B/W Oak Tree

My husband and I took a ride along Raymond Road in the Sierra foothills today.  I processed this photo of an oak tree in Photoshop Elements 6 by adjusting levels, cropping, burning and dodging, and a little cloning.   Font is LainieDay SH.   I love oak trees in winter. Camera settings: Canon EOS Rebel T1i, [...]

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Fall At Last

I also posted this on my Photoshop Elements Techniques board.  This is an oak leaf just turning some autumn colors.  Processed in Photoshop Elements with adjusted levels and burning. Camera settings: Canon EOS Rebel T1i, F/6.3, 1/160 sec., ISO 100, focal length 100 mm.  No flash.

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Oak Leaf

This kind of fit for Sharp, but I thought that was stretching things a bit!  This oak leaf on the ground was processed in Photoshop Elements 6 by adjusting levels, adding a high pass filter and burning.   Taken with the macro setting of my FinePix camera. Camera settings: Fujifilm FinePix S700, F/3.5, 1/75 sec., ISO [...]

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Winter Landscape

Took this a few weeks ago.  These two live oak trees are in the Sierra foothills.  I adjusted levels and ran the photo through Topaz Simplify Buz Sim.  I had been working on a custom texture and used it as an Overlay on this photo.   Using a photo I had of concrete, I added warm/cool [...]

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Drip

Fog gives me the chance to take droplet photos here in Central California.  This one is on a young oak tree branch.  It reflects the branch behind as well as our house and front lawn.  There is a tiny spiderweb that sits on the branch also.  For this treatment, I first rotated the photo 2 [...]

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Shadows and Light

Hi and welcome to “Shadows and Light”!  This is my blog about photography and participating in the 2010 Virtual Photowalk.  Startup will be Jan. 1, 2010!

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