Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Editing and Enhancing your Photograph

I would really like to get the background changed up but but fixing the blown out white shirt the picture looks much better to me. One of those projects that I will get to keep working on.

Here is a picture of my boss Bernice and her husband

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Monday, November 27, 2006

JPG Magazine: Issues: 7

JPG Magazine: Issues: 7 I bought this magazine at Barnes and Noble. I liked it so much I subscribed. You can download the magazine as a PDF here, or you can scroll through the pages by scrolling through the Issue Preview. I enjoyed the photography, many of the photographs represented the kind of photography that I value.

Photography Composition Articles Library

Photography Composition Articles Library There is good information here, although I think that the best composition comes from feeling not thinking.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

The River Yatra: Ganga Yamuna

The River Yatra: Ganga Yamuna The photographs on this web site transcend the beautiful. Spend some in depth time exploring. The real thing!

River Yatra

River Yatra Exhibitions A great set of photographs, explore this site for in depth photography of India. Beautiful!

Friday, November 24, 2006

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

FLICKR

Here is my FLICKR account URL. This is a neat program to share photos with my friends and family. Some of my friends use RINGO, and the programs seem similar. I do like that this does not take up room on my computer. I also like that I can make it private or public. I look forward to trying this out a bit more.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47355067@N00/?saved=1

Organizing my Photos

I have been organizing my personal and work photos by year and then by event, I did download Picasa and it went through all my pictures. I like my original system, other than I can tag a photo for the massive searches, i do like being able to tag for various things like fire or family. I played with the Picasa program and it has some nice features and maybe I am just stuck in some of my ways as to not like the new, but it was fun to try somrthing new and different, but as for know I think I will stick to my old stand-by.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

The Toy Polloy--Smells Fishy!

The Toy Polloy--Smells Fishy! I love the look of these photographs. I have been noticing, when scanning my old negatives, that I really like some of my odd and flawed photographs. I want to try some of these tools.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Dan's improved photo

We took this photo at the White Mountains of me and our car. As you can see, it's too dark because it was taken towards the sun a bit too much. Doesn't really look like a nice, bright sunny day, does it.

With some adjusting of the levels and some dodging of the darker areas of the image (me, the car and the shadows of these two), I was able to bring out the brightness of that day.

Dan's 3 edited photos

This picture was taken 11.11.06 on the White Mountains where a couple of us made a day trip. One of us even took his snowboard...

This is the original:

Turned into B/W by converting the photo into Lab-mode and deleting the A&B-channels. The remaining L-channel was given a small boost by turning up the lightness with curves.

Edited to give it a speedy look with motion blur.
Added dark vignetting around the corners to give it more substance.

This has some more editing done on it.
I used specific filters to give it the snowboarding-style grungy effect.

The Online Photographer: Seen It Before?

The Online Photographer: Seen It Before?
As always from this web site, this is a thought provoking and helpful way to evaluate your photography.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers

The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers
If you want to use the photographs in the book to do the exercises you can download them from this URL.
Steve