| the story behind the photos beach gallery |
- Where were these photos taken?
Beach, FL (between Pensacola and
Panama City, in the Florida panhandle.)
I was drawn to this particular beach
because of the dunes and vegetation.
The hurricanes of recent years have
obliterated both on most major Gulf Coast
beaches. There is a beach restoration
research project going on at Mary Esther,
and it was wonderful to see. Like the
first green buds on a tree after a long,
bitter winter, these dunes and sea oats
bear the promise of renewal and a
return to brighter days.
- What did you do to get that look to your photos?
Adobe Photoshop to add 'artistic filters'. These
are digital enhancements that give a photograph
a particular look, say of a watercolor painting.
While I do use Photoshop, it is a far more
powerful program than most people realize.
For professional photographers, its has become
a 'digital darkroom', allowing them to adjust all
the parameters on a computer that once were
adjusted in a darkroom through chemical baths.
The main adjustments I have made on my
beach photographs are contrast (increasing
the differences between the darks and the
lights in the picture) and saturaion (deepening
the colors already present in a photo--not
adding colors to it.
For more information on my photography
techniques, see:
about Cindy's work
the making of a photograph
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