Camera’s View

While visiting Northern Oregon and Washington State last month, I was able to capture several lighthouses along the way.
Lewis and Clark may have been disappointed, but we were not. Despite the rumors, the weather during the time we were in Oregon was perfect.
Across the Columbia river from Astoria is Cape Disappointment, Washington.
In 1788 an English [...]

The color of water in Crater lake ( Crater Lake NP ) is hard to describe in words and taking a picture at high noon doesn’t make it any easier to capture the way it really felt in person.
I have been following various blog writings about the advantages of HDR Imaging. One of the possible [...]

In the previous post I referenced a preset created for draining all colors except red.
It’s actually easier than you might think.
Here are two images of butterflies where I drained out most of the color.

Technique
In the Lightroom Develop module -

Perform your desired tonal adjustments
In the HSL/Color/Grey scale panel, select Color
Drop all the saturation levels to zero [...]

Adobe Systems has released Adobe Lightroom 2.0 public beta at Adobe labs.
This is a significant update and includes many of the features that I personally have been looking for in Lightroom.
New enhancements are included in all the modules of Lightroom under the 2.0 beta .
The most significant to me are:

Addition of multiple monitor support
Improved integration [...]

After two days of rain, almost 3 inches of the stuff, I’m ready for spring.
Decided to look back in my catalog of images and to review my notes on images may warrant recapturing this spring.
An image I came across was this early spring image of the Boston Public Garden Swan Boats. This image has many [...]