I’ve been a bit lazy this last week… I did some images of pancakes – this is a tradition on Shrove Tuesday in the UK, but it was this past week in the US: Then I found some old images of plants that have been planted at the National Arboretum in Washington DC that are used for power related processing – oil, diesel, ethanol etc. I spent some time editing and then keywording them with their correct botanic and latin...
Keeping up with the New Year’s Resolution by posting yet another set of images taken in the past week. I’ve focused on macro and still life type images this week: The first one is a simple image of nail trimmers or cutters and the finger nails themselves on the edge of a sink. I had kept the nail clippings for a while until I had time to take the image! Shot 2 is one of a series of macro shots...
This short article covers a photographic isolation – setting your subject against a pure white background to make it easy to change the background or add the subject to a different composition. It is similar to blue (or green) screening but is sometimes easier to achieve without any specially colored backgrounds or cloths. A typical picture isolated against white would look like this: And after a little bit of Photoshop work, the background can be removed and replaced by a...
I have around 200 images from my Kauai trip that are now online (although a lot of them without the critical keyword “Kauai” as a result of the Lightroom keyword export bug explored in this post!), and so rather than keep posting ones from that trip, here are some new images taken this week. The first is an image of our poor bengal cat, who had an operation to remove a cyst last week. As a result, she had to...
Alamy is one of the sites I upload to, and I’ve been bemused for a time when I’m adding some main keywords that major keywords seem to be missing. My recent trip to Kauai brought this home as the keyword “kauai” was missing on the uploaded files. At first I thought I had forgotten to add it, but it was there in Lightroom, as “Kauai”. At first, I thought this was the reason, but no, there is a deeper reason....
Much of the past week has been occupied with processing my images from Hawaii. All told, I have around 1500, but 250 of those were the timelapse movie images that I discussed a few days ago. Amazing how long it takes to review and then process all those images as I always work in Raw and so some amount of exposure/clarity is required on all the images. At the end of the day, I ended up with about 220 keepers,...
As mentioned in a previous post, I’m still working through my 1400 images from a recent trip to Oahu and Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. One of my experiments this time was a timelapse movie that I will upload to a few stock video sites. The steps are not that complex if you haven’t done this before: Set your camera up on a tripod and carefully frame and level the shot Set the quality to Jpeg and, if you can,...
A new year starts in a pretty reasonable fashion with total earnings of around $1150. It isn’t just good enough to keep me on track for my 2012 target of $18000, but there are still plenty of months and plenty of images to upload between now and the end of the year! I added around 100 images this month to most of the stock agencies, although I am still going through the hundreds of photos taken on my recent trip...
Well, my new year resolution to post every week got forgotten last week! But I did have an excuse – I had to go to a conference in Hawaii and tacked a week’s working vacation (taking photographs) in Kauai onto the trip. Over 1400 images later, I am struggling to go through and edit the ones that I think have potential as stock images. I also had my first attempt at a time lapse movie during the week, taking a...
I’m keeping up with my resolution to take and post new images every week! This first one was a real joy to produce. I saw a video on PhotographyTalk forum which showed how to get a shot of wine flowing from a bottle. His example was one where the wine appeared to shoot straight up out of the bottle, but I thought I would try something a bit harder – make the wine go into a glass! The idea is...
