An Appology

I feel like I've been getting really lazy with my photography lately and I want to apologize. I'm going to try to find more time and get outside my own back yard for inspiration and subjects. No picture today. I slept through most of the day with this stupid bout of bronchitis. I hope to bring you some quality photos soon.

Silos

I have begun to start working on "punching up" my pictures in Photoshop. I'm working on upping the saturation levels and using the curves tool. On this photo, I also used the clone tool to take out a spot that had been on the lens (I didn't notice it until I loaded the picture on the computer and it only showed up in these pictures because of the sky).

Silos

Green Glow

I am working on my night shoots. I really need to find the time to look through some tutorials, but for now I am just winging it and seeing what happens.

I really like the color in this shot, and that's why I chose to post it. This tree is lit by a mercury light that lights the yard. I liked how the longer exposure gives the tree a green glow. This is not the best picture. I used the timer for the longer exposures because I still can't find the remote. There is still some blur, but I think that has more to do with how windy it was outside.

Green Glow

Larger Picture Size

Due to the traffic coming from Our Blogger Templates, I have decided to add a few pictures to this post so that people coming strait to this post can see my work as well as an example of the larger picture size that I use on my photoblog. Please feel free to look around, and don't forget to stop back by! I have also added a new post on exactly what I've done to adjust for these larger sizes. You can see that here.

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I have finally found a relatively easy way to upload larger pictures. This one only has a few steps instead of five steps like most tutorials. I hope you like the new format. I am not planning on changing all old posts, but will be posting larger photos from now on.

Here is the link to Our Blogger Templates where I found the tutorial... just in case you need it.

A New Idea...A New Blog

I am setting up a new challenge for myself. I have decided to work on my photography skills by creating a photoblog. I thought about posting photos on my main blog site, Living Single in Small Town America. However, I decided that I wouldn't feel compelled to post as often, or to work on the quality of my photos. I use to be a photographer, not professional, but I took classes in college and loved to take artistic shots. Since the age of digital photography, I have quit working on the artistic for the most part. Of course, a huge stumbling block to my artistic side came in the form of my niece and nephews. I love taking pictures of them and they are great subjects; I even manage to get some artistic shots of them.

Now I am going to challenge myself to take pictures everyday and post at least one of those shots. Someone I know posted a photo everyday for a thousand days...I'm not sure I am up to that task, however, I would like to get in 4 or 5 photos a week. Sometimes I might even post an old photo; I have several that I would like to share, but I will always let you know that it is an old photograph.

I hope that my talents will improve as time goes on, and that you will keep coming back for more.