Even though no one cares...

I will still post here, simply saying:

In the last many... many... MANY months, I have not taken any photos, and the ones I have, are, to be short, appalling and terrible in their totality.

I have tried, desperately to take good photos, and simply can not. I have not been able to do anything creative. My mind mulls the same lines, over and over, never changing, never growing.

So, I suppose my muse grew bord with me, and has ether committed suicide, as my quote would suggest, or, perhaps, entered menopause, and thus, no more sex-drive, and thus, no more power.

Regardless, if, and (hopefully) when I take more pictures that are worthy of showing the light of day, this will be the place I place them.

Oldies but goldies.

These are all some really old photos I shot when I first got my D200 (before it became an IR.)

Just some Boom and a nice IR shot

As the title says:

They totally suck, but I feel I should post them anyway, as that was probably the last great storm of the season.

More Lightening in the day.

Below are two photos, shot during the day from the same camera, in the same place, of the same storm. The first is HEAVILY Photoshopped. I had to crop the photo, then adjust the Levels to bring out the lightening in frame, then enhance the colors, then change their hue to make it easier to see and smooth out the color, then add a Soft Light Layer to smooth the color out. If I hadn't done all that, you would have only seen a bright white line in the sky. The second is photoshopped, however: I cropped the photo, then changed the Levels on an Adjustment layer, then masked off the lightening, enhancing the contrast of the lightening. As you can see by the ground, it is about 6:00pm Mnt. time.

Anyway, I enjoy capturing lightening during the day.

WARNING: Don't do this unless you are willing to run a VERY large number of cycles on your camera. I shot about 1,000 photos, and only two had any lightening in them worth showing off. Each frame was from ether 3 seconds or 1 second. This type of photography puts a MASSIVE strain on the camera, just remember that. Also, shooting lightening during the day can be very dangerous as you can see the flashing of lightening further off, or lightening that could be coming your way.

WTF? Color Digital IR sucks.

Alright, I was out last night shooting lightening. Unfortunately I missed any strikes with my IR camera, but I did get some great shots of clouds... The thing is... for some reason, my camera saw Purple in the clouds, not blue, like it should have. The following two photos are my favorite, and all I have done is Unsharppen Mask, then Saturate\Vibrance the colors. I did not add any, only enhance the ones that were already there... and when I did... What the hell? CDIR Photography is a fickle mistress.