A spring ride, part 2

A couple of weeks ago my freind Ashley and I went for a little ride. I have posted a couple of picks of her from the ride, now here are a few more.

I enhanced the clouds a little, and then brought out some details in the forground. This is from a road looking over a mountain farm. We are looking at Canton N.C. I want to go back, maybe this Saturday, to see about getting some spring flowers and leaves....a little spring color, if you will.

This is another image I took. Actually, I walked about 100 feet and turned about 90 degrees and captured this image. I worked on this image for a New York minute trying to pull these details. I like the clouds, But when I worked on the detail of the mountains, I think they worked out well.

A little further down the road, we encountered this barn. I had to enhance the clouds a little, but for the most part, this image is straight out of the camera.

She was out for her morning stroll.

I pulled some detail from the barn interior. But this ladies' natural beauty is all of her own.

The whole reason for the ride and shoot was to take pictures of barns. Believe it or not, there were some chairs by the door on the right. I love photoshop!

olc

A spring ride with Ashley. Part 1

The riding season has begun! 

Ashley reached out the other day and said let's ride! We talked about a bunch of stuff including up coming shoots. I guess she has found a guy she likes and he has a Chevelle which he has refurbished. I need to figure out where is best to highlight the car and Ashley. Hmm, This could be a lot of fun! I wonder if I can get him to pay for the lens rental???!!! I am going to do a little boning up on car fotog and the angles used before this one. Though the guy may not be big time, I really don’t know, he may know someone who is indeed an avenue to photographic riches. HMMM...

O yeah, the ride and shoot we already had, is the subject for today! The truth, is I have not gotten a chance to look at the images and I only took about forty, but I think some came out well. I did work on one with Ashley in it. Unfortunately, part of the sky was washed out in muddy white clouds with no definition, so I had to crop it severely. It looks OK on screen, but I fear it may not print well. 

During the post processing though, I used the new Photo app from Apple. It is great for removing objects that distract from the subject! However, the importing and exporting of images is a little problematic and I need to ponder if I want to be restricted by Apple's need for control.

The sun was a bit of a problem during the whole shoot. Clouds kept obscuring the flow of light and the later in the day, say mid-afternoon, the clouds began to leak. There was one series of shots of a red barn with the mountains in the background that may have come out nicely, But I know that I will have to do some work on them to make ‘em right.

More when I have worked some more pics and have an idea where it is all going.

                                                                                                                 

This is the first image I worked from the shoot. As I am still learning EVERYTHING about photography and post shoot processing I am pretty happy about this result. But because I am ever inquisitive, I went on line, or someplace to see what I could do to improve the whole picture. You see, I cropped the crap out of the original. The clouds are over exposed and make the whole thing hard to look at, so I took them out. Now I know how to modify the image to “pull” info out from the image. SOOO…

Well, I know that the beautiful Ashley is still a little out of focus, But you can still see her beauty. Not only that, but we can see beyond her where I have enhanced and defined the clouds and landscape a little.

More later!

olc

Streaks in the sky

As a courier, I do lots of deliveries. Many of the places I go to are personal homes and others are to businesses. Most of the time, for most deliveries we never go back unless the customer is getting a number of packages. However for a few accounts we have a schedule and make deliveries on a planned basis. I can build a relationship with some of these recurring customers.

One of these customers in particular has a rather challenging life, yet his attitude is always gracious and welcoming. He has a garden and I think that it fulfills him in ways that I cannot understand. From his garden the earth gives him sustenence in the form of vegetables and herbs. The man has found it in his heart to share some of our earth's bounty with me. For this my life and my Runtyun's life are better.

Thank you sir for your generosity!

I had delivery in Tennessee one early Saturday morning and decided to take my new camera along with me just incase I had the opportunity to get some shots. Well, 100 shots later, one stood out. There were others but I saw that this one had potential.

After working on it and trying to find the sun rays and pulling out the colors and definition I came up with this image. When I took it down to the local photo shop to get it printed, I was disappointed to find out that the file size was too small for a good sized printout. Needless to say I was a little disheartened. After hours and hours of post production versions of the image, more than 20 at a guess, to find out the image would not work---well you can guess at my feelings.

I went home and decided to print it on my cheap desktop printer to see what the image would look like and guess what! It was beautiful! So I went down to the local CVS to use their printing kiosk. I figured that for less than $5.00 if it was no good...

The image came out beautifully and I plan to matte it and give it to my friend at my next opportunity.


olc