Posts Tagged ‘serengeti’
Gazelle on Seregenti
I remember back in the day I wasn’t any good at Photoshop (not that I’m a pro now, but have a little better understanding what does what) and I’d change around my photos, save them in the crappy edited version and overwrite the originals – bad idea. You always want to keep the originals as is – if you’re planning on gussying them up, save it as a new file. You’ll thank yourself for it.
This file was one that died on my original hard drive back in the day, but was saved on my Webshots page thankfully. Unfortunately, it was saved in a smaller format that lost a lot of the detail. One of the things you can do to bring a pixelated photo back to life is to overlay textures on top of it. You can still see some of the boxey shapes that make up pixelation, but an overlay of a nice texture can fix it up a bit (along with a few other photo processing techniques). HERE is the original.
Serengeti Backroad – Tanzania, Africa 2004
I remember we had just gotten done eating lunch on the rocks in this photo, and this shot was taken from that set of rocks. It really got me thinking about how far out there we were. Nothing for miles in any direction but rocks and brush. Not even any animals that we could see, and it was hot!
It’s odd because I usually snap landscape shots horizontally, but this is one of the few I have ever really liked when shot vertically – Also, I want to say we had a peanut butter and jelly and an apple for lunch here, which is obviously very important somehow… 
