Please click on any image for a better view. Boating on the Beagle Channel, South America Walking in Wales, Black Mountains Playing with Penguins, Punta Arenas, Chile Gazing at Glaciers, Switzerland Dining on the Danube, Budapest Ailsa’s travel theme: Adventure Continue reading Adventure
It IS possible to get a decent shot from the tour bus window while moving at speed down the mountainside 🙂 … with some basic cropping and cloning and the tweaks provided by editing programs. I use Sagelight. Please click on any image for a better view. Continue reading Photo Editing – from the bus window
Paula’s Thursday’s Special: Pick a word: I decided to follow Paula’s lead and interpret them all. Please click on any image for a better view. Populated – King Cormorants on an isle in the Beagle Channel Time Sensitive – Mirabilis Jalapa, or commonly known as Four O’clocks because they usually don’t open until around four o’clock Companionable Clandestine And lastly the burgeoning city … Continue reading Companionable, Burgeoning, etc
Vivacious – makes me think of the wood faeries dancing when nobody is looking Please click on image for a better view. original Continue reading Photo Editing for Fun
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. Please click on image for a larger view Paula’s Thursday Special: Inflated Continue reading Bubble/7
Composition is one of the elements that scared me the most when I first started painting. I did not have a handle on what made a composition ‘good’. But it’s true that the more you do the better you get and composing my photos is becoming second nature. I look for something on which to ‘hang’ the composition. My first image (click on images to enlarge them) … Continue reading More about Composition
I’ve been reviewing some of my photos and thinking, “this should be a pretty good image, but it isn’t. What’s wrong with it?” Then I reverted to my painting and composition background and realized, “They are too busy. If I’d painted this it wouldn’t be so cluttered.” So I set forth and changed the landscape :). Here are two examples. The black hole on the … Continue reading Photo Editing: Redesigning
Some shots from a canine agility show this past summer, on the Frisbee field . . . these fellas really enjoyed themselves. Please click on the images for a better view Continue reading Let the Games Begin
One photo, four ways over the course of the month. A great chance to play and see what develops 🙂 My original – click on any image for a larger view My first changes are adjusting the grey scale and upping the detail. Next week I will take this adjusted image and go from there. Robyn’s One Four Challenge 2016 – Feb week 1 Continue reading Robyn’s One four Feb/week 1
Sometimes I edit to improve my original image – set the grey scale, tweak the detail, raise the contrast. Sometimes it’s to remove elements – the garbage can sitting the background, the telephone wires draped across the sky, the back end of a car destroying the balance of the image. And sometimes I like to transform my image – using distortion techniques, or extreme zoom, … Continue reading Photo Editing: Transformation
Paula at Lost in Translation invited Tobias M. Schiel to host her Thursday’s Special challenge, the theme being organized noise. Please read his interesting and thought provoking post. I really like the term ‘organized noise’; it has such possibilities. What rang true for me was Tobias’ comment – ” . . . there is also the aspect of organizing noise into music – or visual ‘noise’ into pictures. Some … Continue reading Photo Editing: Organized Noise
There were several stately trees in the park in Belcoo, which is on the main road through this small village in Northern Ireland. To do them justice I needed to show scale, as shown in the image above. Click on any image for a larger view. Continue reading The Trees of Belcoo
Sometimes there is more than one image hiding within a single photograph. Here is a nondescript, ho-hum photograph of the 15thC tower house of King John’s Castle in Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland, followed by three different images cropped from this one photograph. Please click on any image for a larger view. #1 In addition to cropping I judiciously removed any elements that I felt were … Continue reading Photo Editing – Cropping for Effect
The village of Kilfinnane in Limerick, Ireland. My original shot left something to be desired but the take out of the car and the lamp post on the extreme left made for a reasonable composition, and saved the shot. All editing done in Sagelight. Click on the images for a larger view. Continue reading Photo Editing – the take out
I spent all of December at the hospital with my husband and it became my only source of subject matter, but I took photographs to distract myself. Now at home I have begun to view and edit them and as I do so I realize my editing choices are very much connected to my experience. I suppose this is always true – we are, after all, the sum … Continue reading Photo editing – we are what we edit
Dungarvan, Ireland – click on the image for a larger view Continue reading BW vs RGB – Dungarvan
Sometimes I just can’t decide if i prefer the black and white version, or the colour version, so I am offering up both. Bridge over the River Nith at Thornhill, Scotland Continue reading BW vs RGB -Nith Bridge
Play time. I like this photo, for its composition and subject matter, but it’s a little too soft for my taste. So I played. First up, I worked on the detail, contrast and lighting. The HDR creates a haloing effect resulting in the grey sky but in this image I liked it and kept it – I think it goes well with the mood and … Continue reading Photo Editing Two Ways – House at Sandside Bay
Nancy Merrill’s A photo a week challenge: One photo, two treatments This the original image shot in Ottawa’s Byward Market I cropped to provide a focus for the image and enhanced detail And then for fun went high key Continue reading Photo Editing Two Ways – Byward Market
Stacy at Visual Venturing hosts After Before Friday. This week Loré Dombaj at Snow’s Fissures and Fractures graciously agreed to stand in while Stacy takes a break. This is my original image. I liked the shadows and lines but beyond that I found it uninteresting. There is no point of interest. I decided to give the girl on the right a greater role. In cropping I … Continue reading After Before at the Bus Stop
Beyond the Brush 