I recently discovered a wonderful new Photoshop tool – the use of saturation masks. This is somewhat of an advanced tool – if you don’t use layers and masks in Photoshop (you should), this won’t make much sense, but I do believe many subscribers here may find it useful.Read More
This is a photo from last winter in the Chugach National Forest, Alaska.
Happy New Year!
Well, it is year end, and we are in that position of either spend it, or give it to Uncle Sam – so we are spending baby!
With today’s large image files, my old Pentium computer just isn’t cutting it anymore, so we made the logical decision to get Janine a new computer – yeah that’s right, Janine. Since she does all the important parts of the office work, it is fitting I get her computer hand me downs, and she gets the screaming machine. Actually, Janine does a lot of the image adjustment work.
Anyway, I have been anguishing over this decision for the last couple of weeks as I researched and read countless forums, reviews etc., so I thought I would share my thought process as it may be beneficial to other photographers in a similar situation – I know I found similar write-ups valuable. Janine thinks I’m an over-researcher 🙂 , and she is right. Warning, this may get long!Read More
Another photo of the frozen waterfall in Seward, Alaska.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
If you read the My Excuse post, you will know we have been working hard to remodel our home – new paint, carpet, blinds, etc. The hardest, but most rewarding part was the two weeks we spent on the kitchen. In stock cabinets, vinyl floor and Formica counters won’t get it showcased in Sunset Magazine, but it is sure a huge improvement for us!Read More
Frozen waterfall, Seward, Alaska.
I ran by this waterfall in town a few days ago and noticed it was starting to look pretty nice thanks to our recent cold spell, but then I forgot about it. I owe local truck driver Bob Valdatta a big thank you for giving me a call and heads up on the waterfall today. He said it looked as good as he had ever seen it, and he was right! There are so many cool photo possibilities right there.
By the way, we are forecasted to get at least a foot of snow thanks to an incoming storm. I hope they are right!
The snowy mountains of Mt. Alice from the home office last night, Chugach National Forest, Alaska.
A few people emailed after my mountain post earlier this week to ask if this was really the view from the house. I should point out, I am shooting these with my 100-400 at about 300, so that does tend to exaggerate the impact a bit – there is about 3 miles of ocean between us and the mountains, but otherwise that is the view. It is awesome to have a photo opportunity like this right out the door!
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