I'll be posting my recent images on this blog…
Kings Gap IR, No.1 - IR Converted D200
Here’s two more images from my mid day IR trip to the mountain. Always fun to take the IR camera out and see what I can find…bad light, hard light, almost any kind light at all can yield something in IR.
Kings Gap IR, No.2 - IR Converted D200
Don’t know which one I like better…they both have very different moods. Both images were processed in Nik Color Efex 3.0 using the Tonal Contrast and Paper Toner filters.
Kings Gap Overlook IR - IR Converted D200 - Click for larger view
The weather was so great today, actually above 50 degrees two days in a row…so we took a drive up to Kings Gap to take in the scenery. Not very good light for landscape photography but in IR things take on a whole different perspective. This is looking north west towards Huntsdale from the mansion porch. You can see all the farms in the valley and a couple of buzzards were gliding around too.
Kings Gap Overlook IR 100% Section - Click for Larger View
OK the buzzards are a little hard to see in the top image so here’s a 100% section of the image. I am a IR junkie, either you love or you don’t, me I love it…
Repetition and Color - D700, Lensbaby Composer
Playing around with some flower shots in PS…fractalius filter and some color addition.
Sea of Yellow - D700, Lensbaby Composer
Shot this at home with some window light and an off camera flash using my Lensbaby Composer. Did some additional work in PS using Nik Color Efex 3.0 and added some fractalius filter to just the one flower.
The long range weather forecast actually had a 50 degree temperature listed on it…sure hope it wasn’t a typo.
Cherokee John Slaughter - Detailed
Just saw a really neat technique posted on Scott Kelby’s blog by his Guest Blog Wednesday person. It’s by Calvin Hollywood a Photoshop Artist located in Heidelberg, Germany. Calvin does some nice stuff and showed a technique he uses to add detail to his images, no he didn’t use any Topaz plug-ins, though you might be able to get the same or similar look using Topaz. His technique just uses PS, blend modes and the surface blur filter…I’m not going to repeat his info. Just go to the posting “It’s Guest Blog Wednesday featuring Calvin Hollywood” at Scot Kelby’s blog and view the video in the posting.
Click on the image in my posting to see it larger and check out Calvin’s neat technique…see you can do all this stuff without plug-ins or you can get some Topaz…
Sorry John, for making you look like a mean character but this image was screaming for this effect.
Blue Abstract
OK we’re going on a journey today to somewhere in my imagination…this is a mirrored abstract of a flower I shot the other day. Well that is where I started and just went with whatever felt right in PS. No real concept, just having some fun…
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Pink Flowers - D700, Lensbaby, Topaz & Fractalius
Here’s two more from my nursery walk-about yesterday. The pink flowers were using the Lensbaby Composer with the soft focus optic, finished off in PS with Nik Color Efex 3.0, Topaz Adjust 4 and the fractalius filter. Just a little of each, nothing over the top.
Purple Tipped White Begonia - D700, Lensbaby Composer
This purple tipped white begonia was shot with the soft focus optic too and finished off in PS with Nik Color Efex 3.0.
Yellow Begonia Waves - D700, Lensbaby Composer
I’m getting REAL tired of winter and all the blah whiteness so we’re going to splash the blog with some strong color… Went over to the one of the local plant nurseries with my camera with a Lensbaby Composer and the soft focus optic. I added the +10 macro lens on so I could get in close to the flowers. Walked around all the wonderful color and started snapping whatever caught my eye…the begonias looked REAL good so did the crocus.
Purple Crocus - D700, Lensbaby Composer
Now isn’t that better than some colorless winter image…I’m starting to feel warmer already. A little fractalius filter was added to the Yellow Begonia.
Loch Ness at Dores No 1 - D700, 24-70
Going over some images from our Scotland trip I found these HDR black and white images I forgot to post. We were looking for a place to get down by the loch for a special request from a certain family member. As we were getting ready to leave the hotel in Inverness we ran into the hotel manager and asked him where we could get down to the water. He gave us some great directions and pointed us to Dores. Both of these were shot down by the boat launch area. A Frenchman was in his van getting ready to take his kayak out. It was a bit breezy and there was a chill coming off the water. Not the kind of day I would like to go kayaking alone…
Loch Ness at Dores No 2 - D700, 24-70
I can still feel the chill coming off the water…
Letort Lawman and Lady
Some more images from the “Mid Winter’s Ball” photo-shoot, couples this time…all fine folks.
Professor Tinker and Saddie Silks
Sgt. Hochbauer and Dances With Toe Shoes
Jingles Jerr and Bonnie B Good
Some of the images work better in sepia but some of them really need color…as you can see in the “Jingles Jerr & Bonnie B Good ” image. Just wouldn’t be the same in sepia now would it.
No, that’s not their real names…it’s their alias/handle they use in the cowboy action shooting group.
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