Camera’s View

2.0
Adobe has just released Lightroom 2.0. Those who have followed this blog know that I use and highly recommend Lightroom for global post  processing of my images.
Scott Kelby of Photoshop Insider has a detailed blog entry on the various upgrade features. I suspect that with these new features, I will find less need to [...]

I have found that being part of a Photo Community is a valuable resource for improving both my image capturing and post processing techniques.
I have become a daily visitor and sometimes contributor to The Radiant Vista Community.
In this post, I thought I would take you through the evolution of an image from my post processing [...]

Going through the set of images made during my recent rip to Oregon, I forgot that I had made multiple images so I could create a panorama of Crater Lake.
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Here is what I did -

I set the exposure manually.
I took (8) overlapping images
Use the Photomerge function of Photoshop CS3 ..  auto align [...]

Based on a suggestion of a friend, I decided to take another look at the illusion I was trying to create in the previous post. What I was trying to imply within the second image ( see previous post), was an illusion of a pending storm or a storm that had just left the area.
The [...]

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 [...]