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 ©2006 Ed Book camera motion––not a Photoshop effect. Peace Tags: -print available-, abstract, autumn, digital painting, forest, green, mount rainier, rain, trees, wa, yellow
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Anderson Landing Preserve - Kitsap Peninsula/Hood Canal/Puget Sound -Washington ©2006 Ed Book On the way home from an appointment in town, I stopped by Anderson Landing Preserve to walk a little and scout for some compositions carrying the Pentax S40 in my pocket vice the Canon system and pack...
While concentrating on making an image, a gentle voice startled me, I hadn't seen or heard someone approach. It was a nice lady who lives nearby out also for an evening walk and gliding along the trail, she didn't want to startle me.
I introduced myself and asked if I might include her in an image of the trail. I told her that I'd send her a photo if she found me via google or whatever 'didn't have a card or model release in my pocket like I do in the pack that I wasn't carrying... here she is continuing her walk...
Peace Tags: -print available-, abstract, digital manipulation, digital painting, forest, green, kitsap peninsula, landscape, trail, trees
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 'on keeping with no snow posting today... I made this photograph almost 27 years ago about five miles from here at Seabeck Bay. A fishing boat had been purposely run aground so the bottom could be scraped free of barnacles and other clingy stuff... I happened along that morning after a long and hyper night shift at the shipyard doing some very noisy and high energy steam safety valve testing on one of the nuc ships. I was too wired to go to sleep so took a drive to make some photographs. I found this scene when I was walking along the water's edge and was particularly drawn to the reddish color in the Red Alder forest... the catkins were forming as they do mid-winter every year... an early harbinger of spring. I should mention that this image was made with a Bronica S2A medium format camera with some unremembered print film. A printed version was displayed on the wall for many years and then thinking it beyond it's photograph life from fading, I removed it... later to scan on a flatbed scanner to revive the image by using it as the basis for a digital watercolor painting. Of course, it looks totally different in full size on paper... here the colors look blocky and blotchy...some things that display well on paper don't see justice in small compressed jpgs... Peace Tags: -print available-, about me, digital manipulation, digital painting, forest, kitsap peninsula, landscape, nautical, puget sound, trees, waterflow, winter
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Two years ago, we went to Colorado for autumn photography and one morning when we woke in our van on Grand Mesa, we were greeted by snow and bugling elk. I made photographs throughout the morning along the Curicanti Canyon as the snow melted and then we found the elk that were serenading us. They were across the valley and too far to photograph but we watched a while through binoculars. One particularly large bull was making most of noise and was expending a lot of energy keeping his harem in line. Other lesser bulls along the fringes of the meadow kept his attention and he kept charging them to find when he returned to his harem some had wandered off. He rounded them up and others would stray. All the time, he would keep up his bellowing and charging the other males. The canyon between us and them was steep-sided so we couldn't approach them to get into my 400mm lens range. Adding a teleconverter gave better magnifiction but cut the light level too much for decent shutter speeds. I would have loved to have had a fast 800mm lens right about then. I had to settle with images of aspen. This is one I made with the Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera that I just found while looking for another image on a backup CD. I haven't scanned many of the film images because I am way behind in my editing and scanning... I need a staff... I need to make enough $$ to hire a staff... I need a generous patron... The image was marginal in it's original form so I did some levels adjustments, simplifying, finding edges, painting, and layers blending, and cloning out distractions (the road on the hillside across the valley) to get this result.  Peace Tags: -print available-, autumn, colorado, digital painting, forest, phot expd, trees
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This image I posted before - it's one that I said was simplified and other stuff. As an explanation to what I do when manipulating an image, I posted the second image below to show a full size section of this image that was reduced in size and jpg compressed. You see that there is a big difference in perception when viewed in different sizes... some images are done an injustice when resized and compressed. 
 The painterly effects that I used on this image include simplifying detail, finding edges, embossing, adding texture layers and blending layers as well as other magic. experiment experiment experiment I printed this image large with pigment inks on watercolor paper. Tags: -print available-, autumn, digital manipulations, digital painting, forest, intimate landscape, mount rainier, mountains
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 The Anemone which has a large white flower in spring and very beautiful at that stage changes drastically when the seeds are ready to spread,,, It's also known as "mouse on a stick", "old man of the mountains" and a few other descriptive names. The background here is a heather. Camera: Nikon F4, Lens: 35-135mm with Nikon 5T aux close-up lens, Polarizer, Film: Ektachrome E100SW Tags: digital manipulations, digital painting, flowers, mount rainier, trail
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 Paradise in the fog - I hiked up from the paradise trailhead into the fog making photographs as I went till darkness turned me back. After this image, it was too dark to make any more and keep good color... as it was, this was a long exposure but unrecorded... Camera: Nikon F4, lens: 70-300mm, Polarizer ( to reduce shine on the wet surfaces) Film: Ektachrome E100VS Tags: -print available-, digital painting, flowers, forest, intimate landscape, mount rainier, mountains
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 heavy photoshop paint job increasing contrast and reducing detail... origional phot was 35mm Camera: Nikon F4, lens, 70-300mm, Polarizer, Film, Ektachrome E100SW Tags: abstract, autumn, digital manipulations, digital painting, forest, intimate landscape, mountains, trees
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