Taxco
Some shots from Taxco. Mexico's biggest silver mining town. If you are ever in Mexico and you EVER buy any silver, buy it with a stamp from Taxco! Otherwise it is garbage plate and will wear off is a few months. The Mexican government is harder on people who sell fake Texco silver then they are on drug dealers!
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These are...fair.
I enjoyed them. I especially like how you captured the ''city on a mountain''..
Keep them coming.
Taxco is a city built entirely on the very steep sides of a gorge. When you are one side you can clearly see the other side. It's amazing how the buildings and homes and stores are actually mostly built on top of each other. I don't thing I have ever seen anything like it before. Even the two cathedrals are perched half on top of other buildings.
Upon your request I did some editing of your photos. In most cases my adjustments were not extreme except in a couple of them. I'll number then and explain what I did to each one.
1. I slightly cropped it to make it comply more with the rule of thirds. In other words, not to put the main subject in the very middle of the photo. I applied clarity, lightened up the shadows a bit and adjusted the brightness up a bit.
2. I did not edit the second photo. If I had cropped out the distracting bottom left foreground the photo would have been almost the same as the first one.
3. I applied clarity, sharpened it, and adjusted the contrast, mostly to get through the mist.
4. This photo was very misty, so I had to adjust the clarity considerably, sharpen it, apply contrast and adjust both the colour saturation and temperature upwards.
5. I didn't edit this photo for the same reason as the 2nd photo.
6. I cropped this photo, increased clarity somewhat and brightened the shadows.
7. I thought I would play with this one a bit, so I increased the clarity, super-saturated it, considerable colour temperature increase, and adjusted the contrast. I thought it might better depict the hot bright-sunlit colour of Mexico.
8. I didn't do this one because it was just going to be very similar to the first one.
9. Although this is similar to the third photo, I did it to enlarge the Cathedral. I cropped it, increased clarity and sharpness, brightness, colour saturation and temperature to accentuate the colours somewhat. What is that strange black shape behind the right side of the dome?
10. I rotated slightly to level it, increased clarity, brightness and contrast, and increased the colour saturation to bring out the gold colour. I also cropped out the dark sides that distracted from the main subject.
11. I slightly rotated this one, cropped it, increased clarity and brightness, and increased the colour saturation and temperature slightly. Although this photo is similar to the previous one, it was taken from a closer angle and shows the detail a little better.
12. Last one. slight rotation to level it, increased brightness, clarity and sharpness, and increased the colour saturation and temperature to warm and golden-up the colours.
Hope you're happy with the results, Randy.
Very, very nice! I think I like 9 the best!
When I was taking shot number 6 I was actually standing out side of a silver jewelry shop with the shop owner swilling tequila blanco (passing the bottle back and forth with him and one of his employees) while my wife was negotiating with his wife for the price of a necklace (she got the better part of the deal, even he agreed drunkingly). He was the one who suggested I might have have good shot there. I don't think I took another shot while we were there but we sure had a good time for the next hour or so waiting for the bus to pick us up. GOOD TIMES!
The details just needed to be teased out, softened here and there, defogged, and boost the color. A little cropping and straightening too.
Taxco and other photos are Gorgeous.
Please keep these photo essays coming.
Enoch.