Posts in Category: Outdoors
New Lens | Around the Apartment
I bought a new lens this weekend – a Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 (don’t worry, I didn’t pay the MSRP) – and wanted to try it out around the apartment. The lens is super awesome. Hope you like the pictures. I’ll be following up this blog post with a new “before/after” feature that will show some of the edits on these pictures. Can’t wait to debut the new feature (once I get the kinks worked out)!
Our fiddle leaf fig tree.
A tree near our apartment pool.
New shoes.
Fourth (of July) Photography
You didn’t think that Fourth Photography would miss the opportunity to take pictures on Fourth of July, did you? Christmas and Thanksgiving are definitely my two favorite holidays, but Independence Day is a close third. It was my first FOJ in Austin, and a very memorable one at that. Four of our friends came to town to visit – we had a breakfast casserole and mimosas to start, went to a cookout/pool party in the afternoon, and finished off the day with fireworks downtown. Hope your July 4th was as awesome as ours!
Bloom: Before and After
I PROMISE that Europe pictures are coming soon, but I couldn’t help myself with this one – it just needed more attention. The featured image for this post is titled “Bloom,” and it’s also featured in the previous blog entry. Bloom is one of those pictures I took, reviewed on my camera screen, and knew right away that I was going to love the final product. I also knew that what I saw on my camera screen wouldn’t be nearly the same as the final product. Normally, I don’t let everyone in on the behind-the-scenes stuff, but this time, I decided to do just that.
I use Adobe Lightroom pretty extensively to enhance every picture before I publicize it. Lightroom is an essential tool for importing picture files, selecting the photos I want to edit, publishing them, and creating archives of old “albums” of imported images. Most people think about Photoshop when they hear “editing photos,” but I haven’t touched Photoshop in months. IN FACT, I only have Photoshop Elements installed on my computer right now – not even a full version of Photoshop. Anyways, I used almost all the “weapons” in the Lightroom “arsenal” to get the final product just the way I wanted.
