Shane and DaNielle August 29th 2009

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Journey to Sunrise Mt, Granite Falls Mt Loop Hwy 2009

My day to play hooky form work, the first of many images. After 32 years at work you may get bored with your challenges. The Airplane business is good, but this is better. I certainly don't plan on quitting my day job because the pay for photography for most is absolutely lousy.

The freedom to being able to press yourself to create an image is inspiring and sometimes a scary task if you are not willing to fail, and fail miserably.

I love color and lots of it, others may love 100% reality. I have seen few images that I love that were not created first in the photographer minds eye. In order to take a great photos consistanty, you need to see it first before it enters the camera.

On your journey to capture beauty, you may find more on the way then at the destination. Please stop and pause, click your shutter. The sun may never rise in the manner expected, why pass up on one light for another, if the beauty is present already? This was a total of 5 shot +<- 3ev bracketed and developed in Photomatix and CS4.

Bicycle Enthusiasts

Get Well Effort with Humor

As the case with cancer patients, people my shave their heads in show of support with laughs and giggles along the way. The crew depicted above is showing support for one of their own by wearing mock neck braces for one of their own recovering from neck surgery. We wish Rob well, the prognosis looks very good. The shot was taken indoors color balanced for the flash and another shot balanced for ambient sodium vapor and blended together. The camera was set on maual +1 EV, 1/3 sec F 6.3, 17 mm 17-40 EFS, fired two remote 580 EX flashes either side of camera with ST-E2. Ambient was I believe 5.6. Thanks for looking.

Photo Of The Day

The trees where shot with a slow shutter speed and the camera gently rock upward during exposure to create the blur effect. Additional filters were ran in photo shop to add warmth and brillance in NIK EFEX Pro 3.0. Sharpen with unsharp mask in CS4. Thanks for looking as always.



Walking on my property this morning noticed these little guys under the trees from with last fall's leaves. Processed in CS4, Topaz "denoise" and "adjust" with vignette.

Tug Boat Water Color

The image here has been edited and played with in CS4, I am learning to experiment with my new set of pluggins from Topazlabs.com. Topaz makes a series of pluggins for Photoshop that work as described and are affordable in comparison to the many top brands at hundreds of dollars more. You can buy the entire CS$ suite for $150. Some of the functions seem to overlap, you can view online tutorials videos on each filter to get an idea of their function.
Each filer can be purchased seperately as well. Thanks for looking as I experiment with Topaz.

Don

Jumpin Tree Frog Batman

My grandsons Alex and Jayden captured a small tree frog in the yard, albeit 1 to 1.5 inches long. We grabbed a piece of black cloth as the even light faded, placed it and the from on the table outside. The yellow streak was from ambient light and the more green tones where from a flashlight. Three images are combined into on here using lighten as the blend mode. The images were taken with my Canon 10-22 mm. It seems to focus very well close up. My 40D images where heavily cropped in order to more fully fill the frame. In the end, the frog lived happily ever after in my back yard.