I’ve started playing out in the studio with capturing smoke with a flash and then using a little post processing trickery on the images. (click on image for full size view)
Smoking Gun
This is a little studio play with an old black powder pistol as a prop.
NPPNW Spring Entries
These images are the ones that I entered in the 2012 Spring competition at Nature Photographers Of The Pacific Northwest being held this Saturday in Portland, Oregon. The keynote speaker will be George Lepp. It will be a case of learning from one of the best out there.
Be sure to click on the thumbnail for the large image.
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…
Rust and Reflection
A bit of HDR processing on a fishing boat hull at Newport, Oregon.
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.
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.
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.