Upde Designs

Nikon D300s | Tamrom 18-270 mm lens | ISO 200 1/200 sec @ f6.0

The images I’m posting today are images that I’ve taken in the last couple of weeks that were “throw away” images in my mind.  But I take on-line courses in Photoshop so as I try new techniques I practice on my own images and some of the techniques I’ve learned have helped enhance an otherwise throw away image.

I call the image above “Road to Nowhere.”  I was taking some sunset images of the church and I liked the clouds and nice color in the sky with the road disappearing to nowhere.  But in the RAW format it was really not much of an image.  After trying a couple of different techniques on it I kind of like it now.  You will have to judge for yourself.

Nikon D300s | Tamrom 18-270 mm lens | ISO 200 1/320 sec @ f10

Here is another image that the way it was captured did not appeal to me at all.  In fact I was very close to deleting it from my hard drive.  But after cropping the image and darkening the foreground… well again you have to be the judge.  I kind of liked it.  Perspective in photography (as in life) can make all the difference in an image.  Uncropped it just wasn’t interesting but once I cropped it the sun became the dominate  feature of the image and then it was more interesting.

Nikon D300s | Tamrom 18-270 mm lens | ISO 200 1/30 sec @f 4.5

Finally this image.  Honestly even after I worked with it I still don’t like it.  I remember framing it in the view finder thinking I really like the pattern of the hills and the combination of snow and bare ground but I was worried about the exposure because the light was so low.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but even my eye does not think these are beautiful images.  I worked awhile on them however so I thought I would post them for your amusement.  🙂

Have a great Tuesday.  Be careful out there since our old friend Winter has decided to stick around a little longer.  Thank you for stopping by.