About bottleredhead  

Hello.
A little bit about me:

Displaced San Franciscan, I am married with 2 really talented and gifted girls, (you will see them in my photostream)

I like my cameras, but I like my filters more. I like the odd, novel and quirky. I will take 2 dozen shots of a butterfly and throw out 23 of them. I will also take 2 dozen shots of a cupcake and keep all 24 of them. Go figure. I will be better at photography tomorrow. virtually everything I post is straight out of the camera and only cropped.


I am not here to collect a wow for a mediocre shot or bravos or invites or a fave for the random lucky shot where the lighting was perfect, by no manipulation of my own.
I am here because I learn something by looking at your photos,See, I want to learn how to manipulate. I see affects and angles, lighting tricks, play with shadows, composition idea, apature and exposure ideas and I like the support and encouragement of my contacts that look at everything I post and laugh with me because they want to know me better!


I am not a big fan of Photoshop, I am however a big fan of good photography by it's own right TTL skills!
.....That's what makes photography so amazing , what a dichotomy it is also it's one failing.

Photoshop has made professionals of computer savvy mediocre point and shoot picture takers.

What makes a photographer....?
......IT IS SKILL AND SIGHT .....the eye to see how to apply that DOF or adjust the white balance.

If you know how many stops the palm of your hand is from middle gray or you long for the next Sunny 16, and have dared to carry more filters than lenses in your bags.... then I bow to you!
ROCK ON FRIENDS!
-Peace!

-Love and Prayers!
To see all of my photos displayed on just a couple of pages go here:
www.flickrleech.net/user/bottleredhead





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I like to think of myself as fairly practical and reasonable but recent reports of pirating pictures of children and posting them elsewhere have made me question why I am in your contact list and you haven't any photos........If that's the case and I have deleted you from the list of people that call me a contact then wonder no more! -C

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