Getting a star-burst in a photo is not as difficult as it may seem. You may have seen photos like the ones below. Both photos were taken within seconds of each other. The first one shows the sun as a big blob of light. The second photo shows the sun with star-burst “fingers”. The star-burst Read More …
In today’s electronic world, almost everyone has access to a camera. Whether it’s your expensive professional DSLR with interchangeable lenses, filters, flashes, and all the other accessories, your “free-with-contract” mobile phone, or any camera in between, we all have one, usually within arms reach. It’s easy to take that photo, but when we go back Read More …
This particular shot was taken on one of the first cold mornings from the parking lot of Clingman’s Dome in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Clingman’s Dome is the highest point (6,643 feet) within the Smoky Mountains and the third highest point east of the Mississippi River (Mt. Mitchell (6,684 feet) and Mt. Craig Read More …
I’ve been using Lightroom 4 for since it’s release and I was curious as to exactly what the sliders actually due in the Develop Module. Here is a list that I found from Adobe Support: Exposure Sets the overall image brightness. Adjust the slider until the photo looks good and the image is the desired Read More …
Inside Palmer Chapel Welcome to the first of a feature that I’m going to call Before and After. With this I plan on posting images, both before and after, and summarize the steps that I took to go from beginning to end. I hope you will like what you see and get an idea of Read More …
Dodge, burn, double exposure, vigetting, color correction are some of the many techniques that are used in the darkroom. With today’s digital cameras and post processing applications, such as Adobe’s Lightroom, Apple’s Apature, and even Google’s Picasa, photographers can achieve the same effects as before, along with many other forms of digital manipulation, the final Read More …
Today, January 18, 2012, a lot of the websites that I frequent are protesting the SOPA and PIPA bills that are in the House and the Senate. These bills, if passed would censor the internet and slow economic growth in the US. For an explanation of what SOPA and PIPA are, and how these bills Read More …
This is a dead tree across the street from our house. The image below is the result of an HDR project that I worked on this evening. This image is a combination of three images taken with different exposures and then merged.
