Yep, you guessed it tonight was one of my favorite parts of #PSW and that is the party at the House of Blues.  Now I have shot here a lot in the past during previous Photoshop World events, but this one was a bit more special because besides Big Electric Cat tearing it up as always, they had a special guest (Scott Diussa of Nikon) get up on stage and got to sit in with the band.  It was a great time.  Here are a couple of snaps from it last night…

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

So recently I saw a post from Kirk Tuck and it got me thinking about something B&W portraits.  At which point it got me thinking about a blog post that Sabrina Henry did a while back about going back and review old photos and adding a new look to them.  So with the double inspiration I dug back in the files and found these shots of my good friends Jeff and Misty

Has a great time shooting these, we found the great old door in the back alley parking lot of a local pub and stayed there for the better part of an hour shooting.

The conversion for this was done in Silver Efex Pro

Captured with Mark IIN 16-35f2.8 II on Lexar digital film

From last weeks amazing time at Pedernales Falls.  Had a fair share of some serious technical difficulties as of late with my computers, but I am typing this post on my new new and improved computer, so hopefully no more problems.  And if you haven’t been over to his blog since he got back home you need to head over to Jeff’s site and see some of the spectacular photos he captured while we were out and about.  More to come sooner than later from the trip.

Captured with Nikon D700 70-200f2.8 w/ Singh-Ray Vari-N-Duo filter

Finished in Silver Efex Pro

One more from this past weekends adventures.  Saw this single Oak tree with leaves that were extremely bright compared to the surrounding trees so I did what I thought was best and photographed it

Captured with Nikon D700 24-70f2.8 on Lexar digital film – finished in Silver Efex Pro

With getting a new camera system there are things that you have to consider: What body to start with, lenses to get, and accessories to have. All of these effect your photography because you may not have everything you had before so you have to find ways to make it work until you can completely replace your old system with your new one. One thing that I miss already is my 100 Macro that I had, while it was a specialty type lens really only good for a few things, I really enjoyed using it for Macro photography. But with the switch to Nikon I haven’t replaced that lens yet, so I did the next best thing. I slapped a Canon 500D close-up filter on the new 70-200f2.8 and went looking for some wild flowers.

I have no idea the names of these flowers, but they were really fun to photograph.

Not to bad for a windy day.

Captured with Nikon D700 70-200f2.8 with 500D Close-up lens on Lexar digital film