Completely random photo

This is a photo I made of the underpass in City Park. This goes under Highway 97 right near the new Bridge here in Kelowna, British Columbia. I like the angle of the shot but I think it was over done. This one is all for fun.

The biggest influence on my work

I just wanted to post a link to Bruce Percy's website. Bruce's work is probably the biggest influence for my work at the moment. His work speaks to me and his podcasts literally speak to me as well. When I need some inspiration I watch one of his podcasts (I'm saving them for those days that I need them). I would love to go to one of his workshops. Maybe next year.

Bruce Percy

Lac Du Bois Provincial Park

I visited this great park at the end of my weekend trip to Kamloops two weekend's ago. The light was really terrible but I can't really complain as the day before was awesome for me all day. This was around mid day and it was completely overcast. I knew the photo's wouldn't have great light but I really enjoy these types and trees and thought I would do something with Sepia or B&W. I was also concerned with how much was going on with these photo's (lots of small trees together). I really only liked these two photo's and I am not overly happy with them. I really went up in the park to check things out... was hoping to spot some Big Horned Sheep but I didn't see any of those... next time right. I least I know somethings about the park and below the boundaries. Found a few lakes that might be good to photograph in the morning or evening.

Playing in Photoshop again...

These first two are fairly heavily processed photos. I got the effect I was looking for more in the second one as it didn't have the rock. I did want to see what I could do with the rock; think I masked out that rock to some extent but I didn't fully get to where I wanted to with that one.






The last four are all very similar and in some cases the same photo processing in a different way. I liked what I saw when I pushed these photo's. Most of this is done with the "Blacks" and "Fill-light" sliders in LR2. I got the different color effects with different white balance settings all pretty simple. I think I like the one closest to the original (the last one) best. These were all taken just under a bridge on the local creek. Mission Creek it's called... a great place to get away for awhile.

Playing in Photoshop

So here are three photo's I was playing with. They is nothing spectacular about them but I like the effect some different blurring and blend modes have on them. I would tell you exactly what I did but to be honest I've forgotten... should have created an action at the time. I know it invovles an "overlay" blend mode at any rate. The last photo is not so "Shopped" but is more a comparison shot for the second photo. The last one is warmed up something fierce.