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Glacial Erratics

"Grand Canyon of the East", the Genesee River flowing through Letchworth State Park, NY

Rye Harbor, NH

For me it is all about the final image and/or the print. Since I am not claiming my photos are the literal truth, so all is fair........

 

When viewing one of my prints I have been asked if I had "photoshopped" it. I try to nicely explain that I find it curious that

they are not interested in the camera model=, type of sensor, settings etc, or how and why I might have changed some tonal values.

 

To me, from the moment you capture a three dimensional image onto a two dimensional substrate.......its all "photoshopped" to one degree or another.

Mt. Herard, Great Sand Dunes NP

I have found that blue skies get shifted to violet when I upload them. I desaturate the blue sky a bit to compensate.

Meteorite (above the tower)

Common Raven, Sitting on the rim of the Grand Canyon, taking in the view, a Raven landed on an adjacent tree just beyond the minimum focusing distance of my 400mm lens. After about a dozen shots I just enjoyed watching the Raven preen. A quarter hour well spent!

A view from Island in the Sky/ Canyonlands NP

Yes the shooting..... what makes me take the camera out of the bag ...then more often than not somewhere in the process of shooting I get the "feel" a different idea than I had a the first depression of the shutter, it makes me go back and rethink the shoot.

 

Then more often than not I let the "image" sit in the camera/ computer before I process it. Some images take a while. days. weeks or even months to fully process, I fall "in and out of love" with them...heck I am still working of images from my trip last April!! The processing part takes a while! Then the print. Once the image is printed, I can move on to the next one (much more often than not; as i try to get the print right the first time.)

I have been running into problems trying to delete image files, I delete a file, it disappears for that day, but the next day it is back. I am on day three of repeatedly deleting the same file. Any suggestions?