Screw Pureisam!

Screw it.

Photoshop Tuts?

So I was thinking the last few days...

I no longer wish to tear out my own neck with my shaved-bone fingers, in a bloody cacophony of hatred and depression whenever I see a camera or Photoshop... In face I am enjoying taking pictures again, and shopping them.

I also realized that most of the tuts on the net, for Photoshop, are for strange crap, or fixing small things in a photo... But none of them show you just how to use Photoshop, or elaborate on what certain tools do, and why they are different from all the other ones.

So I was thinking I could fill this niche, that is if people actually would want to see something like that.

My question is: You guys think I should do that?

Pikes Peak in IR

I know this is a crappy photo of Pikes Peak, especially in IR, but I hadn't uploaded anything recently, so I picked this one out. Hopefully better stuff is to follow.

I proved you can shoot Lightening during the day.

And here is the proof. It sucks compared to other stuff I have done, and even worse compared to stuff other people have done. But I shot this photo at 4:00PM in the afternoon.

Mutterings

Just another Photoshop Job on a normal photo.

LOOK! I /can/ take normal photos!

See! I AM able to take photos that aren't random abstract and IR! I think this one is pretty good. Sure it isn't the "normal" photo of one in flight... but if you have ever tried to track down a humming-bird and photograph it sitting on a limb... you know it is just as hard as getting one in flight.

Two_Old, Never Dead

Just some Photoshop work

I was board this afternoon, so I found this old photo from the last major frost storm a month or so back. I have been playing around with creating some more custom Actions, and this is one of them I used.

IR is interesting...

So, I was out today, taking some photos in IR (Inferred Photography) and noticed something very odd, and very disturbing, in the sense that I have to reformat my brain into thinking in a totally different way. How is this, you ask?
Today I discovered that the direction you shoot is totally proportional to the quality of your IR photo. That means, if you shoot away from the sun, your photo will be a lot more red, if you shot towards it, you get a redish-blue tint to everything. What appears to be two totally different photos, just by turning around. In SD Photography (Standard Digital) this doesn't happen. Your shadows and contrast change, but the color and contrast, shadows, and even highlights, changing? No.
Anyway, these photos don't demonstrate it, but I think they are pretty.

Water Drops

So I took these last year when the flowers first bloomed. It was right after my friend watered them, so they had nice, big drops on the petals. Here's a small tip for you Macro photographers out there: Always carry one or two spray bottles with you, a large nozzle one, and a small nozzle, for big and small drops, but here is the trick; put a little dye (any color) in the water, and a very small amount of ether sugar or salt (sugar for sticky drops and salt for long slow moving drops.) The color will help to catch the light. I didn't add anything to this water, as it was from a faucet.
Anyway, here are they are.

See! I can use Standard Digital too!

Now, isn't this pretty?  Took this last-night.  It was a whole lot colder then it was supposed to be, but we still got a good shot.  The only photoshopping here is color-enhancing of the fire, as in, I brought down some of the highlights and brought out some more shadows, then reduced some of the gradient noise that is inherent with LEP.  Outside of that, everything else is strait out of camera.

I haz a Knol

So, I just dicovered this thing called "Knol."  If you have something to say, you can say it here. Know how to do something better then anyone else?  Write a report about it, here:

http://knol.google.com/k/thomas-gordon/-/bfsgjkigonuc/0#knols

I have posted one so far, about IR, the same one I posted on my website, but I plan on doing an abridged version, also, I am planning on doing a "How To" for my LEP, and a "How To" for Color IR.

I was thinking of using Blogger...

Well, as I said before, I was going to talk about the complexities of Digital IR (Inferred) technology, but I realize, being the man I am, I would rant for a very long time, with many, many photos and pictures, so, to make this simple, I will post a link to my website with the detailed rant there.

My Website is:

http://www.tagvoar.com

The exact link to the IR Rant is:

http://www.tagvoar.com/The_World/The_Rant.html

Yet More IR. This time with lots-o-photoshop

Okay, so this is a photo I shot a few days ago, I don't know how I got the color in the first place, and I know even less about how I got these effects in Photoshop!  I really enjoy shooting in IR, but damn it, it is like a completely different world, in the literal sense.  I'll offer an example in my next post, for now, enjoy this photo!

Today's IR Photos

I shot these photos today.  Again, I only touched up the color in Photoshop.

More Photoage

So I just took this about a day ago.  I like them.  The Rose Photo is Photoshopped, all I did was enhance the color, nothing else.  The IR photo is also enhanced in the same fashion.

So it begins...

Well, I was informed a while back that I should start a blog if I wish to ever get a job as a true professional photographer.  I don't see how, and\or, why this will make any difference, but they way I see it, I have to much free time, so I should blog.  That's the cool thing to do when your not a teenager... right?  I'm I hip yet?

Anyway, I have a very limited concept of how this whole "interwebs" thing works.  This blog an't going to look pretty, but at least it is here!