It's been a while since I've put up any new textured photography pieces. So the other night I got to work on a photograph of a Nautilus that I've had in the que for a long time now. This is a bit different than my other pieces… More "still life" I guess you could say.
The textures amusingly (to me anyway) are mostly from Ho Chi Min's palace in Vietnam. I took tons of images of textures from the walls and floors of his palace when i was there last year.
The Colorado Rocky Mountains are home to millions of acres of Aspen trees. Come Fall, those Aspens explode into amazing expanses of fluorescent yellows, fiery reds and brilliant oranges. With their uniquely textured white bark contrasting against the colored leaves, the Aspen trees of Colorado rank as one of the most beautiful Fall photographic destinations.
The new Fall photography tours page has just gone up on my tour site if you want to check it out (Colorado Fall Colors Photography Workshops) – At the moment is only describes the general "on demand" tours, but there will soon be added multiple "scheduled group" tours which not only give you fun people to shoot with, but keeps your costs down as well. So make sure to bookmark it and/or just keep this blog in your feed as new information is released (rss, twitter and facebook).
How to Stack: Stacking is a method of organization which helps you to bundle "like" images together. That being images which are extremely similar in content, part of a multiple shot series (example: HDR series, time lapse series or rapid fire series). The idea being if you have dozens of images that are nearly the same or need to be together to make sense, then why fill up your entire screen with them all. A single representative image will tell you all you need to know about the remaining "x" number of images.
To stack images you simply select all the images in a series or group which you wish to add. You do this by clicking on an image (hold ctrl pc /alt mac) to continue selecting multiple images. You can also select a large group of images in order by clicking the first images (hold shift) and then bookend the entire series by clicking again on the last image.
Once your images are highlighted, you can right click > stacking > group into stack. You'll now see all your images compress into a single image with an "x of y" box in the corner showing you the total number of images in the stack.
Stacking Automatically: So what if you've shot hundreds of photographs and every photograph is part of a series?
Recently I did a survey trip for my latest Photography Tour ("San Luis Valley and the Great Sand Dunes National Park Photo Tour"). I needed to make certain that my plan was doable and filled with the quality imagery that I had planned out. The only way to do that is to take my own tour, and make sure it all falls into place as it should.
Over three days I visited The Great Sand Dunes National Park, San Luis Lakes State Park, Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge and Zappata Falls. I was lucky enough to taking this trip during the large crane migration which makes stops at the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge. Thousands of cranes make this area a stopping point as they migrate North for summer. (Read more to see the photos…)