Welcome to another month of After-Before Friday, where participants take a photo and each renders their own interpretation of it. The other photos are hosted at Visual Venturing by Stacy Fischer. This month, Ben Rowe, of Aperture64, volunteered a photo of the Pendennis Castle in Cornwall, England. I encourage you to visit both blogs –…
It’s time again for the ABFriday One Photo Focus Challenge, in which a photograph is provided for readers to interpret with post-photo processing. This month’s photo came from Loré Dombaj at Snow’s Fissures and Fractures. To see how other photographers interpreted this picture (and they will be wildly different), click here. The original started out like…
Last week, I started a technical series of how to post process photos of stained glass windows. In Part 1, I went over taking and selecting which photo to use, making adjustments in Adobe Lightroom, and moving the picture to Adobe Photoshop for more complex work. Part 2 showed how to correct for distortion (i.e., keystone…
In my last post, I began a technical series of how I processed some photos that I took of stained glass. Click here for Part 1, which explains how I selected the photo and began processing in Adobe Lightroom. Click here to see the original post with all the photos. At the end of the last post,…
A few weeks ago, I posted stained glass photos that I took at St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church in downtown Bar Harbor, Maine. Everyone ooh’d and aah’d appropriately, then one of you stuck your hand up and said, “How did you do that?” It turns out she has a number of stained glass pictures taken during…
One of the things I enjoy is working with difficult photos to process them and turn into something pretty. I also try different things and thought I’d let you see my process. Here’s the original photo, straight from the camera, of a bay window at night in Charleston, South Carolina: The lamp is overly bright…
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. ~ Oscar Wilde One thing that makes nurturing my creativity hard is the difficulty in accepting that failure is necessary in the process of learning the craft, that the learning curve is messy and long, and the frustrations are endless. It might…
So I’ve been rather missing around here and it’s weird to sit and try to write the first blog post in a long while. It’s not like my life was wildly interesting during my break. Mostly I decluttered the house (in a big, big way), cooked, and read. I lost 40 pounds. Woohoo!!! Which…
My favorite boy toy has been in love with the camera for years and I have the pictures to prove it too! (Click here for pictures of a younger boy toy with his camera.) He’s encouraged me over the years to do it with him, with varying levels of success. Not that I’m stubborn or anything…
Living The Seasons 