Three. Cows. Photography.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Clay Pot, by Valery

Minor tonal adjustments in Camera Raw 4.5, cropped to square format in Photoshop.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Retro

Shot with my new Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 macro lens (SWEET!). Tonal adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw 4.5 & edge burn-in in Photoshop.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

The full size image has subtle a subtle cross-hatch detail which unfortunately does not come through in the web-sized image. Working on flower photos lately... more to come. Oh, and a wedding this weekend!

Sunday, August 03, 2008

"Cartago"; "Stream"

Going through shots tonight. Couple of B&W's that i liked.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Main Street, Hanapepe

While we were on Kauai, we took a drive out to Hanapepe on a Friday evening. There, once a week (on Fridays) this dumpy little seaport town becomes a hotspot of local art and culture. We had a blast walking around and looking through all the artist galleries - it was quite a treasure trove. I didn't have time for a lot of shots but liked this scene on the sidewalk late at night, as everyone was packing up to head home. I could spend a week there shooting and not run out of things to see. You might notice the "Lilo and Stitch" painted on the wall; this part of Hawaii provided the chief inspiration for the setting of the Disney film of the same name (see here for an interesting article). Cool!

Gauges

A few years ago I shot the three dashboard gauges in one of my dad's lonely, battered-up old cars (old cars being one of my absolute favorite photographic subjects). I meant to hang them as a triptych and only ever got around to framing the right and left gauges... I really should print the big one! They were shot with an Olympus 4MP point n shoot so what I really need to do is reshoot them with my DSLR so they can print better; the left and right are 5x7 and the middle is 8x10, which are perfect sizes, but they could use the higher resolution.

Grandma & Sonya

I enjoy a good black & white portrait... this one was a fortuitous shot while Grandma and Sonya were having fun with Sonya's new cousin Eli.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Rocks & Surf, Kauai

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

One of my favorites... and a new book.

Reminds me of how great Hawaii was. Definitely a recommended destination!

Bought this book:

It's really great at demystifying the RAW format and how to use it in Photoshop. Highly recommended... it's quite incredible what you can do with the RAW converter before you get the image into Photoshop - almost all of the work, really. Very cool book. After two days I'm almost all the way through it. Buy it!