Mid-Term

All of these pictures were taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ3 camera at various places in Billings, Montana.

This picture was taken at River Front Park  at 36.6mm ISO 200 f/4.5 and shutterspeed at 1/13 of a second. I edited this picture in Lightroom by cropping out some of the top and bottom of the picture and lowering the clarity to make the ducks stand out better. I also raised the vibrance and lowered the saturation.

This photo was taken at Norm's Island at 27.2mm ISO 160 f/3.5 and 1/30 second shutter speed. I edited the picture in Lightroom and lowered clarity to -7, raised vibrance to +7 and lowered saturation to -13.

I took this picture at 36.6mm ISO 100 f/4.5 and 1/40 second shutter speed at River Front Park. In Lightroom I cropped the picture to better focus on the birds and edited out the middle bird because that one was out of focus. That is all I felt needed to be done.

This photo was taken at 19.4mm ISO 80 f/3.7 and 1/80 second at Norm's Island. In Lightroom the clarity was increased to +13, vibrance increased to +64, the aqua heightened to +15 and the blue decreased to -13.

This photo was taken at 54mm ISO 293 f/5.6 and shutter speed at 1/30 of a second at Pioneer Park. I edited the picture in Lightroom by lowering clarity and raising vibrance and saturation.

This picture was taken at 14.5mm ISO 160 f/3.5 and shutter speed at 1/50 of a second at River Front Park. In Lightroom the picture's clarity was raised +27, vibrance raised +36 and saturation lowered at    -18. I really like the green clover poking out of the red, yellow and brown leaves, I tried to make the clover a four-leaf clover but was unsuccessful.

This picture was taken at 9.9mm ISO 80 f/3.1 and shutter speed at 1/20 of a second at River Front Park. I edited this picture in Lightroom by raising the vibrance and saturation and enhancing the color. I wanted the pink in the sunset to stand out.

This picture was taken at 9.9mm ISO 80 f/3.1 and the shutter speed at 1/3 of a second. I edited the picture in Lightroom to raise the clarity, vibrance and saturation and to enhance the color. I wanted the trees to look very "fall-y" I also tried to make the green trees greener and the sky look more lively but was unable and mostly just made the road look blue and grainy.

This picture was taken at 16.1mm ISO 125 f/3.5 and shutter speed at 1/30 of a second at River Front Park. Lightroom was used to edit the picture where I raised the clarity to +27, the vibrance to +29 and the saturation to +22. I am not a big fan of reflection pictures but I liked this one I took because the real life tree looks more barren than the reflected tree and I wanted to show that after editing.

This picture was taken at 7mm ISO 80 f/5.8 and 1/250 second shutter speed at River Front Park. In Lightroom I made the picture black and white and raised the clarity. I decided to make the picture black and white because I thought it looked nice.

This sunset was taken at River Front Park at 6.1mm ISO 100 f/2.8 and shutter speed at 1/60 of a second. In Lightroom I cropped a bit off of the top, raised the contrast, vibrance, clarity, saturation and enhanced the color. I wanted to show off all of the colors of the sunset and I wanted them to stand out against the dark landscape.

This picture was taken at 27.4mm ISO 200 f/4.6 and a shutter speed at 1/6 of a second at Pioneer Park. In Lightroom I raised the clarity and lowered the saturation and vibrance.

This picture was taken at 3.6mm ISO 400 f/4.5 and shutter speed at 1/30 of a second at River Front Park. In Lightroom I raised the vibrance to4 and the saturation to +13, I wanted the red to stand out strongly against the green.

This photo was taken at Norm's Island at 17.2mm ISO 160 f/3.5 and shutter speed at 1/30 of a second. In Lightroom I lowered clarity to -7, raised vibrance to +7 and lowered saturation to +22.

This sunrise was taken at River Front Park at 27.6mm ISO 160 f/4.1 and shutter speed at 1/30 of a second. Lightroom was used to raise vibrance to +20, lower saturation to -2, raise contrast to +49, and enhance the reds to -35, oranges to -25, purples to -35 and magentas to -52.  This was only the second sunrise I have seen in my life (I'm a night owl) and wanted my photograph to capture all of the beautiful colors well and for the colors to stand out against a dark landscape.

You've Got to Fight for Your Right to Party.

This photo of two birds fighting was taken by Edwin Kats in the Netherlands.

The birds stand out nicely against the brown background and the subject is focused. I like the contrast between one birds black beak and the other's white beak. I also like that he captured the birds with their wings up like that in their fight. You can find more of his images here.

Furry Creature

I found this squirrel at the park, he was being so cute and squirrely I had to take pictures.

The squirrel was being very photogenic that day which was great for me. The pictures didn't come out that great, though, because I had to zoom in very far.