On May 3, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On May 3, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Brian Lawson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> <http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/localScene/pages/InsideThePipe.html>
>> --
>> Brian
> 
> All three of those are gorgeous. The Badwater one is really amazing...almost 
> composited looking, if I hadn't seen such things IRL myself. 
> 
> The tubes are really neat...kind of a departure from your usual wilderness 
> shots. I would have sworn those were metal not black PVC!
> 
> I guss I'm much more used to looking at the outside, which is dull and not 
> very reflective...

Thanks Bruce. I've been working on that Badwater shot for years, ever since it 
was taken. I just couldn't get it to look the way I wanted. Even my Photoshop 
mentor tried with me a couple of times and gave up on it.

The tubes were a fortuitous accident. We just happened to be driving past them, 
on a road rarely taken, at just the right time of day for the sunlight to be 
shinning down them and for once, I was not doing the driving and caught the 
glimmer inside them out the corner of my eye as we sped past at 60MPH. I had 
dad stop and turn back so we could photograph them.

Plus, the software I used to process them, Perfect Effects 8, is being given 
away for free. It's normally $99. I just got the email with the link yesterday 
so I downloaded it and was playing with it on the Death Valley shot when Dad 
called to ask if I wanted to go on a photo expedition. We didn't get any of the 
flowers we set out after but I like the tubes much better. :)

Here's the link for the Perfect Effects 8 if anyone is interested: 
<http://www.ononesoftware.com/landing/pe8offer/>. I don't know how long they 
will be giving it away.
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Brian

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