You’ve got Mail

May 202010
 

So traveling home from TLS I decided to head to New Mexico and cruise around to see what I could find.  And I found Encino, NM.  Neat little place with some of my favorite subjects old building and signs.

First place that caught my eye was this abandoned Post Office.  Great part, it still had a working mail slot.

Just down the street was an abandoned motel with and I quote “Lo Low Rates”  Probably why they went out of business.

More from the road trip home tomorrow…

Captured with Nikon D700 24-70f2.8 on Lexar digital film

Window Art

Apr 152010
 

So this is a shot back from when I was in New Mexico in January that never made it onto the blog back then.  But since I am getting ready to head that way again on my way to my buddy Jeff Lynch’s Texas Landscape Safari next week, I decided to go back through some images to see if there were places I wanted to go revisit.  I found this image in the archives and realized that I had done nothing with it at this point.  So I started playing around and decided on a solution to make a neat image.

So first off I decided to start this out as a 1 shot HDR editing the image in Photomatix 3.1, and got what you see below:

So it is overdriven and has some funky halos and blues going on not to mention a TON of noise that got introduced in the process.  So I went from here, convert the layer into a Smart Object and started the real work.

Step 1 was to drop the image in Nik’s Dfine 2.0 to axe the noise from the image.

Step 2 was to go into Nik’s Silver Efex Pro and finish the image how I wanted.  Up top is the final result.

Enjoy and have a great weekend.

Looking Down

Jan 282010
 

If you went to Photoshop World in Vegas at the end of last year and made it to the Art of Digital Photography Panel you would have got to have seen the Master of Self Projects Joe Glyda do an amazing photo slide show based on just “looking up.”  Seeing what is above you because sometimes you are so busy looking straight ahead that you miss the world going on around you.

So while I was in New Mexico, I decided to take a bit of time and look down.  While I didn’t find as much as I would have liked I did find a few things that were fun to shoot.

First up with this old water meter cover that while it didn’t do anything for me in color worked created with a bit of Silver Efex Pro’s Holga filter added, with a few modifications of my own thrown in.

The 2nd, and slightly more odd is this old set of can opener keys from (at least what I can figure) is the remnants of an old sardine can that was laying on the porch floor boards of an old house.

So while I didn’t find much on my little self project in New Mexico I leave you with this thought.  Make sure you take time to really see what is going on around you in the world.  You may pass by the photo of a life time if you don’t stop and take a look around.  With our busy lives these days it isn’t always an easy thing to do, but I encourage you to try…

Images Captured with 1D Mark IIN 16-35f2.8 on Lexar digital film

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