Not sure if this fence was built by a drunken cowboy or what but Iliked the shapes and patterns of the barbed wire and the texture of the old wooden post. I’m finding in flat light situations like today black and white is often the best solution.
Category Archives: Macro/Closeup
Day 31 – Red Poppy
I got so caught up in identifying the image of the year and creating a web gallery of “best of” that I forgot to post anything yesterday. It seems only fitting then that the image of the day is the image of the year. Now that I’m done with that editing and processing exercise I am afraid I really am going to have to go out there and brave the cold and wind to create some new captures.
Day 30 – Milkweed seeds
Well, its a good thing the weather is improving because I have just about finished with editing and post processing for 2015. Just have to narrow down the best images of the year. This one may make the cut but it has some tough competition. This one was shot back in September at the butterfly garden in North Mountain Park.
Day – 26 Iris
I made good progress on the editing and post processing yesterday. I just forgot to post my favorite image. This Iris was shot back in May. I think one of my New Year’s resolutions has to be to do a better job of editing and processing at the time. Though sometimes it is easier to delete files after the emotional investment has dwindled.
Day 24 – Golden Blossom
I’m still furiously editing the 2015 images. This one was shot back in June at Shore Acres. This is a good example of when it is ok for the subject to be in the center of the frame. Post processing involved detail, saturation, denoise and sharpening.
Day 20 – Geranium
OK, confession time. This was shot last February in San Diego which was in winter. Yesterday I completely spaced out the image of the day so didn’t do anything new. But I was looking at this one on Saturday when I actually had a chance to go for a photo walk. And it was certainly worthy of posting. Never give up the project just because you screwed up. Now, I’m off in search of Day 21.
Day 19 – Oak Leaf
Finally a day that was warm enough and dry enough to be outside. As a brown leaf against a blue sky this was interesting but I don’t think I would hang it on my wall. I decided to go monochrome to celebrate the veins and texture in the leaf. I also edited out a lot of extraneous branches. I denoised and sharpened after taking it into Silver Efex Pro where the border was added. Now I think I might hang it on my wall.
Day 18 – Poppy
Still playing catch up in the nice warm, dry digital darkroom. I don’t know how I missed this poppy in the first edit but it seems to be close to the holy grail of poppy portraits. Here’s hoping that ll this winter rain will bring a glorious spring wildflower season next year.
In post processing I cropped a little, added saturation and denoised. A little darkening of the corners for depth.
Day 17 – Dandelion
It is becoming very clear to me that a big part of photography in winter is catching up on post processing. So I will make no more excuses about not shooting something new. Yesterday while beginning the tedious job of combing through all my images from 2015 and deleting those of little or no redeeming value, I came across an entire file of spring wildflowers that had not been completely processed. This Dandelion is just on of several I brought along. It benefited from cropping, saturation, and sharpening. Though It is a little distracting I still like the blurring one peeking out in the background.
Day 16 – Leaves in Water
It’s getting to be that time of year when I have to start weeding the files and trying to come up with my best photos of the year. Sometimes I come across one that was never processed that has real potential as in the case of this one of Japanese maple leaves shot in Lithia Park’s Japanese Garden back in November. If the weather doesn’t straighten up soon there may be a lot more processing and a lot less shooting in the coming days.