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a good picture and a better story.  glad jay got out for a bit.

this is one of  those documentary style shots that captures the moment.  you nailed the exposure.  the pose/expression is natural and interesting, so you captured the right moment.  i prefer the color shot, but the your original b&w crop.

it was actually the hue/sat layer that removed the color.  the levels just brightened up the midtones a little bit.

if you have auto iso then you can set your shutter speed and aperture with some logical settings and let the camera adjust the iso for the exposure.

but it doesn’t matter what settings the camera picked in the exposure, the colors are separate.  however, this is underexposed a little and underexposing skin tones can add to the color.

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very nice website/portfolio!  see if you have a local art league or a local artisans store like what i sell in.  some stores require a monthly volunteer day, luckily mine doesn’t.  these types of stores seem to be popping up more and more around the country.  i’ve even found a chain of artisan stores called the painted tree boutique.

the only icelandic horses i saw were domesticated.  there’s wild ponies around assateague in maryland, but they also round them up every year and sell them off to thin the herds.  there’s also a few herds out west, but the only ones i’ve encountered were in teddy roosevelt and they were a ways off.

the name of the flower is oxeye or false sunflower, often confused with the black eyed susan, which is a different flower.

i’m not sure it’s worth the time to setup for the handful of inquiries outside of the shop that i get a year.  it’s hard to tell how many of them originate outside of the shop.  i’d rather keep the product the same for all customers.

that one guy has quite a bit of red on him.  great photos.

lovely view of the marsh.  and on a nice, cloudy day, too.  i’ve seen the egrets pile onto a single tree along the woods in our local wildlife refuge like that.

hopefully everyone got out safe.

any smoke jumpers going in?  we have a lady who works in my building who’s on the state team.  she’s gone west more than a few times.  they didn’t deploy yet this year and when they go, they usually get orders by june.

very nice lighting!

that’s why i went with digital.  going off to college and realizing that i was leaving all of my books behind.

@patrickw-2 i name my folders by year and month.  so 202409 for this month.  that keeps everything in chronological order instead of all of the months jamming up together or january being followed by october.  i might put a few descriptors behind it like toys, vacation, or wildlife so i know what’s in that folder.

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@admin-2 shipping out is a pain.  you have to purchase the packing materials and boxes (if you buy at the ups store it’s insanely expensive) for 18×14 – 30×40″ framed prints.  it’s affordable if you buy in bulk, but i don’t ship out enough to justify that.  then i need to find time to box it up on top of a 1 hour commute and a shift that lasts an…[Read more]

that sucks @elax.  hope things are on the mend.  guess if you can’t take photos right now, that’s more time to read for you.

come on, there’s a spare seat.  or maybe rob can make this a community thing and we’ll charter a bus.

@elax i’m throwing all animals under the wildlife section just to keep things simple.

@patrickw-2 i get what you’re saying.  it’s hard to find the gem you shot months ago in a folder full of filenames.  especially if you didn’t edit when you shot it.  every few years i’ll plug a harddrive into lightroom and load everything.  gives me a good ide…[Read more]

i do, but not really online.  i’ve sold in a physical store for almost a decade now.  think antique style store where vendors have their own space and pay rent and commission but there’s only one register.  i sell large photos (18×24, 24×36 and 30×40″ prints) and other items like cards, home decor items and stuffed animals out of a vintage wash tu…[Read more]

sounds good elin.  added to my list.

thanks rob. the background is mostly just blurred background with a sparks overlay.  the green at the bottom is blurred grass, the blue is atmosphere aerosol picking up the blue light on the figure, the top right is probably trees around sunset.  or maybe my jeep, since i shot it near the driveway.

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