New Territory

Took a recent trip up to Georgia from our home in SW Florida to seek out mountains (one of the things we really miss after moving from Northern California).  And we had a great time.  Mountains not as high in the area we visited as in the Sierra Nevadas, but still mountains are nice.  So here is the first image I processed from the trip:

Minnehaha Falls

This is the Minnehaha Falls in Rabun County, Georgia.  We stayed in Clayton, Georgia, which is in then northeast part of Georgia and is beautiful.  More images to come

Discerning Eyes

I almost always run my finalized images by the lovely eyes of my wife, Michele.  I appreciate her input and she often leaves a viewing to look for a place on ours walls for the new picture.  This is a new one she's currently working on where it should live. 😊

Portland Harbor

This was shot on a foggy morning in Portland, Maine, on our New England car tour back in 2015.  It sometimes takes a bit f time before I see what I want to do with an image.  After color correction I used NIK HDR Efex Pro plug-in for the contrast and structure I wanted.  I also had to clone out some spots and weird shadowing above the tops of the foreground posts.  I also created an additional fog effect in Photoshop to give it a little more density and better color.

From the Archives

Every now and then I go back through the archives of my master photo files to see if I can resurrect an older image.  Usually I'll try the image using new Photoshop skills I've learned or to use a new plug-in filter.  This is such an image:

Wine Barrels

Here I used NIK Software HDR effect with individual channel adjustments and contrast adjustments.  I find it often rewarding to look over older images with new knowledge of what can be done in the digital darkroom.

Digital Art III

I've written before about my beliefs when it comes to digitally "painting" photographs, and this is one of my favorites:

Impression, Tulips

This is one of the first pieces I made.  I created this using Corel Painter and it took quite a bit of time, mostly due to the fact that I didn't really know what I was doing.  But it was a lot of fun experimenting and see what all I could do with it.  It is indeed hand "painted" by creating an overlay of the photograph and painting using a Wacom tablet and pen.