… and have Fun!
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September 14th, 2010 → 12:58 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/semiomantics/vegetable-garden-design-image/.
I couldn’t resist this Vegetable Garden Design Image with fine geometrics and colors according to taste! It’s an ‘artistic interpretation’ of the professional food image I had inserted earlier – not my own for once but sent to me a while ago as a good example. Fun!
If you see the almost instant results for Small Vegetable Garden Design on Google below, you may understand my Vegetables go nutzzz in the garden… or let’s say they became creative and did their own layout and design. If you look closely, the little dwarfs are still around :)
It’s hard to keep up with a Semiomantics XO… just minutes after posting my last article, I found that “Small Vegetable Garden Design” had gone from rank 19 to Google Top 10:
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September 14th, 2010 → 12:26 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/semiomantics/how-to-grab-vegetable-garden-design/.
What started off a day ago as a lone experiment has turned into a schoolcase on “How to grab Vegetable Garden Design” – meaning how to reach Google Top 10 if that was my target, my ambition.
Whether your plan is to target “Vegetable Garden Design” or any other keyword doesn’t matter; what matters is that you know exactly where your target audience is and what it types into Google to find what you have to offer. If say 1000 people search “Vegetable Garden Design” on Google every day and most people look at page 1, which contains 10 websites on the left (wait until Semiomantics sniffs this one out!) and some Google Ads on the right, you know where your website has to be – come hell or high water!
Once you’ve decided that you don’t want to pay non-stop for Google Ads but to get to the top on the left side, then your next step is to invest in a smart domain name.
If you look at the screenshot below that shows the evolution of my little articles within just a few hours, then see that my website – which has absolutely nothing to do with vegetables etc – has one big minus if compared with the others: they all have their keywords somehow within their domain name! They are smart! It does help… so if hitting the top in the veggie biz was my main ambition, guess what I would do first thing?
No magic here; just common sense.
Let’s look at results: yesterday, shortly after the post was out, my keywords “Small Vegetable Garden Design” ranked on the top of page 4 on Google.
Today, we have reached page 2 and steadily climbing!
What is truly astonishing is the fact that my Author Blog – on Semiomantics XO – did it all alone, meaning without the support of our major Publishing Network as that one was down.
As my initial experiment has now been taken up to demonstrate yet enother school case of the power of Semiomantics, keep an eye on developments and learn from what you can deduct.
Stay tuned… we just show by doing… there’s no hype, no exaggeration – just a step-by-step process with a sophisticated script and smart Editing and Online Publishing.
Get your Semiomantics Script in MY SHOP HERE.
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September 13th, 2010 → 3:32 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/small-vegetable-garden-design-2/.
With “Vegetable Garden Design” my spiffy friend with the Herb Garden Kit has given me a spiffy keyword to conquer – he well knew why! It’s a niche but a fiercely defended one by all gardening and vegetable freaks… and when setting up our blogs, we always focus on a number of keywords and then post in a specific context.
Also, having say “Small Vegetable Garden Design” in any form within your domain name is a huge advantage. So while we’ll get there, it may take a little longer…
To start with, we got on position 2 on “Optimize your Vegetable Gardening”…
Now we go for more… depending on the time we can put into it just for the fun of it and to show the extraordinary performance of Semiomantics XO Scripts together with good Editing and Online Publishing… although here we are a bit on maintenance at the moment and not in optimal shape.
So let’s see what my earlier article on “Small Vegetable Garden Design” shows on Google?
So far, we’ve made it to the TOP of page 4 of 4,270,000 search returns! WOW! Within just a few hours… however, we’ll improve that – just you wait!
To be continued… this is the Semiomantics Samba! Not quite a ‘vegetable’ and not to be performed in your vegetable garden :)
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September 13th, 2010 → 7:07 am @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/small-vegetable-garden-design/.
Although we here in Noordhoek, South Africa, are used to rather large gardens – or let’s call it lots of space – and lots of sunshine and warmth especially during the hot summer months, it doesn’t mean that a Vegetable Garden has to be large. To the contrary! There are many reasons for it, however, from what I see from friends and neighbours, most if not all go for a Small Vegetable Garden Design that is easily manageable and can be kept neat, clean and under control as there are many hungry little mouths around here!
