Playing with DistressedFX

I don’t much go for distressed filters these days, but I quite like Distressed FX. Distressed FX offers 19 color/treatment filters (plus Birds!) and 17 scratch layers (plus the ability to create custom scratch designs), and the ability to tune the intensity of the filters. It’s also possible to make simple tweaks to color, brightness, …

7/52-17 Cats! (and not cats…)

AKA One of these is not like the other Another week of not-really-focusing-on-shooting, and with very, very good reason that I’ll share sooner or later. I did manage to break off an hour or so on Wednesday, and another 15 minutes yesterday in order to make some pictures, and I’m thankful I got 7 that …

Phoneography Friday #3

I had an idea to create a process post, with examples from every stage of a few minutes of app play, but then I ended up liking the original image far more than anything that came after… Maybe next week. Cortex Camera takes a dozen or so images and smashes them down into a single …

365.367 Olive

Well, I shot a bunch earlier today—went by the old apartment to take loads of pictures of how nice and clean it is for when the former landlords try to charge me for cleaning it…—and kind of had to force myself to find something to shoot this afternoon. Luckily, cats are always around. Unfortunately, this …

365.340 Olive

I haven’t posted a picture of one or another of the cats of late, so I thought today’s I’mreallynotquitefeelingit picture could remedy that. It’s not quite in focus, but I doubt Olive minds much, and sof-focus techniques tend to work rather well for such beautiful subjects. D7000. Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron, maybe), in …