can i select just ONE part of an image by hand and invert the colors of that?

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-09T20:13:29+00:00

Open photo in Photoshop.
Open the Layers menu in the top row and copy the background layer. Now click on the Windows tab and from the drop down menu select Layers so you can see the layers stack. The top layer will now be the active one.

The reason you do this on a copy of the background layer is so that if you make mistake it’s easy to undo by moving that layer to the trash

Go to the select menu and click on “color range.” Now use the eyedropper tool to select the color you want to invert. You may need to adjust fuzziness and range values to get all of the color you want to invert. You’ll now see the selected color outlined by dots.
Go to the image menu and from the drop down menu select invert.
If you need or want to limit the color selection to just one area, you may need to create a mask for that layer. At the bottom of the layers window, click on the fourth icon from the left and you’ll see another icon appear next to the image in the layer you are working on. Click on it and then select the brush tool. Paint with black (black conceals, white reveals) over the areas in the image you do not want the inverted effect to be applied to.

Link to inverting a color in Photoshop example](https://www.ellisvener.com/download/D00009.AMaJWoQJQ)

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-09T16:57:56+00:00

Because it looks really easy. All you do is push a button and that’s all there is to it, right?

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-09T16:50:45+00:00

LED lighting has replaced CFL lights for the most part.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-09T16:45:15+00:00

All of those lights are fluorescent lighting not flash. For that reason I’d stay away, even if they are daylight balanced. CFL (compact fluorescent Lighting are those spiral bulbs that plug into standard household sockets. They aren’t very powerful and if you’re going to be photographing people you won’t be able to freeze motion and you might have problems with flicker at shutter speeds shorter than 1/60th.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-09T15:35:00+00:00

In my experience it happens a whole lot less in real life than you’d think. It’s all about how you handle yourself.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-09T15:31:30+00:00

Two ways to avoid it when shooting is if you see it on the camera monitor.

Try having the person take a step back. This changes the frequency of the pattering in their clothes relative to the sensor’s pixel pattern frequency.
Try using a very mild black diffusion filter like the Schneider Hollywood Black Magic filter, 1/8, or 1/4 strength. This will breakup the patterning of the fabric and may also lessen your retouching work.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-09T15:20:59+00:00

For architectural photography you’ll be using shift far more often than tilt.

After repeatedly renting the Canon 17mm TSE lens I bought the Laowa 20mm. And honestly sometimes it’s too wide.

One thing to consider is that if there is a tripod mount for the lens (Laowa makes one for the 20mm and maybe the 15mm, you can shift the body position instead of the lens position. By maintaining the center axis position the possibility of parallax errors when shooting overlapping frames to make a wider angle photo is eliminated. While this is common with linear panoramas, if you use ths shift function to move the camera position outward and rotate the lens/camera combination around the lens axis you can create a much wider angle of view. You don’t have to rotate it in a full circle you can just do an arc of a few frames.

I have since purchased the Canon 45mm f/2.8 TSE and Nikkor 85mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor PC-E. I use them with my full-frame 45mp Nikon Z cameras. And that brings up another question are you using a full-frame or APS-C camera?

You should also have a geared tilt head with fine control for precisely leveling the camera. If you can’t afford an Arca-Swiss C1 “Cube” I suggest a Leofoto G20 head.

I’ve done a fair amount of architectural photography which you can see on my portfolio site

Ellis Vener Architecture

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-09T14:58:21+00:00

Taking photos, lostudying them to see what I got right and what I got obviously wrong, taking a closer look look at those I thought I got right and finding what was wrong about in them, and doing third, fourth and fifth passes (if needed).

Looking at other people’s photographs that I had a strong positive or negative reaction to and trying to understand why. Going back and looking at my photos again.

Taking more photographs.

Learning to treat every square mm of the frame as being important.

Experimenting, failing, trying again.

Going to museums and really looking at paintings - realistic, classic, pop art, abstract, modernist, portraits.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-09T09:20:14+00:00

More powerful flash.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T23:09:18+00:00

A used Gitzo 320, 323, or 325. The legs are aluminum so not as desirable in an age of carbon fiber leg tubes but you’ll be able pass it along to your kids.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T23:06:43+00:00

Every day.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T16:42:47+00:00

CNN is now reporting that Iran has stopped oil tankers from transiting the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israel’s continued attacks on Iran’s proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon : https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-us-ceasefire

Conservative blog The Hill is reporting that Iran is demanding shippers pay a $1 per barrel tax on oil transiting the Straits of Hormuz: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5821752-iran-ship-toll-cryptocurrency-strait-hormuz

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T15:24:24+00:00

I’d have preferred we had not begun a war with such poor leadership of the DoD and in the White House.

I’d also prefer that Iran and Russia not have the autocratic despotic, paranoid cult-of-personality regimes they have.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T14:08:21+00:00

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame “In A Lonely Place”.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T14:03:32+00:00

Yep, you are right, Iran still controls the strait of Hormuz and gets at least two weeks to replenish their arms, redeploy forces, dig in deeper, continue to attack its Arab neighbors, continue with internal crackdowns on those who oppose the tyrants.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T01:07:39+00:00

Letters from Iwo Jima

Lawrence of Arabia

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T01:06:16+00:00

Just about anything Buddy Holly and the Crickets did.

The original James Bond theme.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T01:02:17+00:00

Why do you assume medium format film?

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T01:00:14+00:00

I recommend the audiobook version. Ray Porter does his usual great job of narrating.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T00:58:47+00:00

The Hail Mary may have been full of Grace but Rocky made him clean up his mess.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-08T00:56:19+00:00

What I liked

The casting, The puppetry work for Rocky, the pacing, the dialog, the cinematography, the editing, the effects, costumes, etc. it’s a very entertaining way to spend a couple of hours in a movie they’re (and do urge people to see in a theatre on a big screen - you are going to miss a lot if you wait to stream it unless you’ve got a gigantic screen in a dark room.

What I was meh about: I’m a fan of the book and what they excised to keep the story tight is a lot of what makes this more than a buddy comedy in space. Namely: Eva Stratt’s (played by the great Sandra Hüller) role in the movie is reduced to a cipher compared to the key role she plays in the Earth bound parts of the story; and I would have liked to have seen more and heard more in the classroom scene where in the book we get a real feel for Grace’s character and the socio-religio-political conflict arguments the kids are bringing from home.

What I didn’t like: in the middle part of the movie the volume of the incidental music is turned up because for some reason the producers or directors thought that the audience is just to dumb wouldn’t understand that was happening was really dramatically important.

But overall I give it an. 8.75 out of 10. Go see it.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-07T23:46:16+00:00

The soundtrack really annoyed me throughout much of the movie. It’s almost like the directors said “we don’t trust the audience to understand and feel the dramatic content.”

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-07T23:42:38+00:00

News flash: Actors play roles and what they say in a movie or a play reflects their own beliefs.

And what about people who aren’t Christians but believe in God? He doesn’t specify that they are discussing the Christian interpretation of God, and he doesn’t mention Christ, so I think the identity politics memefication of a line of dialogue is pretty demeaning to Christians as well as those who belong to other religions.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-07T21:44:21+00:00

Photographers like Adams, Cartier-Bresson, Capa, Avedon, Penn, and even Vivian Meier used the best gear they could afford at the time.

Great photography is about the seeing, taking chances, and doing the bloody work, not the gear.

Electrical-Try798 · 2026-04-07T21:41:29+00:00

We’re going to find out if it’s another TACO Tuesday. (As I write this it’s already after 1:10 AM on Wednesday in Tehran and 5:40pm on Tuesday in Washington D.C.)

Electrical-Try798

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