What is important when planning a small Vegetable Garden design is that you avoid shady areas and choose a sunny, protected spot. You may then consider whether you want to plant in open soil or create raised beds – which obviously is a protection against some intruders – I saw beds even a few feet above the ground which was a joy for the back! – but also the soil seems to warm up faster and the drainage is better – to avoid stagnating water that can rot roots.
More to come…
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September 13th, 2010 → 6:22 am @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/optimize-your-vegetable-gardening/.
While in the previous post we discussed “Vegetable Garden Design” as that is my friend’s main topic, what we find very important for any form of gardening and from an ecological aspect down here in Noordhoek, South Africa, is to optimize your Vegetable Garden with Earthworms.
Optimize your Vegetable Gardening not only from a Vegetable Garden Design point of view, but also by recycling your veggie and other kitchen scraps via the earthworm funnel. It takes little time and there are no smells at all… in case you wondered. You just smell Earth… a healthy one. The worms add valuable micro organisms to the soil and improve water holding capacity – very important in dry climates and hot summers. Kids just love the above picture and what it stands for; it’s right next to their playground.
In fact, if you have children, give them the daily job of feeding the worms. It’s simple and easy to do and it teaches them responsibility. I assure you, they will thoroughly enjoy this besides learning a big lesson about the power and wisdom of Nature and how each one of us can help sustain a healthy planet.
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September 12th, 2010 → 9:05 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/vegetable-garden-design/.
Why not Vegetable Garden Design?
Having spent hours with both Garden Design and Vegetables this weekend, though not necessarily in that combination, here is a classic case of serendipity: an old online friend pops up on Voip and we start talking… catching up on the past… and guess what he’s involved with?
Herbs, Vegetables, Gardening… and Vegetable Garden Design!
Now we get talking!
Now he shows me his Herb Garden Kits website that is his full online focus right now.
Of course, with such a colorful topic I’d expect colorful vegetable pictures and tons of photos and imagination-triggers that talk more than the famous 1000 words… like the ‘pseudo-vegetable’ protea above that takes itself for one of those gorgeous cauliflowers that never know whether they are decorative or eatable… and as my vegetable garden got eaten by porcupines and antilope that’s as close to the topic of “vegetable garden design” that I can get imagewise today!
Of course, we discuss his website and he wants to know more about the efficiency of Semiomantics XO Scripts and Semiomantics Web Design.
While screenshots of proof abound, seeing is believing and I decided to take up one of his targets and shoot at it: Vegetable Garden Design!
Let’s see where we get…
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September 11th, 2010 → 8:13 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Noordhoek in Spring… here’s to a beautiful South African spring right from my doorstep… and if you want a special treat, go up along the West Coast of the Western Cape, South Africa (towards Namibia, including Namaqualand) and see, smell and feel endless flower carpets of dainty Namaqua Daisies exploding in white, yellow, orange, pink and blue… It’s that time of the year, just after the rains… and a magnificent spectacle that attracts visitors from near and far. And a feast for bees….
As I’m heavily involved in Noordhoek Landscape Photography right now, I could catch this beautiful vista illustrating “Noordhoek in Spring”. It’s so typical for the area and of course for Silvermine Nature Reserve…
Peace… and Tranquility… and the simple Joy of Being!
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September 11th, 2010 → 7:54 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/noordhoek-landscape-photography/.Noordhoek Landscape Photography… here’s to a beautiful South African spring right from my doorstep… and to reassure my loyal readers who got worried as not seeing an article for 2 days in a row!
The fact is, I’m not even at the Beach… I’m heavily involved in Noordhoek Landscape Photography right now – and all it entails: firstly, taking the digital photos and then editing them for an online production.
Meanwhile I’ve got a good grip on the Developing section in Lightroom 3.0 and – after a number of discussions and testing following my article on “Post-Editing Digital Photos” and some serious uploading errors of Stock Photography on our brand-new Photo Media Stock website – erros that were just as mysterious as they were frustrating – I’ve taken the decision to export my pictures from Lightroom into folders on my harddrive and not directly into Photoshop where things just seem to get messed up, don’t ask me why… I’m in a learning process here.
Then, if and when I need to reformat a picture or I want to continue working on it, I simply import it into Photoshop as I always did – all problems solved, end of story, Peace!
This decision meant re-editing tons of photos today that somehow didn’t satisfy me earlier; however, I’ve developed my own presets and I have the feeling things are moving in the right direction.
