Loading...Images from the Id – Ok so I bought it
I’ve been watching to much TV lately. I know it’s my choice and I am actualyl spending less time in front of the flat screen. We used to call it “The Tube”. Come to think about that might have been confusing to a resident of London. All of this mostly brainless excuse for communicating had one thing in common, Advertising. I have gotten a little tired the three point approach of selling me something I don’t want, something I don’t need and something I can’t afford. I think I have just opened Pandora’s Box (not the music streaming but related). Of all of the ideals, its seems we have become greed driven. It is the basis of our economy and an increasing number of individual approach to life with that motivation. Humans are herd carnivores, we do what everyone else does one way or another. We devour everything in our path from hamburgers to natural resources. It has nothing to do with what is right or wrong just consume, consume, consume. Advertising has help destroy our health and personal budgets. Credit has become ridiculous to supply the feeding frenzy. I can be just as bad. Nikon has a new camera only $6k, gee I could carpet the house for that but well…it’s a new camera…gee I have plenty on Visa. Drool. Drool. Pant. Pant. That D4s is sooo cool. That D4s does soooo much. I could… To keep it short I didn’t buy the camera because it flunk two of the three tenets of advertising, something I don’t need and something I can’t afford. There is something you should buy; Adobe Creative Cloud for Photographer at $9.99 per month IT IS A EXCEPTIONAL DEAL. but the special price ends soon. Buy on brethren. Does that sound like George Carlin
“The Wall” The titlephoto is a study of textures and patterns. It was taken at The Castillo de Marcos in Saint Augustine Florida.1/45 sec, EV no override, ISO 100,f 9.5, 29/43 mm, The Nikon D5100 was used to get a lower perspective. In this image processing and cropping in Lightroom 5.3 were quite significant because elf the strange perspective and angles of the bricks. Lightroom 5.3 has an automatic perspective correction and in THIS case it worked well. It is fun to work with because sometimes you get strange results. As with all RAW imaging sharpening and color are very important.
“The Wall – Monochrome” this is the same image file but converted to black and white using Nik’s Silver Effects Pro 2, the most used for B&W conversation. A yellow filter was applied to bring out the warmer colors and darken the cooler. It is very important to use a good color file to get a good B&W.
