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Monday, July 18, 2011

144 - gimp week

Hello all. I'm trying something new for this week. Lately I have been editing a lot of photos using Gimp which is basically a free equivalent of photoshop. It wasn't super easy to start using, but after playing around with it for months, things are going more smoothly. I didn't want to be one of those people who was always editing photos. In fact, I even refused to crop photos until I got to my seventy-first photo. But now I am starting to learn to use edits as more of an extension to the camera. I still strive to get exactly the photo I see with my eye, but sometimes I like to edit the photos in ways that are totally not possible to do with a camera alone.

So for this week (and possibly times in the future as well) I present to you all photos that have been edited in ways in which I prefer the result over the original photo.

For today, I present to you a better version of the tulip from last month.


This is how bright these tulips actually looked. However, they were located in a sort of median, and so, with cars on all sides of me, I ended up being careless and not paying attention to the fact that I was over exposing my photos. But alas, Gimp saves the day, and returns my photo to what I had envisioned.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

143



Trees in full blossom and a nice rock wall, can't really go wrong with that (:

Exposure time: 1/250 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 320

Monday, July 11, 2011

142



Another one of the tree blossoms. The sky was quite grey at the time I took these, so I was glad to see a bit of that true color showed up in this photo.

Exposure time: 1/250 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 320

Thursday, July 7, 2011

141



The bees also thought the trees were quite lovely.

Exposure time: 1/250 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 320

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

140



The blossoms on these trees were so so lovely (at least at the end of May when this photo was taken they were).

Exposure time: 1/250 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 320

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

139



Due to laziness, there is now over a month gap between when some of these photos (like this one) were taken, and when they made it to the blog. It was the end of May when the lilacs started blossom. Oh such a lovely smell!

Exposure time: 1/250 s
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 320

Friday, July 1, 2011

138



Check out these crazy clouds I saw recently! They looked like a cartoon, like someone had just painted them in.

Exposure time: 1/25 s
Aperture: f/29.0
ISO: 320