January 14, 2009 Sam at her laptop. I actually took this last night, but it was pretty late so I'm counting it for today. I did the B&W conversion using the Channel Mixer in Photoshop with the 'monochrome' option. By moving the blue slider all the way up and the red and green down, it made the bluish light from the computer screen on her face brighter and toned down the yellowish incandescent light on the wall behind her.

With the start of 2009 I have returned to my daily photo endeavor. The goal is one good photo every day to keep me active with my camera and my Smugmug site. I will miss days and weeks, but hopefully I'll come back fresh after each hiatus, however long it lasts. I started shooting daily photos early last year; my gallery for 2008 is here.

As always, comments--especially constructive criticism--are warmly welcome.

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$jpellow > January 18, 2009 Binocular self-portrait. I thought of these compact binoculars when I was looking for a daily photo today. First I thought I would try a shot head-on, with the small refracted images coming through the binoculars, but as soon as I took them out I was intrigued by the reflections in the lenses. I set up my camera on a tripod and put it right next to my face, placed the binoculars on some black velour about a foot away, and swung my desk lamp around to light my face but not the binoculars. The result is almost SOOC. I just tweaked the whole image with a slight curves adjustment and some sharpening - no fiddling with with the reflections. The orange color is from the lens coatings. I think it's a pretty neat image, though it's kind of a creepy look for me.$

January 14, 2009
Sam at her laptop.

I actually took this last night, but it was pretty late so I'm counting it for today. I did the B&W conversion using the Channel Mixer in Photoshop with the 'monochrome' option. By moving the blue slider all the way up and the red and green down, it made the bluish light from the computer screen on her face brighter and toned down the yellowish incandescent light on the wall behind her.

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