While visiting a close friend who now is living out his life in a long term care facility, I started making small posters, from my photographic stock images, to cheer him up and give him another point of view. This was intended to create a journey inward and to help him become and adventurer instead of a victim. Every visit, I would bring a new one with an inspirational message that I borrowed from the Bible or one that I wrote. I soon found myself giving the photo-posters out to more people. I've made these Photo-Mini-Posters available for FREE on my website to anyone who needs a little "Cheering Up!" Follow this link for a large thumbnail and just cick on any that you want: http://www.imagingtechnologytraining.com/Pages/posterthumbs.htm

Check out this article published in the Fossil Rim newsletter. Jeanette Bennett wrote about our Fossil Rim Fied Trips!
Just follow this link http://www.fossilrim.org/newsletter/Oct06/Photo_Ops.html


Thanks Jeanette!

Please ignore all the x's. I'm having trouble uploading images and I had to make several attempts to get this up. Anyone who is familiar with Blogger can jump in at any time with suggestions. Thanks in advance. Here we have before and after of a scene at Farmers Market Downtown Dallas

This is a great use of shallow depth of field in a portrait photograph. The "out of focus" background really lets the subject be the center of attention. Jeanette Bennett used her new Canon 500mm lens at f-5.6 (and, of course, a sturdy tripod) to produce this effect.

Thursday, we went searching for pumpkins. Just north of Dallas we found the Flower Mound Pumkin Patch. This is a great place to bring the kids! How many ways can you shoot a pumkin! It was a very colorful day.

I just have to brag on my student, Larry Flake, who drives up from Houston on a regular basis to attend my Photoshop classes. One of his pictures was published. Take a look at this 2nd runner up winner of the 2006 Lake Conroe Photo Contest!

Getting all of the balloons at the Plano Balloon Festival to light up at the same time was quite a trick! Maybe a Photoshop trick? Photoshop student,Jeanette Bennett, was creative in making this magic happen

Plano Balloon Festival

Well, folks, the Plano Balloon Festival was literally blown away. Too much wind and weather. The exhibitors did the best they could with what they had to work with and a few brave souls showed their stuff anyway.

I already have a bazillion photos of balloons in the air from last year, but this event made me focus on a different aspect of the balloon festival. The Balloonists gave the audience a pretty hot time as they blasted away on their furnaces (is that what they are called...someone enlighten me) for the evening "Glow".

The color of light records differently than what our eyes see. The flames were a bright orange and yellow with an occasional bue spike. Letting the people go darker, they would have only been sillouettes If I had exposed for the flames. Getting enough exposure for good skin tones on the people caused the hot values in the flames to blow out or become "clipped".

Sometimes the dynamic range in a potential image exceeds what can be recorded. This is where the human factor comes in and why you can't just leave the camera on "auto" and control your results. You decide what is important when setting the exposure.

Creativity really counts in Photography. Find something cool to shoot! Posted are photos of how I saw the event.