On Thursday I underwent a trip to Tallulah Gorge and Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia.
I found it to be very nice there, Waterfalls always interest me and the Vistas, though hazy off Black Rock Mountain were stunning. I created a couple Panoramas to give an idea. You can see those on my flickr site @ http://flickr.com/photos/michaelbaumann/archives/date-taken/2007/08/16/
This week I made it to the Atlanta Zoo for the first time since I live in this city (over 7 years) and I was pleasantly surprised how well kept it is.
Temperatures were ~102 so I did not stay as long as I hoped thus I managed to take some nice photographs. Leave a comment if you like, here they are: http://flickr.com/photos/michaelbaumann/archives/date-taken/2007/08/13/
I have been playing around with a Photo effect called Orton Effect using Photoshop. Before today, I had head of the name just never knew what it meant. Essentially it is the blending of a in-focus photo with an out-of-focus photo.
With the power of Photoshop (or any other image editing software) you can achieve the same result fairly easy by screening a the in-focus photo and giving a Gaussian Blur to another layer and multiplying it.
Here are two examples of this effect using photos of flowers I took earlier this year.
Original:
With Orton Effect:
Original/Orton
Of course, you can call this just a soft version of the original which in a way it is, I still like the effect for some subject. Tried it on a portrait I took and it looked quite stunning as well.
