It's Mothers' Day and it's been glorious. Blue skies, crisp clean air, cool enough for a coat but warm enough to enjoy being outside.
I've recently been discovering some of my older images and looking at them with clean eyes. It's so easy to get immersed in some newer work that you lose a bit of perspective - are they really that good? maybe not? or maybe they are. However, I find that when images are put aside for some time, fresher eyes are often a better judge.
So what have I been enjoying? I've really loved finding some of the older images from the local area here in the Blue Mountains. I'd completely forgotten that some of them even existed. One of the joys of this sort of reminiscing is that now my skills in editing are far better than they were even a couple of years ago.
I've loved working with Nik software and have made a real effort recently to dig a bit deeper and learn more about the tools on offer. Nik Silver Efex is a great B&W help. Because I was never a darkroom person I avoided a few of the film effects that are hidden in the palette but recently I did a couple of webinars and have found so much more that I had been using. Color Efex is my other current favourite. Version 4.0 allows so much more than the earlier version so I've been working my way through it slowly and finding the ability to use multiple filters in an image quite beautiful.
So, today, with the last of the sunshine lighting up a couple of my maples, I grabbed the camera determined to take a shot for posterity.
Here are a couple of my favourites - real quick and dirty shooting and a bit of lick and polish thanks to Nik.
Enjoy!!
I've recently been discovering some of my older images and looking at them with clean eyes. It's so easy to get immersed in some newer work that you lose a bit of perspective - are they really that good? maybe not? or maybe they are. However, I find that when images are put aside for some time, fresher eyes are often a better judge.
So what have I been enjoying? I've really loved finding some of the older images from the local area here in the Blue Mountains. I'd completely forgotten that some of them even existed. One of the joys of this sort of reminiscing is that now my skills in editing are far better than they were even a couple of years ago.
I've loved working with Nik software and have made a real effort recently to dig a bit deeper and learn more about the tools on offer. Nik Silver Efex is a great B&W help. Because I was never a darkroom person I avoided a few of the film effects that are hidden in the palette but recently I did a couple of webinars and have found so much more that I had been using. Color Efex is my other current favourite. Version 4.0 allows so much more than the earlier version so I've been working my way through it slowly and finding the ability to use multiple filters in an image quite beautiful.
So, today, with the last of the sunshine lighting up a couple of my maples, I grabbed the camera determined to take a shot for posterity.
Here are a couple of my favourites - real quick and dirty shooting and a bit of lick and polish thanks to Nik.
Enjoy!!
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