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Before & After: Old Truck

Posted by admin on February 27, 2010 1 comments

My friend Annalivia has a great photoblog site where she’s been showcasing before and after work using Photoshop.  I loved looking at the things she’s done making her great photos even better.  This inspired me to tinker a bit as well.

I chose a shot from sledding in February at Joie’s Uncle’s ranch. To the left, you see the top photo, which is the original file, the bottom is the photoshopped file.

The knockout / cropping here is shoddy, but not bad for :15 or so of work. I munged saving my file, so probably won’t redo this more crisply on the knockout, but aside from that, pretty happy with it!

Purty View

Posted by admin on February 23, 2009 None comments



Purty ain’t it?

Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

One of the great things about living in Colorado are the mountain views. Folks like us living in Longmont are particularly lucky to have this view of the “Twin Peaks”, Mt. Meeker (13,911 ft) on the left and Longs Peak (14,255) on the right. Longs Peak is Colorado’s northern most fourteener.

It has been nearly three years, but I’m still very proud to say that I’ve stepped foot atop Longs Peak. I blogged about it here and aside from a few quick photos I posted back then, have yet to really do anything with that photo set (hmmm… I guess I’ll have to take care of that).

So, this photo I took out at Golden Ponds, where my father-in-law has a membership and he likes to take the kids fishing (and I get to come along, occasionally). Nothing remarkable about this photo, other than the fact that, it is easy to get used to such a spectacular view and take it for granted. I don’t. I love to see the sun light up Longs peak in the mornings, and I’ll post other shots I’ve taken soon.

Yellowstone Road

Posted by admin on February 17, 2009 None comments



Yellowstone.jpg

Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

No, not the Yellow BRICK Road, but rather Yellow STONE Road… This is easily one of my all time personal favorites, for a couple of reasons.

One, I generally like the composition, there is an interesting balance and symmetry with the tree line at the sky and along the road. I also like it given the element of chance – I was driving when I took the photo! The quality is further diminished somewhat, I suppose, since I didn’t bother to hang my head out the window, but just shoot straight ahead out the windshield.

Also, this is no where near the original – of course this was not shot native in black and white – that is post-production. I also photoshopped out two cars, one in the opposite lane coming towards us, and one in our lane just ahead.

I’m pretty sure this is from one of our early family vacation trips up to Idaho. The car in front of us that is no longer there was my in-laws. How fun is that? I kid, I kid! :)

I had this one printed and framed, and it hangs in our bedroom for now. This was the photo that keeps me taking pictures – I’m just an amateur like everyone else, but the magic of digital cameras is that you can shoot and shoot until you get something you really like. I like that and while this photo needed a lot of post production work, it was worth it.

Blue Bubbles

Posted by admin on February 12, 2009 None comments

After posting Blue Fracture I kept thinking I should amp up the blues for fun. So, I intensified the blue in these three ice photos using the basic tools in Google Picasa. If anyone has any other ideas on how to tweak these photos, feel free to mess w/ the originals or send me ideas. Oh, and I cropped my toes out of one of the shots too.

So, these aren’t pure, natural photos anymore, but I’m thinking any one of these might look pretty cool printed large and framed.




Blue Bubbles

Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

Vacation Grass

Posted by admin on February 2, 2009 None comments



2004vacation_grass_1.jpg

Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

Guh… nothing like six more weeks of winter to get you thinking about beaches. THANKS Punxsutawney Phil…

Thinking of beaches, this is a shot I’ve always liked – from the Oregon Coast, which I blogged a little about a few years back. In fact, this shot, or one from the series, is in the template rotation for this site, the photos appearing randomly in the top-right of the page header.

Hmmm… I kind of like the challenge of sticking to a two-word title for photos I post here.

The grasses on the beach were something I hadn’t really seen before – maybe since most beaches I visited in my youth were on the Atlantic coast, but probably more that as a kid, I just didn’t notice the grass. I’m not necessarily the most perceptive type in all circumstances.

This was taken with my Olympus UltraZoom C700UZ, which I loved (and still do) though ultimately it didn’t carry the resolution to really make any photos great. I like how these photos came out, but wish now I had more camera power.

Here are the photo properties for this shot.

I can’t believe it has been over four years since this trip. Time to get back out there.