Dilettante Photography: Retrospective

What I see first thing in the morning, and what I "see"! © Oshi Shikigami

my photo of my painting .

My photo of my painting .

Abstract © Oshi Shikigami

Equip: Sony a7Rii with f/2 28mm lens Single shot edited in Lightroom then with Topaz Labs (via Photoshop) Originally shared by Nisah Cheatham Tower of Belem, Portugal This is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site that includes this tower and a monastery not to far away.

The newest addition to my portfolio. Title: Colorado Sky Pulse Score: 79.3 If anyone has a 500px account please let me know be happy to follow you and support your work.  Happy New Year folks! https://500px.com/photo/134286599/colorado-sky-by-fred-scott-jr?utm_medium=googleplus&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px

Watched an interview this morning titled Portfolio Interview & Photo Tips with Jessica Drossin. Her creative approach with her photography sounded very similar to my own. Just learning where she pulls her tools and resources from became very inspirational. Below is an old photograph that I had edited. I took the original image and tried some of the things I learned from Jessica today. I uploaded the full quality size image onto my 500px account about an hour ago. I already have a score of 81.9. My first edited version of this image only received a 48.2. Hope you all enjoy.

Here is the finish image.  I posted two images of mine earlier today that I planed on blending together.  Cloned out the T.V. wires that were behind the hanging plant.  Cloned out the blurred moon in the original shot with the flowers.  Masked in the moon from my second image and added a slight lens flare effect.  Did some color grading and manipulated the hard light to create a surrealism effect over all. Let me know what you think.  Take care folks! http://www.viewbug.com/photo/61659219

Going to get started early this year to add new images to my ViewBug and 500px accounts. These two images I plan on blending together to make a new photograph. I will clean up the first image with the flowers by: Healing Dead Pixels spots Removing the fuzzy moon Removing the fuzzy T.V. cable lines in the far backdrop Blend in the moon from the second image around the upper left hand corner. These are straight from my camera. The only thing I have done to them is scale them down with Lightroom to meet the requirement needed for free photo storage space from Google plus. Always looking for tips and insight on my photography skills and any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and have a great day!

Originally shared by Nisah Cheatham Ingreja da Pena up on Calçada Santana Lisbon, Portugal Its one of those amazing churches that could be a museum, but is just a working neighborhood church! The candles and the low light were quite peaceful, perfectly changing the mood from the street just outside. _________________________________________________ Sony a7Rii with 28mm F/2 @ 1/60 sec and ISO 6400 Lightroom (w/ Topaz Labs plugins: DeNoise and Details)

The wave Olympus epm 1

Just installed the google chrome extension and: It  W O R K S !!!!  After all day research and asking for help in the German G Forum (thanks to Susanne S!!) finally for me the most important solution for having access to the photos!  Your work is highly appreciated Olivier Jobert !! So...... i love to give you this information!

Good morning :) Now I have the new googl+ and I have one question.. does anyone know how to post you photos/post public AND to you circles in one post ?? I only can choose one at a time, not both like I used to be abel to do. Or does it matter anyway? if I post public - will my circles see it anyway? Or do I just go back to old google+ and stay there? Thanks for any info on this dear friends :)

This was a handheld shot with a Calumet CF0003 light and the sandwich arranged nicely on my dining room table. For post-processing, I used Lightroom and TopazLabs DeNoise & Details (via Photoshop). ______________________________ Sony NEX-6 (E 50mm F1.8 OSS) 1/60 @ f/2.8, ISO 100 Originally shared by Nisah Cheatham Chicago food truck: Corner Farmacy ( http://www.thecornerfarmacy.com ) It's a great sandwich.  Turkey, bacon, avocado, sprouts, & more...

Originally shared by Kadaj Silver #aurora in Iceland.  アイスランドのオーロラ。

I need your help please !! I´m taking part with a small group of photographers here in my town, to but up a little photographic exhibition to introduce our new group. I have never done this, and now I have to choose TWO (2) photos of mine to print out in A3 - it will be either on canvas or aluminum plate. I have chosen these 6 photographs below, that represents my kind of photographic work. So I would like to ask you guys, if you would ,please, to help me narrow it down more -  could you tell me wich 2 of these photos you would choose, or even if I should not use them?? All comments are welcome ! Thank you :) :)

~Double.. Double.. Toil and Trouble..Fire burn.. and Cauldron bubble...~D~ Originally shared by Kevin Vincent ~Double.. Double.. Toil and Trouble..Fire burn.. and Cauldron bubble...~

Whenever I'm in San Francisco, I end up walking at least 7 miles a day, but I always wish I had more time to take a ferry out across the bay... Processed Lightroom (lens corrections, cropping, exposure) Adobe Photoshop using Topaz Remask to create three different masks, then Topaz Denoise and Topaz Details __________________________________ Sony NEX-6 (16-50mm lens @ 44mm) 1/80, f/22, ISO 400 Originally shared by Nisah Cheatham Sunset -- Alcatraz from August of 2014

On the bridge  #Anjou   #loirevalley   #beautifulplaces   #beatifulpictures

Natural Winter Rainbow in the Street.