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Category Archives: Photos
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 [...]
Posted in Birds, Inspirational
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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.
Posted in Birds, Inspirational, Photo Processing
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Yosemite in a warm winter
Taken back in November, these night shots of the valley were made by moonlight.
Posted in Photo Processing, Yosemite
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 [...]
Posted in Birds, Inspirational, Lightroom 4
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 [...]
Posted in Assignment, Coyote Peak, Masks, Photoshop
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 [...]
Posted in Assignment, Colorizing, Masks, Photo Processing, Photos, Photoshop
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 [...]
Posted in Assignment, Photoshop, San Francisco, Yosemite
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 [...]
Posted in Inspirational, Photos