Two Very Special Prints at my website
These prints are within my Gallery called Building and Architecture and are titled 'Icy Fort' and within my Collection 'Plants in my Lens' you'll find 'White Oak in Fog'. I am building a collection of images from Fort Vancouver but slowly as I work on them.
White Oak in FogThis image 'White Oak in Fog' is very special not only to myself, but to the entire Clark County community. This great oak it is estimated by some to have been here, before it was lost to root rot and had to be removed, for some 170-180 years, living during the same era of the Hudson Bay Fur Company's occupation of the original Fort Vancouver itself.
Icy Fort by Rich Collins
As for the Icy Fort print, this is an image I took in the Winter of 2007, showing the Fort Blacksmith Shop, a still active and working blacksmith shop, which continues to be staffed with employee as well as many volunteer blacksmiths, some in training and some having a long history with the Fort. You'll note the Blacksmith Shop to the left, then just ahead the Indian Trade Store and off in the distance is the Fur Warehouse. This was a day so cold few visitors braved the bitter chill so I took the opportunity to shoot this scene. The National Park is so popular last years visitor count hit just over a million visitors locally and from all over the world.
I hope you enjoy viewing these as much as I had creating them. If you choose to follow the link here to my Store you'll find it very easy to view because of your interest in history, or you can purchase one of these. Enjoy your visit and thanks for viewing Shooting Outside Gallery
2 comments:
I have a question about shooting portraits. Which setting would be a good one to use to obtain a kind of soft tone on my subjects?
Thanks 4 ur time.
That can be difficult to accomplish out of the camera, because it is the lens' job to focus on your subject and do so cleanly and sharply. However there are tutorials for creating this effect, you must have some image manipulation application, such as Photoshop or Irfinview (free). Or you can download Picasa, as they have some limited tools for softening. Other than that Lens Baby sells a Soft Focus lens, http://www.lensbaby.com/optics-softfocus.php A very old trick that film shooter used to use was to run vaseline around the edges of the lens glass but the center stayed sharp, kind of a messy risky technique. Thanks for the question.
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