Archive for June, 2008

Embracing failure

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

failure |ˈfālyər|
noun
1 lack of success : an economic policy that is doomed to failure | the failures of his policies.
• an unsuccessful person, enterprise, or thing : bad weather had resulted in crop failures.
• lack of success in passing an examination or test : exam failure.
• a grade that is not high enough to pass […]

Overdue dust cleaning!

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

My procrastination in cleaning my camera’s sensor finally gave me a kick in the pants with some soft focus iris images I did recently.  Check out the thumbnail.   These are all the dust spots I needed to clean up in Lightroom.  I thought slides were bad!    Dust really starts to show when you do images […]

Idea to Image Series

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I have been meaning to start some blog postings about previsualization I have had with some images.   Granted my brain doesn’t often think that far in advance, but sometimes I get lucky!   So I hope you enjoy the first in the “Idea to Image” series…
The plant shown here is a Scouring Rush […]

Playing with HDR

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I know, I know, perhaps I am very late in the game to start playing with HDR - but after reading Royce Howland’s excellent article (even though originally published in 2006) - I decided to give Photomatix Pro a try.   I have never spent much time with HDR other than some quick trials using Photoshop’s […]

Words of wisdom on creativity

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

I was catching up on my blog reading and I saw a reference to an Ira Glass video series over on YouTube.  They are wonderful segments on storytelling and creativity - told in a way that probably all artists can gain some inspiration from no matter what medium you work with.   Insert “photography” for story […]