Roses

I have a flash, and anyone who has ever taken photography a little seriously will understand that using it is a little intimidating. So Friday night, I spent a minute taking a few pics of a rose bush that Is blooming. It was around 1100 PM and I was a few beers into it and this is the best of the lot. What do you think?

I cropped it a little but did little else to improve it. if you want I can give spec on aperture, and other info.

Finally, I have finished working the Car show!

 This is the engine of a Vette. I liked the chrome and red juxtaposition enhanced by the blue go the body. I did a Little enhancement of the shadow areas, but nothing more.

This car has the name Bad Penny, I think it is a '57 chevy. I enhanced some of the colors, but did nothing else.

Here is the engine. On this one I worked the sky a little.

These are the pins that hold the pins in place. I pulled some color out to make the rust vs. chrome pop!

I learned a little from this shoot. Mostly, I need to talk with the owners to get information about the history of the cars.

So, what do you think?

olc

Corvette!

I was cruising Craigslist to settle my GAS needs. I found a guy that had a tripod for sale that was in my price range... (.50 cents or less!) He had one that was only $25. This is perfect because I want to mount my flash on it for portraits. We made arrangements to meet at the local Foodlion.

I showed up there and saw there was a car show going on...at sunset...with the sun shining on all of that chrome...

My buddy and I made the deal, I think it was good, but all I was thinking about was getting over to the cars, so I don't really know yet, LOL.

I need your opinions here. Which is better?

The first image has a little blur in the background...

While the other is straight out of the camera.

Both have a little work done with the White Balance, but that is all. It is a subtle difference, but one that could be important .

So, please leave a comment on which image you like better!

Thanks olc

Cutie at Pack Square

Last night my beautiful Runtyun her friend Angie, her Mom and I went to watch a movie at Pack square. It was raining a little, but still nice. The movie was fun, Big Hero 6. As we were waiting for the movie to start, I spotted this little cutie. There is some more going on in the back ground.

All I did was crop the photo a little and adjusted the White balance.

olc

Feed ME!

At the warehouse where hold the freight I so proudly deliver, there is this colony of birds. Their eggs hatched and the parents have to feed them. When we walked onto the bay the parents would dive bomb us. Originally I wanted to get pictures of this, but they flew too fast. So this one came along.

All I did was crop the image a little. no other PP

olc

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

The Grinner at sunset

I call my bike The Grinner because of the facial contortions I experience whenever I ride it. The Runtyun and I talked about what we would call the bike. She wanted to call it Bob.

The other night I rode a little and found this place looking over Looking Glass Falls from the Blueridge Parkway. To tell the truth, I don't think The sky was so well defined. So, I played around a little in post. I enhanced the clouds a little. Then worked on the rock face to pull some more details. Of course, The Grinner was perfect, so I did not do anything to it.

It seems that I take a lot of pictures of the bike. I am always looking for people to have as models, so if you want to be immortalized in digital media, let me know. All we need is you and a nice background!

olc

Took a ride last Saturday night

This is my first forey into shooting the moon. I used my 55mm-250mm lens set at max. I think the exposure was pretty long, like 4 seconds. By the time I was able to take the pic, the moon was too small to fill the view finder, but I think the image is pretty OK.

I did a little PP to enhance the shades of the moon, but other than that the image is straight out of the camera.

olc