So all this is keeping me on my toes and in a huge learning loop… typically I managed to get myself into a project that’s quite demanding … but I carry that Vision in my mind that needs to be realized… and it will!
Stay tuned. . .
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September 8th, 2010 → 6:45 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/digital-photography/telling-your-story/.“Telling your Story” – that’s probably intrinsically imprinted in any creative photographer’s mind and eye when he takes a picture – and even more so when he edits it and the countless possibilities pull at his imaginative muscles inviting to dance with light and shadow, colors and shapes, depth and lightness and endless other options.
Fascinating! Just as I was carried away by what I ‘saw’ on this particular picture… and I remember the shadows creeping towards me as it was getting dark and I was here all alone…
However, when producing for Stock Photography we have to change the hat and “Telling your Story” becomes secondary from our perspective.
Our first objective is to have a technically correct high quality image – so that whoever sees that picture can recognize something within it that will allow him to be telling his story – not our’s.
I would think that the better one gets, the more a picture we shoot for Stock Footage has both: high quality and high story potential. Potential!
When producing for commercial purposes – like for Photo Media Stock -, it is important to know which hat one wears.
With the combination of Semiomantics Web Design and classy Digital Photography, Website Publishing becomes more exciting each and every day!
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September 8th, 2010 → 5:12 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/post-editing-digital-photos/.When Post Editing Digital Photos in Lightroom, I start by developing a clean image first, for which we created a preset. While the color intensity still shocks me a little… although I have found how to level that down, I am always amazed at the amount of detail that it brings forward if compared with the initial picture. That definitely is a great plus!
However, I have identified a problem that I haven’t solved yet; here it is… and it applies – in different degrees – to all pictures I export from Lightroom into Photoshop CS4 (in my case): a remarkable color difference!
How can this be? What am I missing here?
Above you see the screenshot of a picture – in Sepia – in Lightroom.
As I need to resize the picture for a specific purpose, I export the Digital Photo directly from Lightroom for some Post Editing in Photoshop.
What a surprise: see the difference in color! The golden touch has completely faded, some grey has sneaked in that was non-existent on my Sepoa picture above, and even the sharpness has taken a blow.
What has happened in this process… on this passage?
Being conscious of the Influence of Backgrounds – black, white, grey or any other -, I was wondering whether my eyes are being fooled? Or my mind? Or both?
In Lightroom the background is of a dark grey, in Photoshop it is light grey – could it make such a difference in the perception of a color?
Not believing this could be the case, I still had to investigate this issue; after all, I had spent precious time in Lightroom, I was happy with the result… and I did not want to start all over!
So here is the exported picture in Photoshop on the same fond – a darkish grey – as in Lightroom! And have we found an answer to the problem? Unfortunately not yet… but I am determined to solve this mystery. . .
If anyone out there knows the answer, please comment! It’s only in persisting on finding solutions to problems that we evolve… I would love to have this one answered!
Images are so important in Website Publishing – and that’s what we are focusing on right here and right now; Printed matter comes at a later stage as I am concerned. For the time being, I focus on getting the quality of digital photography right – be it Landscape Photography or Architecture Photography as in this example in a magnificent private garden in Noordhoek, South Africa – in order to supply good Stock Photography for our new website: Photo Media Stock.
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September 7th, 2010 → 6:24 pm @ Bianca Gubalke
Today was mostly spent with Digital Photography in one way or another – and it was crowned with a magnificent sunset reflecting off the tip of Chapman’s Peak! I was lucky to catch it right when I came back from another photography session in a friend’s garden … and it only lasted a few moments! In digital Photography one has to always be ready!
Here is my original untouched picture that I just ran quickly through my basic preset in Lightroom and I added a bit of vignette – that’s all:
We will see the real sunsets again once the sun emerges again from behind Chapman’s Peak and sinks into the Atlantic Ocean right here in Noordhoek, South Africa – as of November… for about 3-4 months. I have posted a number of sunset pictures – especially of Noordhoek Beach and from my garden… and there will be more especially in view of the fact that many people adore them and may look for our stock photography production on Photo Media Stock.
Here is an almost black & white version of the above original – the sky becomes almost liquid… :
Good quality pictures that talk are crucial for today’s Website Publishing.
Therefore, at tonight’s call we will look further into our new website: Photo Media Stock! Exciting times ahead for our members who have a passion for Digital Photography and the willingness to learn and improve.
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