Pitt River Revisited

I finally got around to figuring out the latest Photoshop High Dynamic Range tool. If you have a tripod, and the time to take two or more photos of the same scene, you can get greater control of your depth of field and exposure.

October Sky, Vancouver

More hand-tinting (well, hand and mouse) but with broad strokes this time. I have a complicated (as complicated as I get anyway) relationship with nostalgia. When I figure it out I will tell you about it. One of my favorite bands in the 1970's was Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks. I can relate to his anachronistic stance. And his music gets to me. The photo was taken with my Panasonic point & shoot.

Forest Near Jericho Beach

When I was growing up on the prairies in the 50's and 60's there were always photos and postcards around that were hand-coloured or hand-tinted. I liked the effect, even when it was a kitschy travel photo-card from some obscure tourist spot. Maybe especially if it was a kitschy photo-card. I had just started acquiring the coloured pencils and spray-can lacquer to hand-colour photographs when I went digital and now I do it with Photoshop.

Colouringbooks were one of my favorite indoor childhood pastimes. Individually painting in the leaves in a forest shot is a good way for an insomniac photographer to spend the late-night hours.

Terra Nova

A good photograph is one that represents the spirit of the subject, whether that subject is a person, place or event. A great photograph represents the spirit of the photographer as well. I will continue honing my skills to try and create the kind of photographs I imagine, while still leaving room for the unexpected. It was a fine morning in one of my favorite places. That alone was worth the trip.

Pitt River

I am in upgrade limbo, not being able to fully grasp the changes and do the things I took for granted working with cs2. If anyone wants to give me some tutorials in working with layers in Photoshop cs4, I would be eternally grateful. Meanwhile, I can still do some things.