Nothing like a nice graphic black and white. I was scrolling through the archives looking for inspiration when I came upon this one that didn’t do much for me in color and had some weird distracting things coming through the windows so I went for a different look in black and white and came up with something I really love.
I was looking for birds to photograph but I kept hearing these bullfrogs so went over to the pond to investigate. Took me awhile to find them even with the 600mm lens but I finally did. I took this one into Topaz glow to soften up the pond scum a little.
I have been neglecting my photography in favor of genealogy lately so I made a special trip to North Mountain Park this morning. I was thinking birds but the bees were more cooperative and cone flowers (aka echinacea) are always so photogenic. This one had the usual post processing in Color Efex Pro. A little detail, a little saturation a little darkening of the corners.
Here’s another one from the coast. I used a texture effect to give it a different look.
This was the best sunset picture from last week’s stay at Gold Beach on the Oregon Coast. It benefited greatly from some detail extraction and added saturation in Nik Color Efex Pro. I think this one would look good printed on metal.
Who knew Milkweed in bloom could be so pretty.
I finally got that 180mm macro lens I’ve been jonesin’ for. Took it out for a test run at North Mountain Park this morning and I have to say I am very pleased with the results. Only took me an hour and a half to tear myself away from the gardens. The birds will have to wait for another day.
This image was cropped a little from the top. Added detail and saturation in Color Efex pro and some sharpening in Photoshop.
I was playing around with some of the fun software and some old images and came up with this one I really liked using a combination of Topaz Simplify and Topaz Glow.
I have to admit I have been dragging my feet on doing the image of the week this week. I think it is because my volunteer activities are starting to interfere with my having time for photography so I am feeling a little snarfy about that. But in the end I found something in the archives to work on and here is a nice picture of a white horse and hopefully next week I will be able to get out and do some shooting!
I found this cool snail shell in the forest when I was looking for mushrooms. Good thing because otherwise I would have come home empty handed. I photographed it on my granite counter top to create an interesting background. Then I took it into Nik Color Efex Pro for detail, saturation and warmth. Next into Topaz texture efects where I started with the oily hands preset and added a light leak and some scratches. Ended up back in Color Efex Pro for a border.