Another pic of one of my favorite trees
I have shown you this tree at least twice now, but it looks different every time I go for a walk on Ridge Road.
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More photos of the MLK Celebration
MC D.L. Richardson
Rogue Valley Gospel Choir
Mary Ferrell is the founder and Executive Director of Maslow Project
Rogue Valley Gospel Choir
Mt. Ashland Ski Area reopens
After taking a few weeks off due to lack of snow, Mt. Ashland Ski Area opened up again this morning thanks to the snow that began on Saturday night and is continuing to fall.
Photos from the Martin Luther King Jr. event at the Historic Ashland Armory
The standing-room-only audience at the Historic Ashland Armory prepares for the celebration
Ben Baden raps about Dr. King
Sign language rapping
I should have taken a video of the lady doing the sign language while Ben Baden was doing his Martin Luther King Jr. rap. A single photo can’t capture how entertaining her performance was.
Flag Team and Teen Theatre of Crater High School
RAW vs. JPEG
from RAW file with minor post processing in Photoshop - skin color is more natural and background contains less noise, also more details in face and hair
I have had cameras that have the capability to shoot in RAW for over four years now. However, every time I have taken RAW photos I have done nothing with them. I have tried to convert them to .jpg format without much success. Usually my out-of-camera .jpg looked better than my converted RAW image that I worked on for 5-10 minutes.
Today, however, I believe I have made a breakthrough. These .jpgs didn’t look very good no matter what I did in Photoshop to them so I struggled with the RAW images and finally came up with something better than the original. What do you think?
from jpg (with minor post processing in Photoshop)
from jpeg with minor Photoshop processing
from RAW file with minor Photoshop processing - you can see John's face again and less noise
This second photo is of John Javna. He spoke at the Ashland Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Celebration. He is a major reason why we have ScienceWorks in Ashland. My son loves his Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers. On this occasion he delivered a message about the Ashland Food Project.
Winter Scene in Lithia Park
Ashland's Lithia Park in the snow
We finally have a bit of precipitation going on this week. Today’s photo is from my Sunday morning walk through Lithia Park while it was snowing a couple days ago.
Ashland Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration
I took today’s photo today at the 24th Annual Ashland Martin Luther King Junior Holiday Celebration. I’ll post some more photos from today’s event over the coming week or two.
Tokina 11-16mm evening panorama
Ashland, Oregon just after sunset
Today’s photo is one of the first I took with a new lens–the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X 116 Pro DX Autofocus Lens for Nikon. I tried to stitch (photomerge) three images together to get about 200 degrees worth of Ashland, but Photoshop was not willing. Perhaps I’ll try to do it manually in Photoshop.
Mt. Ashland is to the left of center. Wagner Butte is to the right of center. Ashland High School had something going on at the football field so the lights were on and that caused the brightness to the left of center. The brightness near the far right is the Ashland Springs Hotel. The lines in the lower-left half on the bottom are the cars going up and down I-5.
I took this about 15 minutes after sunset on my D7000 at f/4 for 30 seconds at ISO 100. I cropped the bottom and top off the 11mm picture to give it more of a panorama feel.
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Autumn leaf floating
Today’s photo is from fall of 2010, and the location for this picture was the swimming reservoir in Lithia Park.
Mt. Shasta in January?
Mt. Shasta
This is what Mt. Shasta should look like from Mt. Ashland in early November. In early December of 2010 Mt. Shasta looked like this. However, I took today’s photo less than a week ago. There is very little snow on Mt. Shasta (or Mt. Ashland), and there hasn’t been any new snow since either.