Smokey Mountain National Park

I've spent the last day and a half in The Great Smokey Mountain National Park having a great time, doing some hiking and of course taking photos. Typical photographers law, when you only have a short amount of time, the weather & clouds don't want to cooperate.

Another photographer law, "Always Take Your Camera", well I broke that one and have been grumbling about it ever since. Knowing I wasn't going to take any long exposure shots on our hike up to Clingmans Dome, I decided I didn't want to hoof my gear. Well about half way up we came across a Black Bear only 20 feet from the trail and all I had was my iPhone :-(

Without any nice clouds around for long exposure landscape shots, I've focused mostly on moving water and when the sun was out, Infrared. I'll have a little time in the morning to shoot and then we'll be heading back to Georgia and then home on Saturday.

Badlands

Reached back into the archives to find this image I took in Badlands National Park in 2005.  We only had a couple of days to spend in the park on our way to Minnesota, but it's a place I definitely want to go back to some day.  We stayed in a RV park that, lets just say, was in need of some repairs, but the food they served in their little family run restaurant was outstanding!  I can't remember the name of the place, but I hope they're still around.

I must admit I was a little hesitant converting this image to B&W.  The original image is very colorful, but I just love the texture & patterns the B&W brings out.

Hope everyone has a great weekend, I'm off to Georgia on Monday.

Stone Mountain Lake

I'll be visiting my brother, who lives north of Atlanta, next week. While I'm there we'll be taking a little trip up to The Great Smokey Mountain National Park for a couple of days. I'm so looking forward to getting outdoors and into some real woods and photographing away!

This post is also a test post, I'm using my iPad with my new Bluetooth Keyboard for the first time to post to the website (via the Squarespace App), Facebook and Google+, so we'll see how it all flows.

Stone Mountain Lake, GA.  Infrared Converted Canon 20D w/10-22mm. Processed in Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6.

Love Tracks

"Love Tracks" downtown Melbourne, FL.  Infrared Converted Canon 20D w/10-22mm @10mm.  Processed in Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Here's an older image I took in Guadalupe Mountains National Park back 2005 while we were on our around the country RV trip.  It's sad to say, but I still have hundreds of images from that trip I haven't processed yet.  So every now and then I like to go through them and pick one out to work on.

Photo Restoration Project

I mentioned in a previous post that I've been working a lot on a personal project of scanning 70+ years of my family's photos for my parents 50th wedding anniversary.  It's amazing how deteriorated photos can became when not properly stored.  On the positive side, it's giving me the opportunity to practice photo restoration and learn some new skills.  Some of those skills I learned last week at Photoshop World when I took Matt Kloskowski's "Restoration Crash Course" and I'll be putting them to practice immediately!  Thanks Matt.

So I thought I'd share some before and after photos, but not too many:-)

Convention Center

Between classes at Photoshop World last week, I snapped a couple of photos of the convention center.  130 sec @f/22, IS) 160, with a LEE Big Stopper and a LEE 4 stop ND filter.

My New Facebook Page!

I finally broke down and created a Facebook Page today.  I still need to add some more content, but it's off and running. http://www.facebook.com/AdamNixonPhotography

"Endless Sky", Infrared converted Canon 20D w/10-22mm @10mm, f/16

onOne's Perfect B&W for iPhone and iPad

This sounds like it will be a very cool app!

onOne Software has announced Perfect B&W for iPhone and iPad, its first mobile photo effects app. Perfect B&W for iPhone and iPad gives users the ability to create and share stunning black and white images wherever they are with their mobile devices, with one-tap presets and photo editing tools.

Availability
Perfect B&W for iPhone and iPad will be available on the Apple App Store in mid-April. It will be priced at $1.99.

Check out onOne's website for more information on this cool looking app.

Photoshop World

My second Photoshop World is done and I'm back home.  But even after 12 hours of sleep, I can feel this is going to take all weekend to recover from.  Had a great time, learned lots of cool tricks & tips and can't wait to put them to use.  The hard part will be remembering everything, even with the workbook & notes (I think my head is going to explode!).