Nov 24 2009

Happy Accidents



I was just working on some images making print ready files for sending to my printer (White House Custom Color). I’ve made a template in Lightroom’s Print Module that (when a properly cropped) makes a jpeg file ready to upload and print. However, the below portrait format print image was accidentally used with a landscape template for a 5×7 greeting card, and them I was left with the bottom image, which, after realizing what had happened, I instantly liked. This led to a good 20 minutes or so of making different versions and playing around with the crop. Freeman Patterson has a great exercise where he has you place your tripod in one spot and make a 10-20 images. Its a fantastic exercise in seeing, and not altogether different than my little cropping exercise.




Next time I am at Schoodic Point (the location of these photos) I will return with fresh eyes, inspired by a happy accident.



Jul 13 2009

The Bubbles

The view of the bubbles from the south end of Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park. A great place to end a hike—they have fantastic tea and popovers, and kids can run around on the lawn and rumpus. This photo was taken with a Canon G10 on a tripod while I stood in the middle of the pond to get this perspective.