The Niagara River

This image was originally 3872 x 2592. By taking larger size images you'll have more room to work with in post processing and you will probably find more uses for your images.

These 2 photos were taken from the same image. By cropping different sections of the image you can come up with different perspectives of the image.

The picture was originally of two guys fishing off the side of a pier on the Niagara River. The photo was taken by leaning off the end of the pier, and hanging over the water. The image had to be straightened and this was the first edit.

As the post processing began, I thought this section of the image had a warmer feel to it. By shooting your images large, in a good quality setting, you have more room to edit, and get different perspectives of the same shot.

Something I Started Working On

O.k it's fifteen minutes till midnight and I just remembered I almost forgot my picture of the day. I kept busy today trying to get another blog off the ground. I have a huge love of the Spanish language and a ton of stock photography on my P.C. so I decided to start a Spanish language blog.

I thought I could use a lot of the stock photography for tutorials like the image shown.

Picture of pigeons being used for spanish tutorials.

So my picture of the day is of las palomas or in English pigeons. These were taken by the Niagara River near my home.

If you enjoy learning Spanish, check out mi-palabra-del-dia.blogspot.com
I also bought mi-palabra-del-dia.com but haven't pointed the domain yet.

Graffiti In The Train Yard.

A picture of some graffiti in the train yard. I like the way this one came out. I used Gimp for the editing, but only resized the image, and adjusted the brightness and contrast. I probably should of used this photo for the brightness and contrast tutorial I wrote, because when I adjusted the contrast, it really brought out the colors in the graffiti, and also the rust on the train cars.

Daily Photo - What A Turkey !

Found this guy hanging out in the cemetery. This had to be the biggest Turkey I ever saw.

A huge Turkey hanging out in the cemetery.

After The Snow

This is one of the first photos I took with my camera that I was happy with. I decided to try and do a daily photo for the blog. This way I'll have a time frame journal of how I improve or digress.

Catching The Feel Of The Day

I've been trying to take a few pictures a day. For the most part I shoot anything available. Yesterday was a dark snowy day and I needed to go to the store for some groceries. So I grabbed the camera, went to the store and took a few shots around the grocery store parking lot, and headed home. I really wanted to try and capture the feel of the day with my camera. Not satisfied with what I shot in the parking lot of the grocery store, I decided to stop by the train yard at the corner of my street.

This is the first photo I took since I got the camera that I feel captures the mood of the moment. The cold , dark , snowy day it was, I think was captured in black and white. I also just learned how to find monochrome mode in my camera. LOL. A total amateur for sure.

As I was finishing up, I put the camera in color mode to snap some graffiti shots, and a plow drove by. I snapped a picture in color and was pretty happy with the results. I'm trying to shoot all my photo's using the rule of thirds. I think I'm getting that concept. I used to always try and center my subject matter and after doing some research and some experiments I realize how centering every shot can take away from the moment.

I'm still shooting in jpeg I just haven't learned enough about post processing yet to feel comfortable shooting in raw. I did have the camera set to A mode which I guess adjusts the aperture, but I don't know what aperture I was shooting in. Learning all the time. I'll start keeping better track of that stuff as I learn more. Both photo's are posted as shot, and I did no photo editing in Gimp other than scale them down from the original size.

Ominous Clouds

This was one of the last photo's I took with my old camera. I love the way this came out. It was taken with an old Sony Mavica digital camera.

I went for a walk at one of the area nature preserves around the beginning of autumn. I took a ton of pictures but there were only a few I thought were decent. This photo was taken in sepia mode, then edited in Gimp with the decor/old photo/ filter. Because it was originally shot in Sepia I just added the border at 20 and the mottle effect. This was the end result.