Friday, December 29, 2006

new years eve ~ eve

picture this...
my new fong "chrome dome"
that i got from kiki for Christmas....
she'd been lurking around this blog
and saw that i was interested in
getting one so...BAM!!!!
i got the "cloud" from kiki and the
"chrome dome" from owen!
"thanks guys!"
i'm enjoying playing with it a lot!
it's going to be perfect for my product
shots i'm doing!



my kubota dvd came yesterday.
i purchased the down load the other
day and had them ship a hard copy as well.
pretty cool. it's the "much anticipated"
3rd version of his actions...i'm getting to know them
better..here's a cool, mystical one called "deep forrest"~
a square, cropped image of the original below...



and here's the original image, shot by a client of
mine (chris) on a very recent trip to paris.
i had her e-mail me some of her shots from her trip!



fun, don't cha think!
thanks kevin kubota for all your fun actions!!
i highly recommend getting them!

here's another image where i used kevin's
"digital fill flash" on the bronze statue to
bring out the detail that chris had underexposed.
another favorite action of mine!!!
(this action is from his 2nd set of actions
which also contains "starburst vignette" which i
absolutely LOVE!!)



chris was here the other day so i gave her some
lessons and insight to capturing images, composition,
cropping, timing (waiting for folks to move!)
focusing techniques...it was fun.
these are a couple of other images that we worked on..
here, we worked on straightening the horizon...




this one needed cropping and some sharpening...



thanks for sharing your paris images with me chris!
i may never get there! who knows.
hope i was able to assist you in your new quest
to get a different camera! :)
careful...you might get hooked on photography!

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