Sunday, March 24, 2013

Sure glad spring started last week!

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Wow...I hadn't realized how long it has been since my last post. Below is a couple of photos of Sharon's Memorial Bench. Please keep in mind that the ground is still a bit unsettled and the flower vases have not yet been installed. They are currently on back order.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Additional Christmas Day Shots

Below are some additional shots from Christmas Day. I will be mixing shots from both sides of the family...First up is Savanna.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Christmas 2011

Hello All...
I have begun posting some of my photos from Christmas day. These are just a few samples. To see all of the photos just click on the small slideshow running in the right hand-column.
Greg

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Austin's Christmas Photos

Hello All...

The following group of photos were taken in a session to get the shot I used in my Christmas Card. Looking at the photos it is hard to believe he was in Intensive Care just the week before.

As always, to view the full album just click on the small slideshow running in the right column. I will be adding new photos to the albumn over the next few days.
Greg




Sunday, June 26, 2011

Yard Ape!

At 2 1/2...he is all boy!!!


Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Tyler's Graduation Celebration

I have posted a couple of photos from Tyler's Graduation Celebration here just to get things started. I took quite a few photos and it will take me a while to get them all ready to post. As soon as I get enough ready, I will put up a seperate Blog dedicate to just Tyler's Celebration. When the new Blog is ready to view, I will post a link to it here.

Greg



http://tylerscelebration.blogspot.com/

Andrew's Graduation Celebration

Below are a couple of photos from Andrew's Celebration. Below the photos is a link to his own Blog page where you can view all the shots taken that day.

Greg



http://andrewscelebration.blogspot.com/

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Easter 2011

Some Photoshop fun! Happy Easter all...

Greg


The following group of photos is just some experiments with presentation to see how Matte and Frames might look for displaying some of my photos.


Lisa and Anthony




Now...before we begin, these or the rules for todays Easter Egg Hunt!


Then theres these guys...







Thursday, April 14, 2011

Earth Day April 22, 2011

My contribution to Earth Day this year.

Greg

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Lighting Experiment

The following example is a representation of a realistic IES (photometric) lighting effect. It was created using an IES lighting profile in Photoshop. The inspiration for the project came from a talented artist Keith Sereby.

Greg

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Austin Film Strip

Experimenting with different presentations.

Greg

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Winter Card

Here is a Winter Card I created in Photoshop. It has a 3D look to it and was inspired by a project I found on the Internet. We had just had an 80 degree day followed by 5 inches of snow 2 days later...I was feeling a little bummed out at the weather.

Greg

Sunday, March 27, 2011

"Bond...Jane Bond"

Another photo manipulation combining a number of elements to create a final image. It was accomplished by the extensive use of "masks" to blend the elements. This image was inspired by another artist.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Hexagon Bokeh Effect

This was a Photoshop exercise inspired by abduzeedo. It was created using a custom brush in the shape of a HEXAGON, but can be modified for nearly any shape. More interesting to me isn't the shape of the brush, but rather the lighting effects used. Those were achieved using a number of layer styles and blending modes.

Greg

Friday, March 11, 2011

Starting To Feel Like Spring !

This is a composite photo made from 2 different photos. The important part of this project was blending the model with the background. To accomplish this, several adjustment layers and masks were used to effect lighting and color balance. The photos I used were provided by faestock of deviantART.

Greg


This photo served as the background of the final picture.







This is the photo used for the model in the final composite picture. The key was to get her extracted from her background cleanly and without the kind of edges that would make her look pasted in front the background.

NEON Lighting Effect

Simple but interesting lighting effect accomplished in Photoshop.

Greg

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Despicable Me Minion

Just a little Photoshop fun. As it turns out, this little guy was one of the most difficult Photoshop projects I have yet to complete. It has over 70 layers and required many different layer styles and blending modes.

Greg

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Cosmic Goddess

The following piece of art was inspired by another artist. Since I hadn't been taking many photos lately, I was looking to do something that would allow me to "hone" my Photoshop skills as well as try a few new things.

Greg

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Winter 2011

While that might look like snow, it is NOT, that is 3 inches of sleet! I took that shot through my kitchen window at 9:00 PM. The "glistening" in the trees is from the freezing rain we had just before the sleet started to fall.

Greg