Gone Hiking

I decided to spend a portion of the Memorial Day holiday hiking through the gigantic Redwoods in Muir Woods National Monument.

I only came out with a handful of shots that I was remotely happy with, and even so, I'm not super proud of them.

I had a hard time with the exposures, and felt that most of my pictures came out either way overexposed, or way underexposed.  Most of these here have been manipulated pretty well in Photoshop.

Anyway, all that to say I really need to force myself to practice more, and get comfortable shooting in any lighting condition.

Hope you enjoy the trees.

At The Water's Edge

I got off work a little early today, so I thought I'd wander around the campus to see if there was anything interesting to shoot.  Here's what I got.

Hope you like!

Every Day Beauty

Here are some shots I took outside of work today, and even a couple I grabbed on the drive home. While I know that close up shots of flowers, grass, trees and clouds are all pretty cliche by this point, I just can't help but find them interesting.

I'll try to veer away from the subject matter in the future.

Hope you enjoy.

Finally!!!

So thanks to the input of a couple different people, I think I was finally able to figure out the problem with the colors in my uploaded photos. It turns out that by default they were being brought into Photoshop with the Embedded Adobe RGB (1998) color profile, when to get accurate web colors, it should be converted to the working profile which is sRGB. Then, instead of just saving the files the regular way, I chose the option "Save for Web", and saved them out as JPG's with "Very High Quality".

Instead of taking down my old post and replacing the images, I figured I'd go ahead and just repost this time so hopefully you can see the difference between the two.
It may seem like a slight difference in the colors, but I think it makes a huge difference in what you see. Open them in separate windows and compare if you like.

Thanks Rebbaz, Dad, and this guy