Last month, I took a class with R. Mac Holbert through Santa Fe Workshops. It was a class about Fine Art Printing. It was a wonderful class. Mac teaches well, but I realized that I needed to dig into photoshop more.
The side effect of taking classes is that you get inspired to try out what you’ve learned. The usual class, makes you want to go out and make pictures, which isn’t as possible in this world of the pandemic. But Mac’s class is post processing class. So you get inspired to dig through your old photo catalog. As long as you’ve kept the original files from your camera that is. Which thankfully I do. So in the covid world those Zoom post processing class work better because you can get inspired and do something about it.
The current picture I was taken by, is a night shot from Crater Lake NP. I was trying the Nikon D810A which is adjusted for doing astrophotography. Which means that filter in front of the sensor was adjusted to allow a little more infrared, so you can see more of spectra of the stars. Since I’m not an astrophysicist, I just like the colors.
One of things that makes this picture unique, is that there were fires in Crater Lake NP, which imparted a rather unique glow. Fires of course also go into the infrared. And if you examine the Milky Way in this picture there are colors that mapped into our visual range that we normally are unable to see.