by Sherri on June 15, 2009
Photo #1 - Paragliding in the Sierra Foothills.
Photo #2 - Paragliding in the Sierra Foothills.
Sometimes I have a hard time tossing out a photo just because it’s out of focus. This photo is one of those photos. What I like to do when this happens is to apply my favorite artistic filter in PhotoShop CS3 “Poster Edges.”
Photo # 1 – In Lightroom 2, I set the White Balance to daylight and applied the Nikon D300 preset. Then, in PhotoShop CS3, I turned this out of focus photo into a digital art photo, by applying the “Poster Edges” filter.
Photo #2 – This is the way the NEF looked straight out of the camera.
Does this work for you? I’d love to hear your comments.
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by Sherri on June 12, 2009
Gloriosa Daisy in my yard. In Lightroom, I changed the White Balance to daylight and used the Nikon D300 preset. I also touched up a few hot spots on the petals with the “Recovery Slider.”
As a fairly new and totally hooked Lightroom user, I am always looking for great Lightroom tips. Each week, I keep my eyes wide-open for information I feel is worthy of passing along to other Lightroom users, or those thinking about becoming one. Hopefully, you will find useful information or you will pick up a few new folks to follow.
Here are my “Top 10 Lightroom Tweets of the Week” in no particular order. Enjoy! [click to continue…]
by Sherri on June 8, 2009
Photo #1 – A foggy morning along the Deschutes River, Oregon.
Today, I’m starting “Makeover Monday.” Each week, I’m going to select one image from our Lightroom catalog (NEF) and give it a makeover. NEF files straight out of the camera are dull and can always be improved with processing.
I will post both images; the image straight out of the camera and the image with the makeover. Then, I will explain what I did to achieve the results I wanted.
This image was selected for a makeover because, it is one of a series of images we are presently developing, to be uploaded soon to our Baby Boomer gallery.
Photo #2 – A foggy morning along the Deschutes River, Oregon.
Photo #1 – to get the results above, I changed the White Balance to Daylight to warm it up a bit. Then, I applied this wonderful Nikon D300 Preset developed by Christian LøverÃ¥s of Oslo, Norway. We just started using this preset yesterday and we love it! I then used the Adjustment Brush to tone down the over exposed glare on the water.
Photo #2 – this is the NEF the way it looked straight out of the camera.
Which one do you like best?
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by Sherri on June 5, 2009
Kayaking on the South Fork of the American River, near Coloma, California.
I have rounded up another group of my favorite photo related “Tweets of the Week” for you all. I hope you like them too. Please let me know in the comments section below if you picked up any new folks to follow, or any useful information. You can also suggest a favorite photo related tweet of yours, for an upcoming post.
Here is my “Top 10 Photo Related Tweets of the Week” in no particular order.
- @blackstar 10 Ways to Fight for Your Digital Rights as a Photographer http://twurl.nl/73sxyv
- @newmediaphoto Do you let clients stomp all over you? http://bit.ly/16V1ly
- @enlightphoto Travel & Leisure: Best Views of US National Parks they could find = mediocre. You get what you pay for http://bit.ly/BUDkH
- @FreelanceSw: 12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them http://bit.ly/yUgTr
- @davidsanger: Finding stolen Stock Photos with Tineye: Fakorama http://bit.ly/13M8Be
- @jimgoldstein 5 Tips to Get The Most Out of Twitter | JMG-Galleries – Jim M. Goldstein Photograp… http://bit.ly/1blPUd
- @ricksammon Top 10 Tips for Successful Social Media Marketing: http://tinyurl.com/lrurzp
- @younesbounhar Learn to see creatively http://younesbounhar.com/blog
- @paul_indigo How much photographic equipment do you really need? by http://bit.ly/RBdZq.
- @chasejarvis Consequences of Creative Vision (the final straw!) http://twurl.nl/zpx5c6
Here are the links to the last 2 weeks Top 10 Photo Related Tweets of the Week in case you missed them:
Week 1 – Top 10 Photo Related Tweets of the Week
Week 2 – Top 10 Photo Related Tweets of the Week
You can retweet (RT) this post, by clicking on the lime green retweet button at the bottom of this post. It will take you directly to Twitter. If you don’t know about the importance of retweeting, please refer to this post by Jim Goldstein.
Coming next week – Top 10 Lightroom Tweets of the Week
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by Sherri on June 3, 2009
American River Rocks, near Weimar, California.
