Steve's Pics

2011-10-09 Thanksgiving Soccer at McLean

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:52:45 +0000

Girls U10 Soccer 2011-10-02

admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:48:59 +0000

Jazz: Sax and Guitar

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:53:45 +0000

Took this shot a long time ago…and while I always liked the tight crop, I wasn’t happy with the colours/exposure…Now I am better at the PS thing, and I was able to tweak…de-saturate and darken the clothes and background, and allow the instruments and hands to pop.

PoCo Soccer, 2011-09-25

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Soccer in Newton, 2011-09-25

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:02:50 +0000

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U15 Boy’s gold – Poco United vs. Metro Ford Nitro 2~1 for Poco

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:56:29 +0000

A competitive game throughout, with Ty Goff and Jeffery Slater setting up Patrick Rickaby of Poco United for the first goal of the game early in the second half. Shortly after Nitro tied it up, Jeffery Slater scored just under the bar from about 25 yards out to make it a 2~1 game. Poco goalie Kyle Buzzard made a number of great saves, including a diving save to his right, late in the game to preserve the win. Other standouts were Matthew Bosa and Ethan Kazemir playing solid on the back line.

Elison Provincial Park, on Okanagan Lake, Vernon, British COlumbia, Canada

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:10:00 +0000

Nice short hike through Elison Provincial Park…Beautiful park, beautiful day…it was hard to take a bad picture!! So much colour, and interesting textures all around me…

Hanging out in Vernon

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:20:41 +0000

Visiting my brother in the city of Vernon, in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Fabulous couple of days, the weather was perfect…sunshine, but not blistering hot. Caught these few shots just as we hung out…beautiful country! Sunflowers, Pumpkins, Blueberries, and cows, oh my!

Hike at Belcarra

admin — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:46:22 +0000

Wonderful hike with the family at Belcarra park, in Beautiful British Columbia….These shots show some of the things my “EYE” saw on the way…snapped a few shots, and then ran ahead to catch up with the rest of the family!

Stumped again

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:34:48 +0000

Just another stump from Rolley lake…with HDR treatment.

Stumped

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:44:48 +0000

Just a stump…at a campground we were camping at (Rolley Lake, in Beautiful British Columbia). Used three images, and HDR process to combine the images into this result…lots of detail in this one.

Lunch Hour Walk

admin — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:50:17 +0000

On one of my lunch hour walks…camera in hand…never know what you ma see/notice. I must have walked past these 100’s of times, but this time they caught my eye…snapped a few shots, some tweaking in PS to get a more dramatic effect…and this is the result. One thing I have learned (over and over again…) always have your camera in hand, cuz you never know what you may see….and why not try a shot or two? Even if it is not perfect, you may learn something, or you may even find a gem amongst the snapshots!

New Car!!!

admin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:12:51 +0000

No, It’s not mine…a friend bought a “new” car…a gorgeous 1966 Super Sport Chevelle…Sun was shining, and I happened to have my camera with me. Pictures were good (I thought), but I “spiffed” them up a bit in post processing…boosted the contrast, soft light overlay, and boosted the saturation to get that almost surreal “pop”…let me know what you think! Some may think I went too far… and in fact I “pushed” these more than I normally do…cuz I could, and it appealed to me…so there blpbplbplbplbpl!

Just another sunset…over Green Lake

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:07:59 +0000

Took MANY shots of this, and I think this was the best….I cloned out a few clouds out of the top of the image, as I found they were “closing in”…The sun and the reflection are blown out…taking the picture later, with the sun lower in the sky would help this, but unfortunately very shortly after this picture, the sun went behind the clouds, so this was as good as it gets!

Clouds

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:52:27 +0000

Many pictures this time, in succession…387 pictures in fact! Taken from my back deck at intervals of 15 seconds and played back at 20fps….that’s 300 times normal speed!!! WuHoo!

Fireworks! Happy Birthday Canada!!

admin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:01:02 +0000

Canada Day celebrations always end up in fireworks…and that is always a great excuse to get the camera out! This is a compilation of 6 images I snapped July 1, 2011…Let me know what you think!

Cute little Chipmonk

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:11:39 +0000

Revisited this picture from a while back…I always liked the shot, but there were cigarettes in the foreground that I did not like…well I finally got around to cleaning them up, and this is the result.

Flowing Water, Log, leaves, 5 pictures and two filters

admin — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:50:36 +0000

This image used all of my “tricks”…this is my first “real” HDR. Tripod and 5 images taken with a ND filter, and a polarizing filter….followed by PS tweaking… I went through several versions of this image, but I think this slightly de-saturated version is my favourite. You can see the other versions I tried in my Etsy store… StevesPhoto.Etsy.com