Tag: Nikon V3

Aliens Amongst Us

Aliens Amongst Us

I’ve had an itch to create a Hockney-like photo collage . . . so I went out to the local botanical garden, camera in hand, and took a ton of pictures.  All these were merged into a panorama as a precursor to making the choice of which one to create.  It’s sort of hard to choose, but eventually I will make that choice.  Nonetheless, I did get some photos to share.

Cacti always make me laugh (until I sit on one) because they are such crazy plants – beautiful, eerie, amazing.  Having grown up in the woodlands of the midwest and east coast, I still find palms and cacti intriguing.  And still alien in my concept of plants.  So, the aliens amongst us are here to be seen.

Sunset at Minarets Vista

Sunset at Minarets Vista

Sunset and sunrise are the hardest images to work on in post – contrast issues, color issues, detail issues.  My own monitors vary in color quality – I have one that always veers to over-saturation, so I use the other to attempt to reach some semblance of what I saw / see (not see-saw, see?) or want to evoke.  The colors on this monitor are more subdued and not overdone, but I always wonder if the results are any good.  That’s the problem, I guess, with cheap monitors.  And, I am too cheap to replace them . . .