I don’t know what it is about the beach, or why it’s so fascinating, but it seems as if everyone enjoys taking photographs there. Well, since I was near the beach, I figured I couldn’t resist. The funny looks people gave me while I was just sitting there in the sand made me wish I had a camera in the back of my head though.
Another picture taken at UIC’s campus. It was so tempting to put various things on the tack board during post processing.
This is the first photo that I’ve processed with the Velvia Vision Photoshop plugin. I was actually contemplating purchasing it awhile ago, but never actually did. However, after spending way too much time processing some of my shots, and them not coming out as punchy as I wanted, I decided to go for it. I also purchased the Web Presenter Pro plugin at the same time. It will be interesting to see how these help my post processing.
Oh, and I’m sorry about yesterday’s outage. I did some upgrades on the backend over the weekend and some unexpected things happened. Thankfully I at least know why, stupid ISA 2006.
This is actually taken at the same fountain as yesterdays, however it is from a different area. What really suprised me about these photographs wasn’t really taking them, but processing them. It was a bear to get them to a shrink down into a jpeg small enough for my measly hosting services. The pure randomness of the water really causes havoc with the Photoshop CS2 jpeg compression algorithm. This one wasn’t even the worst one either. There was going to be a Water 3 in this series, but I couldn’t get it to compress to something I would feel comfortable uploading to the site.
Took this about a month ago on one of my walks through the city. Today I actually walked by the same place with my Dad. However, they have since turned off the fountain. It’s a shame really, because that means it’s getting close to winter, and I’m not much looking forward to that.
You may have also noticed that I’ve updated my wants section on the archives page. If you’re feeling very generous you can check out my Amazon Wishlist, as basically all of those things are listed there. But what I really meant to ask is if anyone knows of a good bag for adventure photography. I go climbing, hiking, etc, and I’d like to be able to bring my camera a long with a few lenses. However, whenever I go climbing, I already have a fairly large pack on, so it needs to be something that is like a sling, like the Lowepro SlingShot 200 AW, or can easily be accomidated in the front. Plus, I really need a pack that I can house all my photography stuff in, as my current pack, the Lowepro TLZ1 can only carry one lens and the body. Thoughts?
This is definitely not one of the better images I’ve put up here, but I couldn’t help it simply because of the subject matter. This tree was simply magnificent and every time I walked by it I instantly thought of The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. There were actually two of them touching each other, which is why it’s not a very well framed shot. Oh yeah, and this was taken on my recent trip to Tampa/St. Petersburg last week.
Well, this is the first weekend picture I’ve posted (a little late though). I think I’m going to save the weekend pictures for more “fun” items such as this. Other than that, I don’t really have much to talk about. As I mentioned a few days ago, I received my new lens, so you should start to see some of those images popping up, and I’ve updated the buy and about areas. For some reason I can’t get the email links to actually show up as links on those two pages though for Internet Explorer. Weird.
I have no idea why these placards were sitting on UIC’s campus, but I couldn’t resist. I’m sure there’s some interesting back story to these because as I was taking the picture there were many people in the building next to them staring at me. It’s funny how regardless of what you’re taking a picture of, people have a tendency to stare at me. Do I look like a tourist or is it because I’m taking pictures of things they wouldn’t normally consider taking a picture of?
Regardless, I wish there was more I could’ve done with these two images. I like that they’re in their native location, but a part of me wishes I had done something better with the composition.
I definitely love bringing out the textures. I can’t wait to use the 105mm macro lens. I wonder how much different my shots will start being because of it.