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Backyard Birds v3

  Well that’s it. We came home the other day to see the young ones sitting in the yard under a tree. Not good with the dogs. We’re thinking, great, how long will this go on, we can’t have them stuck in the back yard on the ground, that won’t work. Luckily, a little while [...]

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Backyard Birds v2

A few more shots over the last week growing like weeds. The parents can’t keep up with the feedings at this point and need to leave them to get more grub.

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Yosemite in a warm winter

Taken back in November, these night shots of the valley were made by moonlight.

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Backyard Birds

The mourning doves are at it again. Here they are during what we refer to as “the changing of the guard” and dinnertime for the young ones! To get these shots I set the camera up on a tripod using an SMDV RFNe (low price remote trigger, check amazon). 1/5 of a second with an [...]

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A Trip to the Capitol

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Dancing Light

    During this this long exposure night shot, I had to move the camera and it created this happy accident.

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Color Deepening and Contrast using Curves

Image 1 – Coyote Peak in San Jose in late afternoon. As shot this image does not convey what it felt like in person. Also, I believe that is a minimum security women’s facility on the right. Image 2 – Using Curves, I added more contrast. Going into the blue I boosted the highlights a little more [...]

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Color Changes using Masks

  These trains can be found in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan right alongside the F150 Truck plant. It contains all types of modern machinery. To get this photo ready for processing the first thing I needed to do was a lens correction. The lack of pre-loaded lens data for Olympus in ACR and [...]

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Found on the Digital Darkroom Floor

  These two were left behind during post processing as needing more than just a few slider adjustments in Lightroom and have languished in storage until now.  After looking at each one for a while things took shape in my head about how to present each photo. Half Dome from Tunnel View was taken in poor weather this [...]

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My Back Porch

I could go on a photo safari, I could spend hours traveling someplace else. Or I could walk out on the back porch and see what is going on out there, ten feet from my cup of coffee. This bee is covered in little bits of pollen and someplace between one flower and the next doing his [...]

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