Tonite, Chip and I took in the movie, Zathura. Chip vetoed Pride & Prejudice immediately. In fact, we had a fun time and the kids in the audience loved it. Walking back to the car, I took a quick snap of the Good Guys store.
This is the first time that I tried out the Tiles Photoshop filter. Try it out under the Filter | Stylize | Tiles menu.
I am currently reviewing old images getting ready for a portfolio review at the end of the month by Fotovision. This was taken a few months ago but never processed. I struggled with cropping but decided that it is good enough to put up tonite.
One more from my visit to Sunol. I have visited these roots several times and tried various shots. This one is ok but not my favorite.
Taken outside my work while returning from lunch in downtown Oakland.
This was taken just below the visitor center in Sunol. Tried maybe 4 different crops before choosing this one. If you look close, there is a tent in the right-hand side. I burned it down to make it less prominent.
Tip: I have been using Pixmantec Rawshooter for a couple of weeks now. I find that I can get much closter to my final output while still in raw. I thing that I love is the composition grid. It shows the rules of thirds even while cropping. I simulate that with setting the dividers to 33.333% in Photoshop but cannot see them for reference while cropping.
After wading into Alameda creek for the last shot, I sat down to get my feet clean and put back on my hiking shoes. After a while, I noticed this shot. To get the angle of view, I needed to use my fisheye lens. I also had to shoot this as a high dynamic range image.
For this shot, I took off my shoes and rolled up a pants and waded into Alameda creek. After fiddling around for about 10 minutes, my feet were numb but I did get this shot.
This afternoon, I following made it out to Sunol. I had planned to go several times but never seemed to find the time. I am trying to make more infrared images to fill out a portfolio to be reviewed at the end of the month.
One of my few infrareds from Napa. This is a trellis in the vegetable garden at Copia.
This shot is a variation on Reynold’s Winery #1. This shot was taken with my zoom lens while #1 was taken with my fisheye.
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