Tuesday Yellow Tulips

It's too cold to be outside shooting today, so I picked up some yellow tulips at the grocery. I needed a splash of color today.  I edited these with the newest Classic Workflow actions from Florabella.  I have only had a day to play with these actions and I can tell I will have so...

March Tulips

I couldn't resist photographing these lovely Spring Tulips.  I am so ready for Spring after this arduous Winter we have had.   I edited this image with my normal textures and actions, however, I wanted to try a tighter crop to focus more on the Tulips.  I really like the result and the square size....

Spring is Coming!

I picked up this lovely green Hydrangea bloom at the grocery today.  I need a bit of Spring in my world today.  Nature is starting to come back to life slowly here in Kansas.  Soon my Tulips and Daffodils will pop up and I will be snapping photos like a mad woman. Until then this...

Rain Drop Tulips 108/365 Project

I stepped outside between down pours and captured this rain splattered tulip.  It was so wet it was sagging almost to the ground.  Not much editing to this image.  I just tweaked the curves a bit to bump the contrast, ran a sharpening filter & added a very subtle texture .  I decided it was...

Tulip Garden

Cloudy days are perfect for taking photos.  The colors are so rich and not bleached out from the sun.   I ran the Vintage Wine action & added the Jubilee texture on this image which are both from Ms. Florabella.  Using  a layer mask I took  the texture off the orange tulip so it would...

Multi Colored Tulip 100/365 Project

I spent last evening watching my favorite shows, Lost, Glee & Justified, and tweaking the settings on my Nikon d80. I have had the camera for a couple of years and never really knew there were so many settings you could change. I looked around the internet and found a pdf from Ken Rockwell that...

Purple Tulip 96/365 Project

This image is for my good friend Debi D. who is my biggest fan and my very good friend.  She loves the color purple so here's to her. Thanks for being a great friend 🙂 T

Pink Tulips 94/365 Project

As promised the pink tulips have bloomed.  I calibrated my monitor yesterday and it has made a huge difference in my editing process.  My images need far less adjustment to get the effects I want.  I have also switched my camera to a finer jpeg setting which gives me more digital information.  It's amazing what...

Spring Red Tulip 92/365 Project

My first tulip has bloomed!  I used a new free action from MCP actions to add the texture to this image.  Although I can add the textures manually, I feel like this action shortens my editing by a few steps.  I wanted the red to pop so I used a layer mask to erase some...

Tulip Buds 91/365 Project

My tulips have sprung up and are ready to bloom.  The anticipation is killing me!  I took this with my Sony Cybershot H3 because it was the closest camera to the front door.  Yes, I am that lazy.  Edited in Photoshop with the pink fade action from Nelly Nero and the hazelnut texture from florabella....

Poladroid

Okay so I found another tool for making fake polaroids. This one is quite cool. It is a photo of a Polaroid camera that opens on your desktop. Poladroid! You drag the photo onto the photo sticking out of the camera and, here's the kicker, it slowly develops just like a Polaroid! You can even...

Green Diptych 84/365

Green Diptych 84/365, originally uploaded by Gallery32/Chocolata. I took the photo on the right today and played around with the in camera settings on my Sony H3 to exclude color. I thought it was aceeptable on it's own, however, paired with the green sprig it has something to realate to. And that makes the images...