Path to Ra
I was exploring some new areas near my house this past weekend where they have created a new hiking / mountain bike trail through my woods. I don’t know where my mind was, but I was seeing shapes that were everything but what the real object was. And yet, I wasn’t under the influence of any mind altering substances! So in these images, I couldn’t let my imagination get away from the idea that these abstract macro’s resembled ancient Egypt depictions of a sun god.
ancient Sun god
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Infrared hillsides
This past weekend Scott Kelby did a quick Photoshop quick tips session at the Detroit Mac Group presentation. He managed to pack in quite a bit to an entertaining hour and a half. (If you keep an eye on the link above, the video of the session should be posted soon).
Although he wasn’t plugging Nik filters, he did mention he liked Color Efex for some of his landscapes. Since I had already tried Silver Efex and liked it, I thought I would give Color Efex a trial run. I liked the infrared preset for a few landscapes I was working on. Although this preset also appears in Sliver Efex, the one in Color Efex takes on a different look which I found more appealing. It took on the ethereal glow I was used to with actual infrared images.
I used to experiment quite a bit with actual infrared photography when I was using my D2H because it was particularly sensitive to that spectrum. I thought it was quite cool to be making photographs from no visible light. Filters over the later camera sensors tend to filter out most of infrared, making it much more difficult without a special dedicated camera that has been modified. Applying a filter after the fact for sure isn’t quite the same, in experience or results, but I liked the effect nonetheless.
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iPhone processing
I am sure everyone has heard the saying by now that the best camera is the one that you have with you at the moment you need it. Well, it seems these days that statement could be revised to include the best photo lab as well.
I have been having a great time exploring the photography apps available for the iPhone. It used to be that the iPhone’s camera was nothing special, and particularly horrible in low light. The iPhone 4 has a much improved camera, although still struggles in low light conditions. But what makes the iPhone’s camera so special isn’t so much the pixels or technology of the camera itself, but of the thousands of apps in Apple’s App Store that support it.
At the time of this posting, I believe there are over 2800 photography paid apps, and another 1500 or so free ones. So you can spend quite a bit of time on these things as well as some money. However, most of them are quite reasonably priced, most less than 5 bucks, many more only 0.99.
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