The following series of images were taken from Warbeth Beach on the main island of the Orkneys. We are looking towards the island of Hoy as a furious storm boils up and clears. I walked along the beach and took photos with various foreground elements I thought were interesting.
Signs of spring creep in at a slow pace, the birds start to trickle back, trees to leaf, and the grass becomes greener. Suddenly one day, it seems to bust forth with a rush and the main sign is the flowering shrubs. Forsythia first, and later lilacs and flowering dogwood. My favorite is the Redbud. This specimen has toppled in some long ago wind but still brings forth these gorgeous cascades of color.
St. Martin/Sint Maarten is an island in the Caribbean shared by a French (St. Martin) and Dutch (Sint Maarten) dependencies. It is located in the Lesser Antilles, also known as the Leeward Islands or French West Indies.It is a lovely island for a holiday with many wonderful beaches. (more…)
This Photoshop technique allows you to add highlight information to your image. It is useful for images such as landscapes where portions of the sky have blown. Note you need an image which was shot in RAW to use this technique.
In our example, the portion of sky in front of the storm has some rose portions and then some blue sky, which can be seen when the exposure is reduced. We want a properly exposed image which incorporates this information.
1. Do an initial RAW conversion of your file allowing the highlights to remain blown but with the balance of the image in the right exposure. We’ll call this the light image.
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This tutorial is done in PS CS2 but can probably be performed in many versions. It works best with images with a full dynamic range, that is with some portion of the image close to absolute white and also to black.
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You’ve taken a lovely image but you wished you had left more room on one side. Here’s an easy method
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The following photoshop procedure will allow you to create a realistic motion blur on any portion of the image.
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It can be amazing to watch a Great Blue Heron catch and eat a large fish. After catching the fish with a lightning strike, it brought it to a shallow spot where it proceeded to strike it repeatedly, impaling it each time. No doubt it wanted to make sure there would be no movement of the victim when swallowed and a possibility of a severe injury from the fishes fin spines. It would also serve to help digest the prey, a formidable project involving masses of scales and bones.
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I came across this ball-shaped Dunlin, (Calidris alpina) at Point Pelee. It was among a group of about 20 others who were feeding while making their way to the tundra of the far north to breed. But this Dunlin was not like the typical Dunlin like the image below. It kept itself hunched up in a ball like this but otherwise acted just like the others. Perhaps it had eggs ready to lay, or was ill, but it certainly looked different. (more…)
A misty morning at Point Pelee produced this cooperative Wood Thrush. One of the finest singers, it does lovely flute like variations with an introduction and a counterpoint.
It breeds in the deep forest of eastern North America and it’s numbers are in decline due to loss of habitant, and parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbird.
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