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Greetings,
Well, it's 2020. Hoping it's going to be a good one for all of us.
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Olympic openings
John Barclay has informed me that we have one opening in our July Olympic National Park workshop.
Contact John for availability and instructions on how to send a deposit.
More information and a link to John’s email address can be found at the Olympic page on my workshops site.
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2019, my year in pictures
2019 was, let’s just say, a different year for me. I did manage to get some pictures I’m very happy with. I’m adding a few below, but you can see more and read about them in this blog post.
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Frequency Separation
Sounds like something from Star Trek, right? (a side note, I can't wait for the new Star Trek: Picard series!)
See that picture of the fishing boats just above? It didn't start out that way.
When you photograph in a harbor at twilight, well, there are lights on. In this case, some lights were behind me. And my tripod and I were casting a shadow. But I really liked this composition so I took the picture, hoping to clone out the shadows later.
This is how the picture started out:
I did manage to clone out the shadow using the traditional clone tools on my laptop. It was rather...clumsy. But good enough for Instagram.
As I mentioned in last month's newsletter, I've been learning new tricks from Sean Bagshaw's videos. And one of them is Frequency Separation. Using this technique you can clone color separately from texture, and texture separately from color. Which means you can clone color over an area without changing the underlying texture. Or you can clone texture without affecting the color. Very cool.
So that's the technique I used to remove this shadow.
I used both color and texture cloning to manage this, and it sure worked well.
Want to learn more about this technique? Funny you should answer "yes" to that query. It just so happens that Sean has a free video tutorial on his YouTube channel. And here it is:
Sean's Frequency Separation Tutorial
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Upcoming workshops and tours
I only have two spaces left for my Sitka Whales and more photo tour coming up this August (3rd-8th). This is a unique chance to spend time on Sitka Sound photographing whales, otters, fishing boats, scenery, seals and other critters. We’ll also photograph the Tongass rain forest, the harbors, the great view from Harbor Mountain, Totem Park and more. I’m also looking into getting us access to some raptors. No promises on that front though, just a bonus I’m trying to arrange.
There’s also still some spaces available in my Oregon Coast:Bandon, Olympic National Park-spring and Palouse workshops as well.
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Go Hawks!!
Yay! The Seattle Seahawks are once again in the playoffs.
Hopefully next month's newsletter will be celebratory, for me anyway!
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