Passion for Photos

Again I used my 100-400mm lens to create this image. I used just natural light and picked a dark background.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

I photographed this Succulent plat at Gamble Garden also. I used different f stops to get just enough depth of field to recognize the plant. A totally wide open lens blurred pretty much the entire background. I finally settled at f8.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

I photographed these mountain flowers in the high Sierra mountains yesterday. I used an aperture of f8 on a 70-200 lens to get a small group of flowers into focus and use the out of focus plants as a background.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

Long lenses compress background and foreground and giving you a much more shallow depth of field than wide angle lenses. I photographed this group of flowers using a 100-400 mm lens at 400mm. I used a diffuser to soften the light and some bushes and trees served as a wonderful background.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

Last week I visited Gamble Garden in Palo Alto, CA. This is a beautiful garden to photograph flowers. for this week I challenge you to continue to work on flower photography and create some great images!

I photographed theses Sweat Peas in bright sunlight. I used a round diffuser to soften the light and block out the sun on the flowers.

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Here is my final image for the this week. I created three different layers of the same image and combined them using layer mask. The masks were hand-painted to create just the effect I wanted.

Enjoy and happy Friday!

Black and White images have their own special appeal. Many times I convert an image to see how it looks like and to discover the structure of an image.

Enjoy and keep on thinking about the potential of a single image!

I changed the daytime photograph into a nighttime image. There are different ways to do that. I used the Topaz Photoshop plug-in which has several presets for this actions. I used two of them and used them as layers in Photoshop.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

I saw this “picture in a picture” in my original image. It looks like two giant rocks in the rain forest.

Enjoy and keep discovering the “image in the image!”

This weeks challenge is to pick one image and create each day a new image out of the one image you have chosen. You can edit the image any way you like, just create a new one out of your original.

I photographed this little stream yesterday at Kings Canyon National Park, CA. Here is my first image. I changed it from a landscape into a portrait and I increased colors and sharpness.

Did my image improve? I think so. Enjoy and happy editing!