Daffodil

April 1, 2014April 1, 2014Leave a comment

Daffodill
Open in Photoshop. Auto contrast, auto color, auto tone–hey, that’s weird. The auto tone made the blossoms look great, but the background look blue. So, then I masked out the blossom and used the auto tone on that, but only used the auto contrast and auto color on the background, with just a hint of desaturation.

I love daffodils. They’re my favorite flower, even though generally I’m not a huge fan of yellow. But on daffodils, I make an exception. I’m usually disappointed in my attempts at daffodil photography (they never seem to want to face the camera the right way) but I think I like this shot. It looks cheerful, like a daffodil should. 🙂

Blackbirds

March 31, 2014March 31, 2014Leave a comment

I was playing with my big zoom lens a week or so ago and came up with these. Usually there are too many leaves to get pictures of the birds way up there, but it’s spring, so I got some halfway decent shots. And I finally have a camera that’ll let me crop a shot and still have a decent size to do something with it. Yay!

You can’t see it because these are low-res for-the-web versions, but there’s actually enough pixels to print if I wanted to. 🙂

Of course, blackbirds aren’t all that photogenic, but I did what I could from the ground. 🙂