My Photo Guides

Badwater Basin Sunrise This was taken at 6:55 am in the same location as my black and white photo a couple of posts ago, captured at 7:32 pm the night before.  Shooting into the bright oncoming sunrise, I used a graduated neutral density filter to reduce the brightness of the sky and captured three bracketed exposures to improve dynamic range.  I adjusted an image in Adobe Lightroom 5.7, applied that to three exposures and sent them to Photomatix HDR (Soft 2 processing if I remember correctly) to include more shadow and highlight detail in this high contrast lighting, readjusted the resulting TIF file in Lightroom, then sent that result to OnOne Perfect Effects 9 for a final tweak. This is a large basin where a giant lake evaporated thousands of years ago, and the mineral-rich waters left a deposit of rock salt.  Wind deposits dust on the salt flats, but pools of water dissolve it into salt water, and the dirt settles to the bottom, so when the surface re-crystallizes, it becomes salt ...

How is G+ Doing For You? Are your posts getting seen?  Do you see enough of the posts that your contacts make?  How does the overall site feel? See the comments in the original post for an interesting discussion. #shakeupthestream Originally shared by Tamara Pruessner New Day's Hope I have been doing a lot of thinking about how my main stream no longer shows everyone, or even a few and their newest posts, about how my own posts get increasingly smaller interaction, and how if my posts are doing that, then everyone's are.  I think the algorithm that governs what we see and what others see of our own stuff has gotten too restrictive.  And it frustrates me to no end - especially when I have 100 new posts in my stream and most are either 24 hours old, something I have already seen (and plussed or commented) or both.  Fresh isn't happening anymore and it is FRUSTRATING. I don't normally notify anyone of my posts but for this, I am (and I am not even sure how many will get t...