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Topaz Labs Discount Offer

Posted on by Nick Roberts

Here’s a great offer from Topaz Labs that I thought I should share with you. As many of you are aware I’m a big fan of the entire Topaz Suite of plug-ins

For a limited period Topaz labs are offering Pictures2win members 30% Discount on any of their Plug in software including The topaz Labs Plug in Bundle Saving you a massive $89. You can purchase individual products and You can save a whopping 30% on any individual products including, Star effects, B&W Effects, Lens Effect, Topaz Adjust, Topaz Denoise,Topaz Simplify, Topaz Detail, Topaz Remask and their individual products start as little as $29.99.

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Just Go to Topaz Labs  http://www.topazlabs.com/products.html then when purchasing any of their products just enter pictures2win in the discount code offer and receive your 30% discount it’s as easy as that.

Ohio River Bridges Panorama

Posted on by Nick Roberts

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Today’s shot is stitched together from two frames I shot from Waterfront Park. I used Photoshop CS5 to stitch them together and then finished the image in NIK HDR Efex Pro. I like the way the silhouettes of the bridges give structure to the scene.

I like shooting panoramas because they allow me to include so much more of the scene than one image usually can accomplish. Panoramas take a little more time to setup and shoot but the end results are almost always greater than I could accomplish by simply cropping into a single image to produce the panorama format. 

Flaming Sky

Posted on by Nick Roberts

Today’s image was taken at Louisville’s Waterfront Park. I love the texture that the clouds produce and the silhouettes of the bridges. It is a single image that was processed in NIK HDR Efex Pro and finished in Aperture 3.

I love Louisville’s Waterfront Park and the way the bridges across the Ohio frame my shots there. On this particular evening I was able to place the sun between two piers on the left side of the Kennedy Bridge which added to the drama of the scene.

I believe a photographer needs to shoot every day; in the same way that a great musician practices every day to better control his instument. The more one uses the tools of his craft, the better artist he becomes. Photographing daily allows me to become more and more skilled at composition and using the controls of my camera.