I had couldn't stand all the people in these shots so I played with them. 

Front  fender 

Bel Air 

5 

Blue 

Here is what I came up with.  But I couldn't decide which one I liked better.  What is your pick?

Full color 

Desat 

Sneaking out to shoot

I put this in photoshop and couldn't figure out what I did to make everything so wavy ie: the gunwhales

Anyway one morning in Boca, Cuba, quiet, warm and sun breaking

Winter in Boothbay When you live in a place where there are long months of winter, you must ask yourself how best to capture the season....glorious scenes of snow or people and pets enjoying it? White on White Or to capture key features of it like this shot of Ice Paths with footprints in melting ice.  Or one could play in Photoshop (or other programs) to turn your work from color to black and white to see what turns up.Ice texture  BW If you hadn't guessed, I find winter challenging photographically!

A few weekends ago, back in Bristol from the Christmas holidays and watching a basketball match with my flatmate playing, before a Sunday roast lunch - perfect, hey Mike!

There's obviously been a bit of Photoshop tinkering on the 'Braves in Red.' Only some contrast changes on the others.

I've been playing around with photoshop...such fun...hope you enjoy:)
family time
playing
walking on the boardwalk

Thought I would try a few different pics this time, Landscape Grand Mesa in the fall Portrait, our little girl And Photoshop reworked Water color Go ahead I can take it.

Hello!

I just had to share. :-) I'm sitting in my Photoshop class today waiting for it to start when my instructor walks in and immediately tries to help a classmate hook her computer up to the printer in the class... in the middle of doing that she stops and asks " hey, you guys want to go on a field trip to Multnomah falls to take pictures since it's frozen over?" Mostly everyone jumped at the opportunity! Other people were a little pensive due to the extreme cold, however it was sunny which we rarely get on this side of the Cascades.... So we piled into a few vehicles and we were off.... Just wanted to share what I saw!
Multnomahbridge
multnomahfalls
creek  

Hello again,
 I shot this from a rooftop on a base near Kabul, It was an experiment with stiching and editing ( Antennas, other roof tops etc. ) with too much time on my hands and the latest copy of photoshop I cam up with this, hope you all enjoyEvening in Kabul Hello again,
 I shot this from a rooftop on a base near Kabul, It was an experiment with stiching and editing ( Antennas, other roof tops etc. ) with too much time on my hands and the latest copy of photoshop I cam up with this, hope you all enjoy

Please, hold your applause until after the post, but I'm out.  This is the last post of the experiments.  Still the mannequin today, same concept only I was a little generous with photoshop.

These were really interesting to edit.  I knew what the mannequin looked like in the incandescent lights of my bathroom, but once I turned the lights off and tripped the shutter I had no idea what was going to come out.  Was it going to be blown out, underexposed, too blue, too red.  
So when it came to editing I had no memory of the scene to help guide me.  I didn't do anything crazy with filters in ps or such, but I did burn a few areas here and there and adjusted levels and curves to what appealed to me at the time.

Anyway, here's the last.
mannequin 5
mannequin 6
mannequin 7
mannequin 8
mannequin 9 bw

Thanks for looking, and sorry if I've bored some.

Every once in a while, I like to play around.
Filtered Hibiscus
Little House in a Holler

This past week and a half, along with everything else that is going on, I have been working on a project for an in-service day at school.  I have to make a presentation about what to do with pictures once you have taken them - keeping in mind that I am talking to teachers.  Here are just two of the samples that I am going to have in my presentation.
Playing Around The World
Science Experiments
I am actually making a power point presentation and then also I plan on showing how to do some things on Photoshop Elements.

Those who know me are aware that I love going to historical areas and photographing them.  Every Christmas there is a reenactment of the Stones River Battle, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.  The people who come out are very nice and are great at ignoring the camera!  I shot in color but processed in either B&W or sepia for an aged effect.  If I can figure out the noise setting on my Photoshop someday, I might try adding that.  But take a look and give some advice please.
Soldier 1   This is a photo of the Rebel soldiers after they had drilled for the crowd.

soldier 2   I just loved this guy's hat and the panache is wore it with!

soldier 3  This soldier was getting his gear together on the battlefield.

soldier 4 This is one of my favorite because it came out so sharp.  He was just taking in everything going on around him.

soldier 5 Cannon fire!  That was loud!!

I did work some with these photos in framing them.  To me they look better.  But I'm not sure how everyone else views them.  You can see the framed photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jellybeansview.  Please take a look and let me know what you like better.

Happy New Year!

and probably not everyone's cup of tea.

image 1463
Taken with a lensbaby 3G and then manipulated in Photoshop

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Taken with a macro lens and then manipulated in Photoshop

Too much time on my hands?  Maybe.  But I've also seen some amazing artistic stuff done with Photoshop and I'd like to learn how to do it too, so these are some of my first attempts.

PS...Happy New Year everyone...