Sunday, February 24, 2013

Sonoma Morning

I finally got the will to get up at dawn to take some photos. All within a couple of miles from my home. First there's this old barn with the mustard fields in bloom:


Local fruit and veg stand:



And the usual junkyard truck. I've shot this at sunset before, never at sunrise, so from the other side:



Thursday, February 7, 2013

Petaluma River

I haven't taken many photos for a couple of weeks - none I've been especially happy with anyway. I was looking at some pictures I took two years ago underneath the Petaluma Bridge, between Novato and Sonoma. Here's the first one:

Someone asked me if I had used Topaz. I hadn't heard of Topaz then, I was just learning Lightroom, but I did recently get Topaz Adjust, and so I thought I'd try it out on that old picture. The new Topazed version is this:


Over processed? The Topaz version certainly has something extra, although it also has more chroma noise (see the white superstructure of the boat). I'm not sure which one I prefer. Opinions?

Here's one more from the same day - just basic LR: