And my image…
As a follow up to my last post, here is one of the images I took that night...
My old Camera
I gave my older DSLR to my daughter{{1}} so she can learn more about photography. I thought I could teach her what I know, but when we went out last…
My New D600
This review will be broken into two parts, this one on the camera and and the article following on image quality. I bought myself a new Nikon D600 last Thursday,…
100th Post
Wow, this is my 100th post on this website. Well, this is the 100th post since I upgraded my system a couple of years ago....
Straight Photography
First observation about the title, There is no such thing as a straight photograph! There seems to be a group of people who insist that an image cannot be "Photoshopped"…
Web Pages
I came across someone asking for help for his website. He has lofty goals, but I think he has bitten off a bit more than he can chew. I will…
retouching
In one of the LinkedIn groups I follow, Davesh asked for help with this image taken with, I am guessing, a cell phone camera with a dirty lens: with a…
Watch for updates
I had a look over my gallery today and realized it needs some love. I will be reorganizing, updating and purging items over the next little while. I will also be fixing search terms to make it easier to find items. Quality over quantity.
technical info after the break…
Goldstream in the fall
I went to Goldstream Park today. The leaves are starting to change, and the morning light was pretty good. Because the park is I'm a narrow valley, the sun doesn't…
Old Photos
I randomly came across this image I had taken last year. At the time I put it in my rejects pile. One of the problems with the image was lack of sharpness, but the biggest issue was that I could not figure out how to make it work as an image.
As it happened, I came across this image shortly after meeting a graphic designer named Boo. Although she is just getting back into photography, her work has a gritty style I like. It seems to work well for this image. It also hides some of the flaws in the original capture. I have not printed it yet, but I like the story it is trying to tell. A little bit more tweaking and it may end up in my portfolio…