On the wall behind the tellers line at my bank, there are 3 very large, soft, dreamy pictures of flowers. When I first noticed them – probably 7 or 8 years ago – I wondered why the bank decorators would think of putting up pictures that were, for the most part, out of focus? After [...]
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A little bit softer now
Posted by Barbara on May 28, 2012
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The blue light special
The assignment was to post photos taken during the “blue hour” – the time just after sunset when the sky is not yet completely dark, when backgrounds turn out a nice, deep, gorgeous royal blue. The obvious local landmark for a blue hour photo is the university clock tower. Since it was so obvious – [...]
Posted by Barbara on May 19, 2012
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The backup plan
I had staked out a location for last night’s supermoon well in advance: a hilltop about 6 miles away from home, one of the highest locations in the county. I had studied the location in The Photographer’s Ephemeris; I had visited it the night before last to make sure all of my calculations were correct. [...]
Posted by Barbara on May 6, 2012
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Workflow
We had an overnight visitor this week, an old friend who happens to be a hobbyist photographer. One of the topics we chatted about was the choice of software for post processing – and specifically, he asked me: if you have Photoshop and Bridge, why do you need Lightroom? I told him that for me, [...]
Posted by Barbara on May 5, 2012
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Coast to coast, and back home again
In the 2 weeks since my last post, I’ve been traveling on vacation – first to the Gulf coast of Florida, where hubby and I visited my Dad for a few days, and then to southern California, where we visited hubby’s brother and sister-in-law. I don’t usually consider myself a beach person, but this trip [...]
Posted by Barbara on April 28, 2012
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Lesson learned
It’s time to tell the sad story of how my 1-month-old camera ended up in the shop last week. It was a painful experience, and it’s somewhat embarrassing as well, so I’m hoping that by sharing the story, at least one newbie will avoid the same mistakes I made. Last Saturday morning I got up [...]
Posted by Barbara on April 14, 2012
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Just add texture
A few days ago, my online friend Barb posted a dreamlike photo of trees in the fog. It was beautiful. I couldn’t think of any way the photo could have been displayed SOOC (straight out of camera) unless she had used a Lens Baby, so of course I asked how it was created… and she [...]
Posted by Barbara on April 8, 2012
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The high maintenance customer
(Note: the pictures in this blog post have nothing to do with the text. A family member once told me that “people” don’t actually read the text, they just look at the pictures… so I’m merely including these photos as eye candy.) I’ve been ordering things online since around 1992, when I made my first [...]
Posted by Barbara on March 31, 2012
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Hai High Key!
Capturing too much light Makes my photographs upbeat Too bright can be good Yes, apologies, that was a sorry excuse for a haiku – but “high-key” sounded just too much like haiku to not include it. I took a high-key photo by chance this afternoon, and as has happened before, it turned out to be [...]
Posted by Barbara on March 25, 2012
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Absolutely Abstract
It’s assignment submission time again! I have two sets of submissions for Scott’s “Abstract” assignment this month. First, two pictures of the “What the heck IS that” variety… each is an accurate depiction of the item that I photographed (can you guess? Answers are below.): Thing One: Thing Two: The second variety of abstract includes [...]
Posted by Barbara on March 19, 2012
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