Category:Software
Last week I needed to figure out which of my photos I had published and which I had still waiting to go. I did some Google research but didn’t find exactly what I was looking for so I decided to figure it out myself using Lightroom Smart Collections. At the end of my workflow, I generate a full-size jpeg image that I move into a specific folder. From there I publish to my store on SmugMug. But since I process […]
Washington Barn, or perhaps dilapidated Washington House comes from an image I took in ’95 somewhere out around Snoqualmie / NorthBend in Washington State. Either the original slide is a tad out of focus or the slide scan is, or maybe both. The slide is not between glass so it’s not held perfectly flat. But I was hand-held with a telephoto on a cloudy day and, this being film, no option to crank the ISO up to compensate. So what […]
Having lived in Paris for two years it’s certainly one of my most favorite cities. Much more compact that London, I find it to be a very walkable city. I took this photo of a window box while wandering semi-aimlessly around the Montmartre area of town, near Sacré Coeur. The original image is from 1998, scanned into Photoshop and then run through Topaz Simplify to get this effect. I don’t have a wider view of this scene but I can […]
This is a short article on better black and white photos with Topaz Black and White Effects. Why Black and White? We live in a world of color so why black and white photos? Perhaps it’s because the older among us grew up with them in the newspapers and with black and white TVs. Maybe it’s because so many images are color these days that black and white stands out from the crowd. Maybe it’s because, with the color stripped […]
But as I turned onto the Beatty Road I suspected there might be an image looking West as the rays of sunlight crept over Tucki Mountain.
I don’t for a minute think that my photo, ‘Mummy’s Little Helper’ shows child labor in a pottery factory. I think it just shows a work environment where a mother was allowed to bring her child to work in order the keep an eye on her.