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“4 2″ (A or B)

How’s that for cryptic title. “4  2″ is what I have entitled this image for what is a hopefully obvious reason. The “A or B” is because I will show two versions of the same image and would like to know which you prefer.

Here’s the story. I made this image yesterday morning shortly after sunrise [...]

Two More

… Lensbaby images. I hear the groans. I understand. I attended a presentation last night by Tony Sweet, he of the workshop I attended back in late October and one heck of a photographer. He also happens to be a Lensbaby “guru” and presented some Lensbaby images during the course of his presentation.

I also had [...]

A New Toy for My Bag of Tricks (Lensbaby Composer)

I’ve been carrying the Lensbaby on my want list for way too long so I finally decided to do something about. I ordered the Lensbaby Composer early in the week and it arrived on my doorstep late yesterday. So of the course, the first order of business for today was going to be to put [...]

And Now for Something a Little Different – The Old Covered Bridge (IR and Topaz)

Objective: Experiment with IR images for the purpose of taking them beyond the typical IR landscape image; To utilized some of the more creative techniques that I have been using with color images on IR images.

Location: Bogert’s Bridge, Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pa.

Time: Today at High Noon

Conditions: Sunny; Shooting position shaded by a large tree

Camera: Canon [...]

The Colors of Autumn (Before & After Topaz)

I love photography. And I love creating realistic images… images that capture what is before me. But the creative side of me continues to want to experiment both in-camera and in post-processing. And I am finding the Topaz Suite (Adjust, Detail, Clean, Simplify, etc.) to be a marvelous tool for releasing the inner artist in [...]

Passion vs. Innocence

Last winter I was working on a series of rose images in which I tried to capture the emotions/feelings connoted by different color roses. A red rose connotes passion/love while a white rose connotes innocence/purity. Last year’s image were, for the most part, macro/close-up images of single roses.

While I was at the market yesterday (remember [...]

Pom-Pom

This is what I do when the weather refuses to cooperate. For the past couple of days, the weather has been cold, windy and rainy. Not exactly the kind of weather I want to wander around in with camera gear if I don’t have to. So what to do? First, I went to market and [...]

Digital Art Alert – Autumn Leaves

I continue to be smitten by the Topaz Suite for Photoshop and I continue to experiment just because it is so much fun.

This is obviously an autumn foliage image from our trip to Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (PA) this past weekend. While I liked the photograph as it came out of the camera, [...]