It's been unusually cold here
on the Outer Banks..
Near freezing and below
for the past 3 weeks.
Doesn't happen much,
but when it does,
Nature makes you stand up
and pay attention.
It affords a unique opportunity
for photographers
to get out there and brave the elements
and get some of those rare pictures.
Rosie, Ticky, and I
went to the Nags Head Causeway
(the stretch between Nags Head and Manteo,
right before the bridge)
to take pictures of windswept ice sculptures.
Ticky's high school friend, Russ,
had already been there
and reported about it
on his blog,
Russ' Outer Banks Journal.
I'd traversed the causeway between home and Manteo
several times during the past weeks.
I saw all the photo ops there.
But I was unable to stop.
I was on another mission.
Finally I was able to stop with Ticky
this past Sunday.
Thanks, Ticks.
Here are our three perceptions of the same phenomena:
Rosie
Ticky
Russ
Please compare and contrast.
Lovely photos, Ticks and Russ.
Now, for a digital photography lesson.
This is the original picture I took.
It's Ticky,
shooting pictures of the partly frozen sound.
I was freakin' freeeezin'.
I had been assaulted
by damn near every element
I could think of.
I finally retreated from the frozen barren scape,
head bowed,
and shot this photo
from the confines and semi-coziness
of Ticky's Subaru.
(My window is opened
on the North East.
Not a good thing.)
And THEEEENNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
She has the AUDACITY
to post this ???
Yup.
That's me.
In the setting sun.
Right across from Jockey's Ridge.
In the warmth of the Subaru.
Not tromping across dunes
to take a freakin' picture
of a long lost castle.
And I believe I am smiling.
Here's Kathy's Kastle.
Yep.
She left me in the warmth of her car
while she took off into the dunes
across 4 - 5 lanes of highways
to get there.
It was not at all appealing to me
to mount Jockey's Ridge.
I was still trying to thaw out
from our afternoon on South Nags Head Beaches
and the Causeway.
Now for the digital photography lesson:
Let me introduce you to Picasa.
It's Google's free software you can download,
so you can edit your digital photographs.
And it's great fun.
You can actually sharpen your pictures.
You can adjust contrast.
You can turn your color pictures into black and white.
You can take out red-eye.
You can tint.
You can tweak your photographs
however way you want.
Want sepia?
Got it.
And you can crop your pictures.
In the original photograph of Ticky, above,
I didn't like the chain fence on the bottom left.
No problem.
Same photograph.
Cropped:
Thursday, January 14, 2010
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I like the one that doesn't make my ass look big.
ReplyDeleteI think Ticky looks good. What's she talkin' about?
ReplyDeleteIt finally got above freezing here the past two days. Darn global warming!