Monthly Archives: January 2012

Neil’s Secret Beach

  This is Neil’s secret beach. I cannot under any circumstances reveal its location. This is a great little spot especially in the afternoon with a nice California sunset. Unfortunately for me, I was here in the a.m. But, since I was there, I decided to take a few shots. I will be sure to...

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Grungy Palms

Got to work early this morning and I noticed a nice sky with a blazing sun behind these palms. I took out the iphone and framed it up so the sun was directly behind the tree on the right. It created some real intense contrast on the original. I then used Snapseed to apply a...

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Channel Masking

Here’s a little channel masking tutorial I came up with. Of course there are many of ways of doing everything in photoshop, including masking. There are even plug-ins that can do a reasonable job of masking parts of images automatically. Sometimes though, you’ll come across elements in an image with very fine or intricate edges...

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Alien Spores

Had a great sunset tonight in Ocean Park. I’ve been down here a bunch of times and it gets a little boring. I really wanted to find something to make it different this time. I noticed these huge blooms making some great shapes against the sky and decided that would be my foreground. I actually...

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