A late afternoon tweet from a friend on the east coast snapped to to attention: 2010 Perseid Meteor Shower was peaking tonight! That was Thursday afternoon…denying the fact that I had a morning meeting in San Francisco on Friday, I headed out at 11:30pm Thursday night to the closest dark spot I know of to [...]
Photography from Greg A. Lato
Category Archives: Technique
Magnetic Glow (Zoom Effect)
Over the holiday’s I discovered this rural chapel in a small unincorporated area near my parents in Central Wisconsin. Lucky for me, I was driving down a back road after sunset and noticed the chapel all lighted up just off the road. The front of the Chapel had a back lighted cross that I thought [...]
Reviewing Photo Composition
Tonight on the train ride home from San Francisco, I was working on a some photos from my recent trip to the Redwoods. The first day of that trip found me in Eureka where I was able to get up early to catch sunrise over Humboldt Bay. Tonight, I was focused on four photos that [...]
Starlight Redwoods
This past weekend my wife and I got out of town and head to Northern California for some camping and hiking in the Humbold Redwood State Park. The goals of the weekend were simple: enjoy some much needed time together, explore this State Park that we have wanted to visit for years, and make some [...]
HDR And Our Expectations of Photography
This topic has been burning a hole in my head or the past two weeks. And I get a gentle reminder every few days in the form of another comment arriving in my inbox. Back around the 4th of July holiday, Mark Graf had a posting about some playing with HDR he was doing. He [...]
The Making of Not For Everyone
In my last post, Not For Everyone, I showcased a set of remixed photos using a new technique that I picked up. After asking for everyone’s guess on the technique, here is the secret. The technique is from Matt Kloskowski’s Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips blog: Surreal Edgy Effect. seanmcc guessed the technique right in the [...]
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