I Love Photoshop

Along with my new dSLR I treated myself to Photoshop. I love photography and can't wait to take it a little further, thank you Photoshop for getting me a step closer. The main picture on my blog was one I set up. Yes... we really do have that many pairs of jeans. Crazy thing is those are just the kids jeans, no adult ones in the whole lot of them. Good grief Charlie Brown.

Here is the "before".

And here is the "after".

Any suggestions on what to do with all those worn out jeans? Advice welcome!

Very Very Interesting

My dear lineman got me a dSLR camera for my birthday. Actually he said just to just go get one, same thing really. I picked myself out a Nikon D80 and couldn't wait for the day it arrived. When UPS showed up I think the guy was a little nervous that I was going to hug him - hey I was excited, what can I say? I unpacked it with the excitement of a little boy opening up a toy on Christmas. I carefully unwrapped each item and oooed and awwwwed over every little thing. I put the battery on the charger first thing. Then I inserted the memory card and waited for the battery to be ready........... waiting...... waiting....... waiting..... FINALLY!


So I was off on my new journey with a SLR. Well, let's back up a few.... I had been reading and reading for more than a month trying to assimilate the information on shutter speeds, apertures, F-stops, you name it. I figured I would at least have some idea what I was doing.

The first few pictures I just set the camera to Auto. Humpf, what kind of fun is that? Why did I buy a nice SLR if I was only going to put it on Auto? So I switched the camera to Shutter speeds and started snapping. Oh my oh my. All I can say is thank you to the people that developed the digital camera. If I had to pay for film I wouldn't have taken another picture. I must have taken 100 bad pictures in that very first day! No kidding.

Most of those pictures I chose to delete - you're welcome. But there was this one that I chose to save. Check it out.

My crazy little cowpoke would not even so much as slow down for me to take his picture. With that slow shutter speed I managed to catch what looks like a ghost in the pic. Very interesting for sure.

• Camera: Nikon D80
• Exposure: 1 second
• F-stop: f/13
• ISO: 400