I miss my camera

Had to send my Nikon back for a "warranty technicality".  I told them to just pretend I sent it back and switch the paperwork.  Nope...  They have to send me a different camera with a different serial number.  It is going to be a long week without it.  I keep feeling like I left something behind.  I guess I can work on some of the hundreds of existing pictures I have collected in the last month.

Updated Lighting on Horses

Original picture with greyed snow and background.



Photo with brightness and contrast adjusted to whiten snow.

I was able to adjust the brightness and contrast in the original picture to whiten the snow.  I left the barn alone.

Logo

I started with a picture my daughter took with my camera.  She was taking pictures of herself in the car through the mirror.  As I was reviewing them I noticed one that had clouds in the lens.  Very cool!  I tried to duplicate this picture with myself many times...fail!  I really liked the clouds in the lens, but for the logo wanted to break away from a solid photo as my main theme.  I took the original picture, cropped it a tad and lightened it a tad.  I opened it in Photoshop and used the poster edge filter and added some text.  I then created my film strip with pictures that I have taken and warped it.  I moved the pictures into Power Point and put a soft edge on my filtered picture.  I played around with placement of the warped film strip and filtered picture.  I found something that I liked and grouped the files. I turned the merged file into a JPEG.  I then turned the JPEG into a PNG and removed the background back in Photoshop.  This first picture was my inspiration.

This is the finished version.

This was a sample I was working with using 3D Cube Wrap in Photoshop.  I couldn't place my film in a way I liked so I abandoned it.

Flowers

These pictures were taken at the Botanical Conservatory.  I wanted to try my camera in the warmth.  I am really struggling with getting out into the cold to shoot.  I can't wait for Spring.

These pictures all display depth of field.  I did not edit any of them.

Little Red Barn

I saw this little barn driving around Harlan today.  The red was beautiful against the sky.
This is the straightened and cropped picture.  I manipulated this using Photoshop.

The lower picture is the original.

Down by the River

This photo was taken by Jan, 2012, by Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort Wayne, IN.  

The photo is adjusted in Picasa.   I adjusted the coloring, lighting and contrast.  No cropping was done.

This is the original photo.

Composition

This is a photo that I took behind IPFW at a barn by the Plex on January 21, 2012.  The sky was beautiful.  I was using a UV filter for the first time.

I tried adjusting the lighting, saturation and color. 

I finally settled on a cropping.

More cropping in Picasa

This photo was taken in Fort Wayne on January 28, 2012.  There was a carriage I noticed as I was driving.  Again, I had my camera in my lap and snapped a shot at the traffic light.

Using Picasa I was able to crop out a lot of the junk and focus in on the horses.

I took the picture a little farther and straightened and lightened it with Picasa.

I think I like the unlightened photo better.  The browns are deeper and look less washed out.

Cropping in Picasa

This is a photo taken on a Sunday afternoon in January 2012, in Grabill, IN..  I was driving and noticed an Amish gentleman trying to get his horses corralled into the barn.  I had my camera in my lap as I was hoping to catch some horses in a field. These pictures were taken from my car on the fly with very little time to set the shot

I cropped the photo in Picasa and was able to zero in a little bit and catch some detail.  This is the shot after I cropped it.  I was able to eliminate a lot of the white that washed out the picture and took your eye from the subject.

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