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Click and Go

I’m really trying to be more efficient when it comes to editing images (and everything else, for that matter, to do with photography) just to improve my workflow.  I can honestly say that I’ve spent upwards of hours editing a single image.  I have to get more efficient with that.  Lightroom can do some heavy lifting when it comes to editing and I’m trying not to always end up in Photoshop because not every image needs it.  So I’m trying to create single and, possibly, multiple single one-click presets that can get the job done.  This is a photo from back in the Fall of 2012 with two “stacked” presets (2 clicks) in Lightroom.

On the way up to a iconic landmark in the Harrisonburg area - Reddish Knob.

On the way up to a iconic landmark in the Harrisonburg area – Reddish Knob.

Look Up

Take a walk through the forest and look up.  That’s it.

This is what happens with a fisheye lens when all lines in the image point toward the middle of the frame. | Order a print of this image.

If all lines run across the frame toward the center of a fisheye lens the lines end up straight. | Order a print of this image.

TBT

The photo isn’t really a throwback, but the place is.  Todd Lake (the lake is directly below the camera) in the George Washington National Forest – it’s where I spent a lot of my childhood.  I picked wild blueberries and ate them off the plant.  I’d walk through the forest and get drinking water from the creek.  My brothers and I would sit on top of my grandmother’s bronco and pick/eat persimmons from the tree.  And I learned to drive said bronco in the field.  I remember going up there every couple weeks to mow the huge field – I also learned to use a riding mower there, too.  I spent the day up there shooting yesterday with my dad and my dog Waldo.  Good times.

"The Cabin"

The cabin, where I spent a lot of my youth, sits at the bottom of the clearing in the middle of the image.

Bamboo

I only post one image here per day, but I’ve taken countless images over this past year.  I should start going back through my photos more often because I’d find stuff that I completely forgot about.  Perhaps that’s why I took the image in the first place…

We usually go to Williamsburg in the cold months, but we recently went in the summer so everything was still green.

We usually go to Williamsburg in the cold months, but we recently went in the summer so everything was still green.