Half Dome – Deep Black and White
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009And another image from this past holiday visit to Mariposa and Yosemite. This one is a close-up of Half Dome taken from the Tunnel View (aka., Inspiration Point) as a color image, then post-processed in Adobe’s Lightroom into a black & white using a preset I picked up called “BLACK”. What do you think of [...]
Half Dome B&W
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009This image came from my recent trip to California to spend the holidays with my family. This was a color image that was converted to B&W in Adobe’s Lightroom 2.2, using a preset that desaturates the red channel and adds contrast. From there, I added some of my own touches and framing to produce what [...]
Christmas in California
Monday, January 12th, 2009For the first time in my 16 years since having moved to Colorado, my wife and daughter and I spent the holidays with my family in California, back in my hometown of Mariposa, where I grew up. Nine glorious days with friends and family and even one day spent inside Yosemite National Park photographing the [...]