Yearly Archives: 2009

Oceano Dunes

At the beach.

Oceano Dunes, near Grover Beach in central coastal California, is most famous for the great work done there by Edward Weston in the first half of the twentieth century. It’s a fine beach which, of all things, allows cars to enter for a small fee. Odd.


Oceano Dunes. 5D, 15mm Fisheye.

Random posts

Fun reading.

Have time to read and want to feed that photography thing in your head?

Look below and check out Random Reading which highlights eight posts, chosen at random, from the history of wonderful writing on this blog ….

No picture today – just a lot of great history!

Sunset rocks

At the beach.


5D, 100mm macro, ring flash

It’s good to return to photography after all that recent tech talk!

I used that really clever technique Martin Evening illustrates in his book where you drag the Target Adjustment tool button to the area you want affected then simply drag it up and down on the picture until it looks right, like so:


Target adjustment tool in Lightroom

In this case I used it on the highlights.

See page 285 of his splendid book.