The Response: Bold Abode — Cheryl Tonight’s Call involved a lot of wandering. I played around with in-camera techniques, then I played around with post processing techniques, finally settling on this image. It’s an ICM photo that gets its bold color treatment from a Lightroom preset I came up with a few months ago. It […]
The Response: Rosebud in November — Cheryl Even with snow on the ground, it looks like I’m in for more roses! : )
The Call: Look Closely — Cheryl If you’re not paying attention, you might miss the spider in the center of this flower. I almost did.
The Response: Lit from Below — Cheryl It was a sunny day, but I knew that there wasn’t quite enough sunlight for this shot — and I wanted to direct the light. That generally means using the flash on camera or off camera with an umbrella. There are times, though, when I just don’t feel […]
The Response: Rediscovered Masterpiece — Cheryl I recently re-read Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (but my first reading shouldn’t even count, as it was decades ago, and the book I read then was abridged — grrrrr). This time, I was blown away by how good it was. The novel was one of those books that gets […]
Cheryl The only thing nature has been giving us is snow, so I have to settle for purchased vegetation.
Cheryl Dennis always says, “There’s a reason February is the shortest month.” Sometimes you need flowers to get through it.
The Call: Roots of Style — Jessica I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I have a definite photographic style. Yet. I’m working on it. But I would attribute what I have to these three books. Every book Michael Freeman has written as been informative to me. But Perfect Exposure was so chock-full […]
The Call: Pouring Out the Pink — Cheryl Pink always attracts my attention: it’s been my favorite color forever. The only pink walls in the house are in Bridget’s room. I haven’t been able to sell Dennis on them anywhere else (but we have lots of blue and lots of purple). Therefore, I have to […]