Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Next Shot - WEEK 9----Technique -- Sepia - Gifts of Nature

Next shot week 9 and the technique of Sepia (Gifts of Nature)

To find away to adjust your photos and create something eye catching is what Photography is all about. All the way back to the days of the dark room. Photographers were messing around with the chemicals and the time in the soak. Also the exposure to the light in order to get what they wanted. Showing you the art of their trade. Well I love the Digital world we live in now as far as photography goes. Being able to create attractive shots and being able to do it in so many different ways.

Ok I did not just get up first light this morning and run out and shoot these pictures. No these are from my files. I have been shooting other shots though. He he Like you would think I wouldn't. Well putting these old frames to sepia. Hope they show the way I want them too. But if they don't, I will just have to try harder next time. I salute the gifts of Nature. 

 

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So now I offer up these shots processed in the technique of Sepia. Drum roll please. boom boom boom da boom

 

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And now I use the words from the great grizzly Adams.

Get out and shoot something!

17 comments:

  1. mmmhhhmmm, got no bears in SA, that I know off. You make me laugh. Wonderful photography, great technques, I always enjoy your photos, never know what to expect when opening up a blog, what kind of cattle or livestock or is that a yak ?????

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  2. A fabulous contribution Randall they all look wonderful in sepia;)

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  3. Very interesting, Randall. Although on my screen, which is probably color-blind, the shots are slightly greenish...
    Still intereresting tho... :)

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  4. A yak? We have no yaks in the US. Yes, we have no yaks, as the old song used to almost go.
    My guess would be that it's a bison, often confused with a buffalo. Before the arrival of the white man's rifle this land was filled with counless millions of them. That was before it became to be considered 'sporting' for 'hunters' to drive by herds of them riding on a train (not the bison) and shoot them down at random. Great sportmen, those early pioneers. Didn't do much for the native American food supply though, which may or may not have been consciously intended. (The same is true for carrier pigeons, of which only 120 years ago the skys were filled with over a billion of. So many, in fact, that it was thought they could never be hunted into extinction.) (The last one died early last century - an entire species wiped out, again, though, very sportingly. Rather like when our last and beloved President, Vice, of, used to literally shoot fish and other animals in a barrel, when he wasn't getting himself blotto and shooting his best friends in the face.
    Think I went off on a tangent there. Sorry 'bout that.
    Anyway, I think it's a bison.

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  5. I think of the 3 the buffalo (bison) is my favorite. Just got back in the house and about to down load. Maybe I have something that will work.

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  6. They're both beautiful, Randall! So is your guy with the salutations.


    Next Shot Week # 9 ~ Sepia~ Gifts of Nature

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  7. No time for last week but wouldloved to have so I thoiught I would get in early while I have a few hours to spare. This week I chose three photos to convert to an aged sepia look.

    I like very much the feel of the last shot of your Randall - It has a real late 19th / early 120th century look about it.Love that blurred background - fantastic. Greetings back to the big guy at the top - he looks kinda familiar!! The Bison is a beaut shot - do they live local to you Randall?? Beautiful looking beasts! Thankss for the theme this week too!
    http://cleaunz.multiply.com/journal/item/273/Next_Shot_-_WEEK_9_-_Technique_--_Sepia_-_Gifts_of_Nature

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  8. I will leave out the rest of that. LOL Yes this is a buffilo in Canada. Smart people because they still have them. Hunted and driven out by cattle in the US. I have to ask WHy! but I think I know.

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  9. No those were in Canada, and really great to see.

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  10. Came back to look again. I think what I didn't like about some of mine were the lacking of detail to show nicely in sepia.

    http://mrsrh.multiply.com/journal/item/777

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  11. I think they were good, but there is a lot of ways to bring out the details more.

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  12. What are you using again to process the photos?

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  13. Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 with the onone Photo Essentials 4.0 that I had a coupon to get, works with Adobe Photoshop elements, just click on the sepia

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  14. Absolutely stunning all of them Randall.

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  15. LOL Love your shots I am afraid mine will not be that interesting!

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