Got my R1 speedlight kit and gave it a whirl out in the garden. I definitely need to learn how to control the highlights on shiny objects like bees. I touched up the eyes on one of them, but not sure I like the result.

More playing with 'digital art'. These are a couple of shots of a dahlia in our yard I converted to high key with Lightroom.

I should get my R1C1 tomorrow, so some more macro shooting before I head up to the Smokies next week.

Went to the CNC today for some macro shooting and had a great time. Here are a few of the shots I took. I'm anxious to get my R1C1 macro speedlight setup later this week, I think it will come in real handy for the bees in particular.

Yet another digital art experiment, this time with just built in CS5 filters.

Going to head to the CNC tomorrow so hopefully I'll have a few 'real' photo to post after that. Primarily plan on using my 105mm macro, but we'll see what we see. ;-)  

Published

Just found out that this photo is going to be used as the cover of the fall edition of Smoky Mountain Living coming to your local news stand soon. :)

More playing with 'digital art'. Mostly using Topaz Simplify but a little LR tweaking too. I actually kind of like the Stratocaster one.

A couple of the Nikonians contests this month are 'digital art'. I'm not sure I'm a real big fan, but played around with Topaz Simplify and came up with these:

So far I haven't tried to get real abstract, but it's kind of fun to play with so I'll probably do more experimentation.