Ok I know I've not posted lately but I've found myself with more stuff to do with not enough hours in the day to do them. I've been experimenting with some new post processing techniques dealing with contrast and skin retouching. It just so happened to be timed after a shoot with Crystle and her cute daughter pictured below. The photos are sorta in reverse order as the first one is toward the end of the shoot when she was beginning to finally warm up to me so much to the point that she wanted to be inside the camera, as this shot is not cropped at all except to 8x10 aspect ratio. Anyway as you can see I'm working to make those big blue eyes stand out and in the last image with her mom I boosted the yellow contrast range quite a bit.

Next few shots were from today when I decided to see if I could call in a couple of owls that are said to be in these woods. I've never attempted to do this so of course no owl sightings but did see some beautiful colors and a decent little buck. He's hard to spot in the first photo so see if you can find him and in the second he's more visible although still obscured by vegetation. These shots were from a tree stand in which he skirted around me at approximately 75 yards out the whole time. It is now bow season in Ohio and the bucks are starting to make their rub lines and I even seen what appeared to be a couple of scrapes.

Looking over a couple of magazines a fellow photographer lent me I've found some new information and things I'm going to try out. One is a contest in which the prize would be an all expense paid trip to a photography conference in Las Vegas. I'm not sure what the odds are of winning but it would be nice. The other is information on some upcoming conferences in and around Ohio which I hope to be able to attend at least some of them to learn and develop some new ideas.