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Going Back

Jan 302012
 

 

So as I mentioned a few posts back I have been sorting and re-sorting and filing and categorizing all of my old files.  Something that was long overdue and greatly needed…  One thing that I found while comes through the files was thin image above.  Granted it looked nothing like this when I started because back then I was all about experimenting and tweaking Settings and White Balances and when I looked at this shot when I got back to the computer IT SUCKED!!  It was a drab mess of a white balance that was set so cold that the whole image was a lovely shade of purple :)  So back when I first saw this image I said forget it, and it has sat for the better part of 4 years on a hard drive taking up space.  Now 2012 roles around and I am sitting at my desk and I see a file that says Lessons Learned..  A file that I started a long time ago with images that were pretty much the bottom of the barrel, I screwed something up somewhere, or I was temporarily insane at the time of shooting.  But, I kept this file around so I could look back and see where I have been and what mistakes I had made so that I wouldn’t repeat them again.

Long story short I come across this images and think to myself:  This was shot in RAW I can change whatever White Balance I want!!  Ok, before the jabs come out with the “DUH josh you could have done that back in ’08″ I was younger and not so level headed (or at least that is going to be my excuse at this point)

So long story even shorter.  I dropped this into Lightroom 3, adjusted the White Balance to something I liked.  Even then the color image just didn’t work for me so I went with my favorite tool of choice Nik’s Silver Efex Pro 2.0 and went to town on this image.  A few sliders here and there a touch of structure and BAM!  an image that I though was at the bottom of the barrel is no one of my favorites and is already sitting on my wall in a nice 24×36 frame.

So lesson with all of this rambling?  Keep your images, hard drives are cheap and you never now what you will find when you go browsing…

 

A Study in IR with Flowers

Jan 222012
 

So 2 posts in a week, I think this is a record for me at this point :)

With all the things I have been involved with lately and all the time I have had on my hands being stuck at the house.  I did the unthinkable and went and completely reorganized and sorted all (YES ALL!!!) of my images to date.  It took the better part of 3 days, lots of coffee and tea, as well as the better part of my sanity.  However, I was able to complete this task and in the process I found images that I had completely forgotten about.  Some of these images were from a study of light that I did on flowers a few years back.  Others just good old fashion macro photography of flowers out in the wild.  One thing that I noticed was that while the colors are rich and wonderfully please in to the eye.  I wondered what would happen if I decided to shift the spectrum of color a bit, say to the Infra red side of things.  So I gathered up a set of images and Jumped into Color Efex Pro 4.0 and had a little fun with it.  The results are below.  Turned out pretty neat I think…

 

So what have I been doing???

Jan 202012
 

Well it has been all too quite around here on the blog and I thought I would swing in to give an update on things.  Lately things have been a bit rough.  An illness I have has slowed me down greatly and made it difficult to do much of anything at this point, but I keep pressing through it where I can to keep the sanity.  So to keep my sanity I get to go outside for brief stents of time and photograph the amazing animals you see up above.  These are all rescues saved by Marley’s Mutts Dog Rescue up where I live.  And you may have noticed they have branched out into rescuing horses as well.  I am doing what I can to help out here and there but capturing the images of these guys really is something that keeps the spirits up.  The Gift of Giving Gallery that was posted in December has been doing really great at raising money to help buy supplies for the rescue to keep things moving forward.  Many images have been added along with 2 whole new collections of some of the dogs that have been rescued along with the horses.  So if you get a chance got take a look, and if you need a print snag one from there :)  All the proceeds are going to help the efforts.

 

Hope everyone is having a great new year so far

 

 

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