One of the coolest things to do when taking pictures of water features is blur the body of water while maintaining crisp focus on the stationary foreground or background. With a DSLR camera, it’s quite easy. So easy, in fact, that an extremely non-expert like myself can do it! We use a Canon Rebel T3i…Continue reading How to Blur Water in Your Digital Images
How To Watermark a Digital Photo with Photoshop Elements 8
You’ve seen it before, many times, on pictures throughout the world wide web. A seemingly transparent title or symbol positioned on an image. If you have Photoshop Elements 8 and want to do the same with text on your own images, what follows is a step by step procedure. Why watermark your photos? Businesses that…Continue reading How To Watermark a Digital Photo with Photoshop Elements 8
Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls
I have to admit, I have been going to Niagara Falls, Ontario on daytrips since the early 1970’s. I have never been on the Maid of the Mist until just a few years ago. There was always the impression that the boat trip to the base of Niagara Falls was much too costly and the…Continue reading Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls
Videos from the Detroit People Mover
Finally, I edited and put together all the video clips that Angie and I took back in March from our tour of downtown Detroit, Michigan on the People Mover. We took two laps on the 2.9 mile loop, one with the inside view and one with the outside view. The People Mover is an elevated train…Continue reading Videos from the Detroit People Mover