We spent a few days in the Albuquerque – Santa Fe region of New Mexico this week, including Petroglyph National Monument and Kasha-Ketuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. Here are a few shots from both.
Category: Digital Photography
One of my photography clients is taking me up to Rocky Mountain National Park to shoot elk (with a camera, folks) next month. That’ll be so much fun!
I started a new photoblog today. I’m using the excellent PhotoQ plugin and the iQ2 theme for WordPress – it only shows one image at a time, very simple. I’m hoping it will reinforce my need to get out with the camera more often.
iQ2 is a nice theme – the author has the color schemes separated into different .css sheets under a ‘colors’ folder, so it’s very easy to make those style changes. PhotoQ lets you queue up a number of images, then publish them one at a time, all at once, or through a cronjob. I haven’t tried the cron yet, but will probably do that in a few weeks when I can upload a large set of images to the queue.
A friend who’d recently bought her first D-SLR came to our digital camera club meeting with her husband last night. At the break, she told me she was having serious issues with the whole ‘I can do anything with Photoshop’ mentality that’s so pervasive. She asked ‘what then makes a good photographer, if you can just fix your mistakes in Photoshop or add things that aren’t even there?’
That’s a good question. But my feeling was that it comes down to the intent of the photographer. If he or she is a photojournalist, creative license is not allowed, in my opinion. But if you’re doing it for fun or in your work as a practicing photographer, then you’re going to clean up and/or edit your images in a digital workflow that pretty closely imitates the chemical darkroom process that photographers have always used.
Here’s a quote I found that I really like:
“Ansel Adams post-processed his negatives in his darkroom to where the pictures weren’t necessarily reality as he had seen them, but the way he had visualized the photographs in his mind’s eye. It is very much the equivalent of today’s digital photographs, post-processed in a digital darkroom. If it was okay for him, it must be okay for me.”
One of my images from our May 2008 trip to Portland got picked by Schmap for the new version of their Portland guide. They found my photo on Flickr.
While in San Francisco last week we paid a visit to the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Last time we were there it was undergoing renovations, so this was our first visit. I got some very nice photos both of the flowers and the butterfly exhibit, here are a few highlights.
