skaldish

I'm a member of a few online photography groups; trying to learn some skills to impress myself with. One of these groups is really big... too big. There are approx 500 people in it. This past week someone posted one of the most amazing photos I'd ever seen. It was fantastic... but something kept telling me it wasn't his photo.

It deviated so far from his other work. I searched the internet and couldn't find anything. A few hours after I stopped looking, someone else posted a link to the photo and the real photographer, who was not in our group.

see here for original image and photographer.


It was sad... I guess I understand envy, hell everyone wants to stand out and be someone else. For a long time I wanted to be someone else.. like one of these guys.

IT COULD HAPPEN!

Anyway, my point is... we all have a point in our life were we might feel as if we haven't accomplished enough, or we aren't impressive enough to ourselves or those around us. Maybe we expected to be more successful or further in life than we are, but as the saying goes..

'Life is what happens when your making other plans" and that shit happens with an attitude.

Regardless of where we are compared to where we should be, we should never result to plagiarism in order to bolster our sense of self-confidence... and under no uncertain terms should we ever default to such intellectual pilfering for such a servile and ignoble cause as to impress others.

But really... the best advice I've seen in a long time is


I've been spending a lot of time processing pictures that' I've had sitting around in RAW formats. I'm just learning how to actually take good pictures and process them somewhat properly (which is why i'm in the online photography groups). Thought I would share a few.

These are my friend Megan




And my friend Stephanie



And these are a few random images...






these were my first two attempts with HDR images. One with an free HDR software and one I did the old fashioned way with RAW files in a Photoshop.