Went to Pebble Beach today with a group of friends. It was rainy and fairly cold out at the beach. So after a lunch in Half Moon Bay, some went home and Aphra and I went onto Fitzgerald Marine Preserve. Again at Fitzgerald, it was off-and-on rain.
This was a large patch of nasturtium leaves with the raindrops. After a lot of fiddlng, I am continuing my blue/purple phase and have this result. I have yet to post my “regular” photos.
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Paired up a California Poppy shot with a solarized leaf shot. After a little adjustment to lighting, ended up with this image.
Went Sunday to Berkeley Botanical Gardens. I was thinking that the magnolia and rhododendrons would be in full bloom. However, it is still a little too early. Instead, I practiced some more infrared shots. This shot was manual focus and I realized that I cannot focus as well as my camera. Maybe, I will have to get my eyes checked.
For some reason, my mood has become very orange and abstract. This was originally an infrared shot taken at the Berkeley Botanical gardens today. After a lot of fiddling, I have this absracted image. This reminds me a little of Van Gogh’s work with the heavy paint and brush strokes.
Have tried several new creative images but just could not get anything to gel. Instead, I decided I wanted another Koi Pattern but wider. I am toying with the idea of a triptych above my bed.
Decided to fix my previous creative endeavor but instead scrapped the whole idea. Started over with an infrared shot of lily pads from the Berkeley Botanical. Heavily manipulated a koi shot from Hakone Gardens. To my surprise ended up with a variation of koi patterns.
Went with Aphra to Berkeley Botanical Gardens. Since I am still in my ‘infrared’ phase, I took most of my shots with my newly converted D30. At the time, I was very excited by the lily pad shots. When I got home and processed the images, I am very pleased with the California poppies instead.
For these shots, I popped the contrast by doing a second blurred layer. The blurred layer was applied in ‘Overlay’ mode. That mode brightened the poppies and darkened the distracting background.
Many months ago made a creative image out of this tiny waterfall shot from Berkeley Botanical Gardens. Made another shot of the same waterfall and worked it heavily for another take on purple clover.
Took the girls for a walk with Chip to Sunol. It was high noon and all the vegetation is coming in a lush green. Sunol was beautiful today.
Decided I wanted a violet image. This image caused a lot of problems. It uncovered a Photoshop bug where the image did not match the thumbnail or the flattened image. After fiddling to work around the problem, I managed to get what I wanted.
Here is a Photoshop tip. When you have out-of-gamut colors, convert to CMYK color and back to RGB. All the colors are put within range and it usually looks fine.
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