A blast from the past. Greynolds Park Love Fest 2012

A fun day of music,classic cars, arts & crafts, and hippies, old and young.

Super-moon 2012

Here's a couple of shots of the super-moon.

 

Keep shooting.

Cute Kitties (if you think tigers are cute)

 It seems every one on the internet is posting pictures of cute and cuddly kitties so I thought I'd join in. Here are a couple of kitties you might not want to hug too closely.

Remember, God gives us beauty all around so keep shooting!

There's always a shot, flowers and lizard.

As I am always saying, if you look, there's always a thing of beauty somewhere around you. Here's some shots from my front yard while waiting on a delivery.

lizard on rock

Pink flower

Red flower

There's beauty all around, keep shooting!

How to take beautiful images of the moon

Since the beginning of time, through myth and legend, science, fact and fiction, poetry and dreams, mankind has been fascinated by the moon.

Many people think they need an expensive telescope/camera set-up to get great close ups of the moon, not true.
 With todays high zoom digital cameras, a clear night, and a tripod, you can get exceptional images of that mystifying orb above us.

Here are some examples:

Rocket moon I took this one from my back yard and when i reviewed it on my computer, I was amazed at the way the clouds looked as if the moon was passing through them. Sheer luck but cool.

 Setting your camera to black and white or sepia brings out amazing details.

I think moon shots are much more interesting with some foreground in the image as in the following shots:

I hope you've enjoyed these few moon shots as much as I enjoyed capturing them.
Until the next time, look around, there's beauty everywhere, and keep shooting.

Florida Sunrise 4-24-2012

Another beautiful sunrise taken this morning

Creating Striking Black And White Images By Selectively Replacing Color

 Here is a picture of the beautiful Anita Hayes that I transformed into a black and white with a few extras.

Here's how it's done:

Open the image in photoshop then add a hue saturation adjustment layer

Slide the saturation all the way to the left. Note: You can also adjust the lightness darkness to suit your taste.

Choose the brush tool making sure that both the brush tool and the foreground color are set to black.This will allow
the original colors of the image to come back.

Brush in the areas you want the original color to come back. Note: You can adjust the size of the brush using the bracket [] keys on your keyboard.

Here are some other examples:

Chrissy with a grunge background and with selective coloring.

These are from my red hat series for Sweenys

Evelyn

Omara Vasquez

Until the next time, have fun and keep shooting.