Archives for the 'ACDSee' Category
A Softer Liv
Friday, January 29th, 2016
On that last shoot with the amazingly wonderful Liv Sage I pulled out my old single-element soft focus lens and played around with it for a while. It makes nice soft photos in a way that really can’t be duplicated in software. Of course, DxO had no idea what to do with these files, so I […]
Liv and a New Workflow
Monday, January 25th, 2016
I recently did a new shoot with the lovely and wonderful Liv Sage. Since I’ve been experimenting with alternatives to Adobe Photoshop for my editing, I decided to use different software for processing this new shoot. The starting point for my new workflow is DxO Optics Pro. It does the file conversion from the original […]
DxO Works
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
For my photographer friends: I’m beginning to establish a workflow with DxO Optics Pro. It seems to be working pretty well. I just needed to make a print of the photo in the last post here that was selected for the upcoming show at LightBox Photographic Gallery. I had already processed the photo in Photoshop. […]
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
A few more photos of Athena, this time taken with a “real” camera, my D7000 and my 50mm f/1.4 lens. I like that lens for portraits. These were shot stopped down one stop to f/2. It’s nice and sharp there, with a shallow depth of focus. The originals of these, of course, are in color, […]
Memorial Day
Monday, May 26th, 2014
I took some photos of the Rhododendron in front of our house this weekend. So here is one of those shots to mark this holiday. I don’t usually have anything to say about this holiday, except sometimes to rant a bit about the apparent inability of most people to distinguish between Memorial Day and Veterans […]
And the Light had Stripes
Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
Here are some more photos of Dyaphanye from our first day of shooting in Savannah. The striped light has, of course, been done many, many times. Nothing new there. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t still fun to play around with. So we did. And fun it was. These were processed in ACDSee Pro 5, just […]
Camera Porn
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
It’s Kirk Tuck’s fault. He wrote this post on his blog a while back. I wasn’t planning, and had no desire, to buy another camera. But at $150 for a 12 mp camera, how could I resist? (I see the price has gone up to $170 as I’m typing this…still one hell of a bargain.) […]
Dabbling in Paint
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
As I continue to work my way through my backlog of shoots, I’ve now reached the end of February. Slow but steady progress. This was a fun shoot…as I’m sure you can see. There’s a painter who has his studio in the same building as mine. Mike Elsass also has a gallery in the Oregon […]
Ayn’s Front
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Here are some more photos of Ayn from my test of the lighting technique shared with me by MC Grain. Ayn looks great from pretty much any angle, and I’m really enjoying what this light does with her figure. I’ll be doing some more work with this light. And I’m looking forward very much to […]