This is a close up photo of the large rock Peg was sitting on in this photo. These little rocks were arranged just like this, when I stumbled upon them.
Holes like these are created by the water washing over the large rock into a small hole. When a little rock gets caught inside the small hole, it tumbles for a long time, making the hole bigger. Eventually, more rocks make their way into the hole as they did here.
I could have missed this photo opportunity, if I hadn’t paid attention to the smaller details in my “big picture.”
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by Sherri on June 1, 2009
Peg spotted a rock with a built-in seat.
Jeff and I went on a great hike/photo shoot with our friend Peg on Memorial Day Weekend. We were planning to hike the “Codfish Falls Trail” near Weimar. But, when we got down to the river, it was way too crowded for our liking. So, we crossed the bridge and hiked the trail on the other side of the river. Jeff and I had never hiked on this trail before. It was awesome! [click to continue…]
by Sherri on May 29, 2009
Paragliding over the Cronan Ranch, Pilot Hill, California.
I’m doing another Top 10 Photo Related Tweets of the Week. Last weeks post was such a huge success in terms of spreading great information, it just might become a weekly habit!
Hopefully, you will find new folks to follow and/or tweets that you missed during the week. That is the beauty of Twitter. We are all in this thing together and the only way it will work is to help one another.
You can retweet (RT) this post, by clicking on the lime green retweet button at the bottom of this post. It will take you directly to Twitter. If you don’t know about the importance of retweeting, you will learn all about it when you read #2 below.
- @jimgoldstein Why Social Media Matters to Photographers | JMG-Galleries – Jim M. Goldstein … http://tinyurl.com/p224md
- @jimgoldstein The Birds and the Bees of Social Media Connectivity http://tinyurl.com/pe35en
- @scottkelby talks about his shots in Nikon World Magazine http://is.gd/HmF0
- @damienfranco 20 Amazing Photographers From Around The Internet http://tr.im/mFRm
- @fotozine 8 Daily Photo Blogs That Provide Inspiration – http://is.gd/Ild8
- @ricksammon Sex, Lies and Photoshop: http://bit.ly/1216aE
- @BHPhotoVideo Three ways to shoot a quick, last minute portrait. http://bit.ly/g5w6t
- @featureshoot: Q&A with Photo Editors- Loyalty vs. New Talent: http://bit.ly/bt79n
- @davidsanger Hollingsworth on Stock Photography and the future http://bit.ly/13brQp and http://bit.ly/10il7Z
- @ricksammon And now for something complete different from me. See today’s blog post about Successful Social Media Marketing: http://bit.ly/gLEob
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by Sherri on May 27, 2009
Paraglider getting a bird's eye view of the Cronan Ranch Regional Trails Park, Pilot Hill, California.
If you are looking for a great place to have a paragliding adventure, check out the Cronan Ranch Regional Trails Park.
This shot was taken during our most recent hike at the Cronan Ranch. This guy (I think his name was Randy) was having a great flight and he put on a great show for the camera.
As it turns out, the majority of the group (about 8-10) he was flying with that day were “Baby Boomers.” That was really cool, because photographing active Baby Boomers is one of my specialties. I stumbled upon a gold mine, when I found these guys! [click to continue…]
by Sherri on May 22, 2009
Whitewater rafting on the South Fork of the American River, near Coloma, California.
Thanks to my friend and fellow photographer, Richard Wong, I have done something I thought I’d never do. I jumped on the Twitter bandwagon! For months, I would read his little Twitter message on his Photo Blog and found it quite amusing at times. But, I really didn’t understand anything about it. So, what did I do to satisfy my curiosity? I did like millions of other curious folks are doing and I signed up for my “free” Twitter account. Once I signed up, it was easy to read all of his posts and it cleared up things a bit. But, I still didn’t really get the hang of it, so I put it on the back burner for a few more months. [click to continue…]
by Sherri on May 19, 2009
Flying A Service Station, Truckee, California.
Do you remember the Flying A Service Station’s? If you do, you are giving your age away.
This is the one subject that stood out from the rest, while visiting Truckee recently. It was really fun to photograph. I took a whole series of photos of it and these were two of my favorites.
Close up shot of a gasoline pump at the Flying A.
A closer up view of the pump reveals that premium gas was going for 27 cents per gallon. Imagine that!
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