Hey guys and gals, I hope your week has been going well so far.
As usual, (Or at least for the past couple of weeks) here are some more photos to help you get through that last final day.
Since I weeded out so many photos from two of my albums I have decided to post them both. Click the links below to check them out.
Enjoy!
You heard me. Cut. The. Crap.
No, I’m not saying that you need to stop making excuses (Although, that probably would be a good idea). What I am talking about is, more or less, an epiphany I had a little while ago.
I love to track stats for marketing or, in this case, my blog as I watch it grow. I like to see what gets the most clicks, views, etc. so I can improve the site and my photography in general. With that said, my epiphany came when I was looking through a friend’s photos on good ol’ facebook.
I started browsing through the photos. Then, about 20 or 30 photos in, I started to get tired of looking through them.
And that’s when it hit me…
The 4th of July was this earlier this month and there is no way I am going to let it slip by. This year I had the privalege to spend it on the lawn of the Department of the Interior building. All I can say is that it provided a spectacular view of the fireworks.
I’m going to keep this post short and sweet by saying Happy Birthday America. Best wishes to everyone who took to opportunity to celebrate the 4th no matter where you were.
Don’t worry every one. I’m still alive. A lot has been going on lately that has caused me to more or less have to take a break from the site. While I wanted to keep posts going, I didn’t want it to become a portal site. Those things are everywhere.
Don’t fear, though. I’ve still been taking photos and am working on getting some new equipment that will allow me to bring a different look to my photos.
I’m also tinkering with changing up the look of the site. So I guess we’ll all have to wait and see how it turns out. With that said, I hope everyone is having a great weekend. Keep Shooting!
It took just a few months, but we’ve finally hit 200 views within a single month. In February none the less! So thanks to every one for checking out my blog. I’ll do my best to keep things interesting for you by adding more photo galleries and links to tutorials that I like.
Hopefully we can get over 300 views for March and and even more the next. Call me silly, but the marketing side of me loves this sort of stuff. Anywho, I’ll be putting up another post shortly to finish off the Auto show pictures. Feel free to look through the rest of the posts while get them put up.
(p.s. I’m also working on a new surprise for you guys that I think you’ll enjoy)
Come on now. You didn’t actually think I’d up and leave you hanging like that, would you?
It’s been a few weeks so I thought I’d give you all something nice and juicy. Recently I purchased a copy of Adobe CS4 and have been playing around with a lot of the new features. Thankfully there are all sorts of great tutorials online. One tutorial that I recently came across, and really liked, was from Peachpit.com. They’ve got all sorts of great how-to’s, but this one in particular caught my eye.
It goes over how to combine photos with different areas of a subject in focus and blending them together to create a nice macro image with a very large depth of field. The best thing about it is that it’s super easy to do. Sure, there’s a little tweaking here and there, but overall you should be able to create some very useful images. I might also add that it is a very useful when doing macro photography.
Just check out these examples.
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Here’s another example with my friend’s RC Car.
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You can even make some interesting photos if you aren’t careful to keep the camera perfectly steady as you change the focal points.
Happy New Year Everyone! Or New Year’s Eve rather. I hope you all have been enjoying the holiday season so far. Sorry for the delay in postings, but all that Christmas shopping was keeping me pretty busy.
With that said, here is the Christmas Extravaganza in its entirety. You should be happy to hear that I also am beginning to transfer all my photo sets over to flickr.com for easier viewing. Speaking of getting stuff taken care of, I was able to get some new software coughCS4cough, and will hopefully be trying out some new techniques. Eventually I’d even like to create my own website.
Until then, all of you go out and have fun tonight. Please drink responsibly though.
Click HERE for photos from the extravaganza.
Sorry for the delay everyone. I was out of town again this weekend, but here are the second batch of photos from the Christmas Extravaganza. This really shouldn’t be a spoiler for any of you, but yes, Virginia Tech did win the ACC championship. Don’t worry, the final set will be up within the next couple of days.
For the rest of the album click HERE
This past weekend I went down to Richmond to hang out with some friends of mine. By friends I mean 40 of them, for the entire weekend. While I actually didn’t know all of them at the beginning of the weekend, I certainly knew most of them by the end.
Every year some friends of mine like to throw a big party around Christmas time called “the Christmas Extravaganza”. In all honesty it really is an extravaganza. A bunch of our friends get together around the first weekend of December for an entire weekend of two-hand touch football, a semi-formal dinner, white elephant gift exchange, and an all around good time. Unfortunately, last year I decided that I didn’t time to make it down for the festivities.
After seeing all the photos that everyone posted when the got back, I knew I wasn’t going to let it happen again.
Click HERE for the rest of the gallery.
No, not the holiday, just all the photos I took during the day. My computer decided that it didn’t want to let me edit the photos in RAW format and therefore not let me put them up for everyone to see. I guess I’ll be buying the new version of photoshop after all.
Don’t worry, I’ll put up some older photos instead.
