Author: Mike VanDeWalker

The Twisted Twelve

The flowers used are gladiola, iris, rhodie, daffodil and one tulip tree bloom. Hope you enjoy. They were fun to make.

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Photo Art

After looking at all of the “photography” that I keep seeing on different sites and in our club competitions I have come to the conclusion and I may be being a bit of a purest on images that I am shooting. I try to shoot what I see and process it the same way. With…

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Rust and Reflection

A bit of HDR processing on a fishing boat hull at Newport, Oregon.

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Where to draw the line?

If you are at all prolific on the Internet it is interesting to go to different search engines and type in your name or your business name and see the results you come up with. An engine I had not used is http://duckduckgo.com/ so I thought I would give it a spin. In doing so…

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Black and White… or shades of gray

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Feb. digital competition at EPS

Time for the monthly digital night competition at EPS. Two entries in the “Motion” category and one in the old pictorial category. I bet you can figure out which is which.

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Old look trials

I was told last night by an archival print-maker that was doing some club judging for me that I should try monochrome on this image. He saw the color version. I hadn’t played with the image in other than color. I’m not going to post the color but here are a couple of monochrome treatments.

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Broken Pane

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Sprung

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New Lightroom Presets…

I’ve been playing with some new presets I found for Lightroom. Always searching for better starting points to work from with black and white. Comments welcome.

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