Been a While

Well, it's been a while since I posted anything on here so I thought it might be a good idea to update everyone on a few of the things I have been taking pictures of this summer. Since we have moved back for college, I don't even think I have clicked the shutter. I guess its been close to three weeks now so I need to get out and capture something. Anyway, thanks to everyone who voted for my picture over the summer. Here are some of my desert photos as well as some of Hillary's Senior photos. You can go to my flickr page to see more. Enjoy.

KSL Weekly Winner

I submitted a few photos to the KSL Pictureline photo contest last week and last night I was getting ready for bed and heard everyone saying that my picture was on the TV. Then I had people calling me saying they seen it too. I guess I won the weekly contest. I have been trying to win for a few years now. At the end of the month, they let everyone vote between 4 photos. The winner gets a new little camera and a spot in the KSL calendar. I would love to win so I hope it turns out well. I forgot to post the picture when I posted the last three pictures so you can find it here. Hope the link works.

New photos

I finally got a chance to get out and take some landscape photos. They are all around the Hanksville area. Let me know what you think and enjoy.

More pictures of Laynie

I have been taking many pictures but haven't had the time to work on them and post them. Here are a some more of Laynie and I hope to get some more of the other pictures that I have taken. Enjoy.

This her when I get the camera out.

More Photos of Laynie

Here are a few more pictures of our little Laynie Bug now that she is one month old.

New additions

Our little Laynie bug was born on Saturday morning and I have been taking lots of pictures. Here are a few and there will be more to come.

I think she thought she was a snake when she came. She kept poking her tounge out just like a snake would.This was the view from the hospital room. I'm sure Britney thought it was nice of me to be taking pictures of the view while she was in labor. Sorry Babe.

Still not much new

Well finals have past and I thought I would have a lot more time to get out and take pictures but my wife is on bed rest and I've just been home holding down the fort (when we are not stuck at the hospital). I have got a new computer toy to play with though. It is a plug-in for photoshop called Bokeh from Alien Skins which you can find here. What it does is allow me to get the look of a large aperture lens (very blurred out backgrounds which makes the subject stand out more) without the cost of one. It does have its drawbacks though. I have to mask the subject in photoshop to keep the plug-in from blurring the wrong thing which isn't to bad except when it comes to hair. I hate trying to mask out stray hair and if I don't, it just doesn't look as convincing to me. Well anyway, here are a few examples from my trial of the plug-in. There are some better ones on the company website.

Some before and after pictures of Gavin and Hillary

It has this feature that will blur out things gradually which makes it nice for backgrounds that slowly increase in distance from the subject. You can see it in this pictures below.

Here is another set of myself that I was playing around with today.