Kitty Stand-Off

Funny photo of my cat protecting her turf from the neighbor's cat outside.

Your Name in Pictures

There are lots of places where you can order a picture collage of your name made out of pictures of objects that look like letters, but I decided it would be more fun to do it myself. As a quick project, I photographed a bunch of items around the house that looked like the letters "R-O-S-A-T-I." In Lightroom, I edited my first photo with a B&W preset that I liked, applied a small post-crop vignette, and cropped the photo 1:1. I synced these settings to the other photos of of the other "letters" in my name so they all has the same general look and feel. After some quick adjustments to the crops, I was ready for printing. In the print module, I laid out the page to landscape and the letters in a single row with 6 columns with the contact sheet set as my layout style. Just add or remove columns for the number of letters in your name. Play around with the size of your cells to get the proper spacing between cells. The trick here was getting the letters to appear in the correct order. In the filmstrip at the bottom of the Print module, you have to click on the picture itself (not the border of the picture) in order to drag the photo the correct place in order. Of course, you can always print each photo individually and frame them across a custom mat. Above is my final result. It is not great, but was a fun exercise to get the creative juices flowing.

Long time away

It has been a long time since I have posted to this site. A lot of things have been going on since my last post and I never really felt like posting because nobody actually reads this anyway. It seems like this is really just my own personal diary that is public but remains anonymous through obscurity. Anyway, I digress.

In the past year I have been furthering my photography interests. I joined a local photo club and regularly meet with a number of very talented local photographers. I really enjoy their advice and generosity in sharing their insight into the world of photography. I especially enjoy learning about new gear first hand. There is no substitute for actually picking up and using a new lens or lighting setup. There is a wealth of gear and tricks and techniques that I can learn about and try without buying something on the internet and getting it home only to find out it doesn't really work for me.

I recently had some success participating in the first annual Suffolk Photo Walk. I had two photographs from the walk chosen by voters to be exhibited at the art gallery at the Suffolk Center for the Performing Arts. I had a really great time making and sharing these photos and I will post them here for future posterity. Until next time....

-Greg