Baby, It's Cold outside

Does cold and foggy make for a good walk? Not really but it makes kinda nifty pictures and it makes you appreciate the warm when you come back in to edit.

I really liked this straight out of the camera, but it was fun to play with it too.


ISO 800, 56 mm, f/5, 1/50

I cropped it then used CoffeeShop’s free actions for both versions.


This is the Vintage News Action but I took out the texture and the soft glow.



This is the Vintage Butterscotch Action with the layers adjusted slightly. Preferences?

MCP Project 52

The talented Jodi Friedman over at MCP Actions has started a new 52 Project and has invited everyone to join her. I have been wanting to try a 365 Project and I’m going to give it the old college try, but knowing me if I missed more than a day I would give it up as hopeless.... soooooo.... I am officially committing to Jodi’s MCP Project 52: Photo a Week. I’m even going to stick to the given theme. (And we’ll see how close I can get to 365 photos this year.)

Since the point of this project, for me, is to improve both my photography and learn at least a tiny bit of editing, (Specifically, try not to weep and gnash my teeth in frustration if every photo isn’t perfect straight out of the camera.) I will be posting both the SOC version and the edited version for each photo.

So with out further adieu here is week 1.


ISO 100, 218 mm, f/5, 1/4, Using my gorillapod and shutter release.



I cropped it to get rid of the blown out needle threader and used PW Woman’s PS Actions Sharpen and Define/Seventies Action.