HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year!  As I think about the future photographically, I have been delving into what some would call Fine Art Photography.  I look at it as adding an artistic look digitally.  

Some would say that it is not art... Looking at it more broadly, I think that it is due to the results of what one sees and conceptualizes, using a mechanical brush instead of a paint brush, which I think requires a talent grant by God.

Enough said.  Today's photos are some of my 'baby-steps,' using various textures and adjustments.

The first two pictures are examples, although the 'normal picture was processed with a heavy vignette.

 

December 25, 2018

I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas as we did.

I mentioned that we were in Dahlonega, GA Saturday to see the lights around the Courthouse Square.  Here are a few of them.

The first is of one of the trees and the next two are the same tree, but as I took the picture, I had a longer shutter speed and then zoomed the lens as the camera took the picture and from different angle.

December23, 2019

Only one picture of the Christmas Full Moon taken in Dahlonega, GA.  We went to Ellijay, GA for lunch and to take pictures of an apple orchard.  I thought that it could be used on a project that I had in mind, but decided against it.  

We then went to Dahlonega to see the Christmas lights around the square, which I will post later..., after we go back to Ellijay to pick up a jelly cabinet that Linda found.  It turned into a "Hallmark movie scene..." 

The lights are always very nice, however, photographers are told to look around from the shot that you are capturing.  Honestly, I did not look around!  Two ladies spoke to me about the picture that I was taking and said, "Did you see the moon?"

I did crop the photo to draw in the moon.  It was shot at 200mm and it does not do that much for something that is about 238000 miles away.

December 5, 2018

I had an epiphany at 5:30 this morning, albeit, not a spiritual one.  Taking landscape photos can be difficult this time of year due to the drabness, although snow, going to Key West, or other places are difference makers.

I was reading an article on 'seeing in black and white,' which made the point of looking for compositions that would be good in black and white.  I immediately thought of the picture that was posted yesterday and the results follows.  Now for the disclaimer.  I know that not everyone likes or appreciates black and white photos and I understand that.  Well, I try to...
 
I am including both photos for comparison noting that I did tilt the black and white photo to make the different textures of the clouds look more as an horizon and I did some adjusting to contrast the whites and blacks.

December 5, 2018

This photo is of the sky as I walked out of the house to go to work yesterday.  Fortunately, I "Have Camera, Will Travel" just like Paladin...  

A lesson to be ad is that if you see a shot that is worth taking, take it!  Within ten minutes the sky was pretty, but muted.  One of which I would not stop to take a picture.