Feb. 28, 2009

Have not found anything to really take a shot of that made me want to go after.
I did find some pictures of some things in the backyard and near the house. The weather is suppose to change tonight, so maybe some things will be pushed in from the ocean.

Feb. 26, 2009

Got down to Florida for a little while and took some images today. I hope to get them posted in the next few days. Was really shocked by the lack of birds at the Alligator Farm and at the ocean, but did get some good sunset pictures. I hope the situation improves for wildlife, I wanted some shots of certain birds, but none are around.

Feb 23, 2009

Been playing with some images to keep from being too bored until I leave for Florida and go shoot some at my favorite places for a few days. I will post some from Florida if I get to go, back is causing me a lot of trouble right now. I want to try my new camera out. I got a Canon 50D to shoot faster shots to go with my 5D I use now.

Here are a couple of images I shot a while back and just now getting around to looking at them. I like the natural backlight of my granddaughter and the sunrise at Monument Valley is what you expect from that region

Feb. 16, 2009

If you have not seen or used the new adobe CS4, you are missing a really great tool.
I have been playing with the content aware scaling and it kicks butt. It allows you to remove dead space or add space to your image without ruining the image, you can protect areas, skin tones, etc. Check it out at www.russellbrown.com

Since the weather has been blah and I have not been anywhere to take images lately, I have been doing more playing with past images from some of the trips. I am trying to get a handle on some of the finer points of photoshop to make the images look more like what I saw in the camera.

Feb. 10

I have been working with some photoshop lessons, trying to pick up some things to do with images to make them artistic, since I have about as much artistic talent as a rock. I have found a couple that are fun to do, and if you have the right image they are pretty good. I will post a couple to show you what I have been able to do with really very little skill, which is right up my alley.

Here are an example of what I was able to find.

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Feb. 1

Today it was almost 60 degrees after being snowy and cold all week, so I took off to take some pictures with my son. Well, it was really hard to shoot, the sun and everything seemed to be against taking a good image. But, we went anyway. Did find some new areas to shoot, when the time is better.