Playing With Photoshop!

I'm just trying to get more comfortable with Photoshop and Camera Raw. I will try to update this every time I do something new!

I made a ripe banana...not so ripe

Ever seen a blue apple?

How about a green tiger?

Purple horse?

And some more...

Near And Far : Ansel Adams

Just thought I'd post these on my blog :)
All taken by me on my vacation to the lovely country of Ireland. So Pretty!

Photoshopping My Bad Images!

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Big Project!

1. Ansel Adams : The Camera
By: Ansel Adams & Robert Hardy Baker
Published by: Little Brown and Company
About: Ansel Adams
2. Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape
By: Galen A. Rowell & E. Migdail
Published by: Sierra Book Clubs
About: Galen A. Rowell
3. Beyond Portraiture: Creative People Photography
By: Bryan Peterson
Published by: Amphoto Books
About: Bryan Peterson
4. The Photographer's Eye
By: by John Szarkowski, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, William Klein, &  Lee Friedlander
Published by: Museum of Modern Art
About: Walker Evans, Paul Strand, William Klein, &  Lee Friedlander
5. This is the American Earth
By: Ansel Adams & Nancy Newhall
Published by: Random House, Inc.
About: Various Photographers 
*6. The Jump Artist
By: Austin Ratner
Published by: Bellevue Literary Press
About: Philippe Halsman
7. Masters of Photography : Paul Strand
By: Aperture
Published by: Aperture
About: Paul Strand
8.  A Life In Photography
By: Edward Steichen
Published by: Doubleday Books
About: Edward Steichen
9. Walker Evans : Masters of Photography
By: Aperture
Published by: Aperture
About: Walker Evans
10. Harry Callahan : Masters of Photography
By: Aperture
Published by: Aperture
About: Harry Callahan
11. Alfred Stieglitz
By: Aperture
Published by: Aperture
About: Alfred Stieglitz
12. Andre Kertesz
By: Aperture
Published by: Aperture
About: Andre Kertesz
13. Berenice Abbott
By: Aperture
Published by: Aperture
About: Berenice Abbott
14. Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Masters of Photography
By: Aperture
Published by: Aperture
About: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
15. Diane Arbus Magazine Work 
By:   Diane Arbus and Thomas W. Southhall
Published by: ApertureAbout:  Diane Arbus
16. Margaret Bourke-White : Photographer
By: Sean Callahan
Published by: Bulfinch Press
17. Photographs
By: Robert Capa
Published by: Aperture
About: Robert Capa
18. Vivian Maier : Out of the Shadows
By: Richard Cahan
Published by: Richard Cahan
About: Vivian Maier
19. Cape Light
By: Joel Meyerowitz
Published by: Bulfinch
About: Joel Meyerowitz
*20. Philippe Halsman's Jump Book
By: Philippe Halsman
Published by: Harry N. Abrams
About: Philippe Halsman

Eduard J. Steichen

(born March 27, 1879, Luxembourgdied March 25, 1973, West Redding, Conn., U.S.) Luxembourg-born U.S. photographer. His family immigrated to the U.S. in 1881. His early photographs were influenced by his training as a painter. He frequently used chemicals to achieve prints that resembled soft, fuzzy mezzotints or wash drawings. In 1902 he joined Alfred Stieglitz in forming the Photo-Secession, a group dedicated to promoting photography as a fine art. His style evolved from painterly Impressionism to sharp realism after World War I. His portraits of artists and celebrities from the 1920s and '30s are remarkable evocations of character. At the outbreak of World War II, Steichen was commissioned by the U.S. Navy to organize a department to photograph the war at sea. In 1955 he organized the Family of Man exhibition of 503 photographs (selected from over two million), which was seen by more than nine million people worldwide

Gertrude Kasebier

Gertrude Kasebier, while studying painting in her late thirties, shifted her interests to photography. With a minimum of professional training, she decided to become a portrait photographer and opened a studio in 1897. Success came very quickly and she was recognized as a major talent by Alfred Stieglitz who brought her into the Photo-Secessionist group and reproduced a number of her photographs in the first issue of Camera Work. Gertrude Kasebier, was well known for her work in portraits, employing relaxed poses in natural light. She emphasized the play of light and dark, and allowed the sitter to fill the frame so little room was left in the edges of the photograph. In addition, Gertrude Kasebier was very creative and talented in the printing process. Her background in painting gave her the ability to manipulate the surface of her photographs producing beautiful images that often have a painterly quality

Edward Curtis

In 1885 at the age of seventeen Edward became an apprentice photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1887 the family moved to Seattle, Washington, where Edward purchased a new camera and became a partner in an existing photographic studio with Rasmus Rothi. Edward paid $150 for his 50 percent share in the studio. After about six months, Curtis left Rothi and formed a new partnership with Thomas Guptill. The new studio was called Curtis and Guptill, Photographers and Photoengravers.

In 1895 Curtis met and photographed Princess Angeline (c. 1800–1896), aka Kickisomlo, the daughter of Chief Sealth of Seattle. This was to be his first portrait of a Native American. In 1898, three of Curtis' images were chosen for an exhibition sponsored by the National Photographic Society. Two were images of Princess Angeline, "The Mussel Gatherer", and "The Clam Digger". The other was of the Puget Sound, titled "Homeward". The latter was awarded the exhibition's grand prize and a gold medal. In that same year, while photographing Mt. Rainier, Curtis came upon a small group of scientists. One of them was George Bird Grinnell, an expert on Native Americans. Curtis was appointed Official Photographer to the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899, probably as a result of his friendship with George Bird Grinnell. Having very little formal education Curtis learned much during the lectures that were given aboard the ship each evening of the voyage. Grinnell became interested in Curtis' photography and invited him to join an expedition to photograph the Blackfeet Indians in Montana in the year 1900.