Fae's Ladder

Autumn Alfalfa

Taken on one of those perfect fall days.

Can you smell the leaves?

What We Find

Not feeling particularly verbose this morning, so...Bonus photo!

Forest of Light

I almost deleted this one. I took it before thinking to readjust my exposure settings so things wouldn't be quite as overexposed. Then when I got home and looked through all the photos I'd taken (all 1000+ of them...), I liked this one so much more than the properly exposed versions. I just love the presence of light in it.

Not deleting photos "on scene" is actually a rule in digital photography, and this is precisely why. Until you can see it on a screen bigger than two thumbs put together, you just don't know. (Truth be told, I do still delete photos on scene, but only when something thoroughly disastrous occurred, such as it being obviously blurry or obviously ruined in another way. I probably shouldn't, but I do just for that extra bit of card space.)

Down by the Creekside

One of the new features on my (finally) updated photoshop elements is the ability to merge photos. You can merge two photos in terms of matching their tonal quality, colors, exposure, contrast, etc. Or you can merge photos by way of stitching them together to make panoramas, which I think is beyond awesome, mostly because it takes something that can be done digitally by hand in ~2 hours? and condense it into a simple one-minute, two mouse-click operation. It even corrects lens/angle distortion and, if desired, attempts to fill in any gaps around the edges so you don't have to crop it down a whole lot.

I haven't experimented with the color match aspect yet, but I have made a few panoramas. I'd taken some shots up north with the idea to display them side-by-side, like in those three-photo horizontal (or vertical) frames. Instead, I processed them in Lightroom and then stitched them together in PSE.

I was *really* excited about posting them online.

Except everywhere I upload them automatically down-sizes them because they're so wide. I don't know what to do about it, either. I spent most of a whole day trying to get it to cooperate, and I have nothing to show for it. Well, that's not entirely true...

See? It's frustratingly tiny.  =(  It is marginally bigger at its source url, but not a whole lot. I'm still trying to figure something out, though.


I got it to work (for the most part) over at DeviantArt. You'll just have to view it there. ;)

Until then I will simply post non-panoramic things. ;)

Ebb

Hello fellow readers! Remember me? I wouldn't expect you to, to be honest. Yes, I've been away for a rather long time. I didn't really even keep up with my reading list, and for that I am doubly sorry.

The ol' family desktop died on us at the end of December, but I was lucky enough to get a new machine. A very fast, gorgeous one that has yet to leave me anything other than amazed.

I'm finally getting back into the swing of working with my photos, and I must say, it's much more rewarding now that I don't have to wait for some aspect of the program to load every minute and a half. I also bought a new version of Photoshop Elements, which has me highly amused right now as well. (Forthcoming post on that tomorrow.)

In short, I'm back. With "new" photos to post, even.

The creek in the North Woods. I desaturated most colors except for blues, purples, and magentas so I could really bring out this tone. A little extra black clipping and punch, a touch of extra highlights and I love its strength.

I hope everyone had an excellent holiday season, and the new year has treated you well thus far!