A sign around our hotel in Santa Barbara.
Pick It Up
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Flying In Formation
Playing with Lightroom to see what I can come up with. My post processing workflow has been simple, curves, contrast and sharpening. Tweaking with colors is not something I do very often. The other night I thought of this image and seeing what I could come up with in Lightroom with color changes. The image below is the original. What do you think?
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Smoky Mountains Revisited
Sunrise – 2003 This is an image taken back in 2003 on Foothills Parkway during a week long trip to Smoky Mountains. It was my first experience visiting the park. I loved the park and am surprised I’ve not returned. It was a memorable trip in that I dropped and broke a Nikon 80-400mm VR lens so I spent the last three days shooting with my longest focal length of 85mm.
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From a Walk
Inniswood Gardens, Westerville, Ohio I’m finding it takes more time to shoot images with this G12 than it does with my D300. It feels so awkward to me. I’m used to raising a camera to my eye, framing and shooting. This was taken on a walk around our hotel in Santa Barbara. Again I do like the quality of the images.
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My Shadow
My shadow drinking a coffee on the airplane With an hour wait before our next flight and all passengers had deplaned I rushed off to get a latte. I came back to the plane and took a front seat and proceeded to relax, no passengers, no engines. The sun was just about to set in the west casting my shadow against the opposite wall of the aircraft. I knew it would make an interesting photo of my shadow with a coffee in hand.
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Simple Lamp
A Lamp Available to all photographers free is the one light source given by a window which faces the north. It’s a painterly light that any face or still life comes alive in.
Garry Camp BurdickI love the light whether it’s morning light or evening light and everything in between. There is something about seeing window light as it fills up a room, bouncing light off of back walls mirrors, curtains, bedding. Hotel rooms and lobbies can offer some interesting light so I’m always looking for those times.
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Under the Trees
Under the Tree “The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.”
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Two Silos
Two Silos Still playing with the G12 and have a few things to share with you. I am very pleased with image quality, colors, sharpness and the noise (under 800). Love the small size and find it so much less intrusive when people see it. I really have struggled with the ergonomics and controls. It’s a far cry from the SLRs I’ve been using for the past few years. Over time I will be able to know the camera better and be able to change settings quicker than I do now. I hardly use the viewfinder, finding the LCD display to be the better solution for me. Seeing the histogram before taking an image is helpful. The above image was taken out at the Arapahoe Nature Area. Just across from this nature area is an old abandoned farm with a barn, couple of silos and some corrals. I knelt down low and placed the early evening sun between the silos and used the widest aperture the camera has: f8.0. I don’t think the lens did too bad a job with a starburst.
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Leaning Tree
Leaning Tree It feels strange and awkward to sit here in front of my laptop with an intent to write. I’ve just not had any inclination to post thoughts, ideas or images. The desire to log on to anything just hasn’t has not been there so the computer has sat dormant a lot. This has been good as I’ve felt controlled by the need to post, write and all of your blogs. Forcing myself will not cut the mustard.
I have been on the go a lot lately. Seems like I come home do my laundry then always pack my clean underwear back in my roller-board for the next trip. Never use my dresser any more. The reality is I have not had a dresser since I moved back out here.
Anyway here is a shot from our hotel in San Francisco looking out over the Bay. You can faintly see an airplane coming in for a landing where the horizon meets the leaning tree.
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All Smiles
All Smiles This is Grandma Linda and Granddaughter Brooklyn. I caught them eating the cream cheese off the bagel. Asked them if I could get a photo, they agreed and added two wonderful smiles.
