Charred and Pointy

Hot Tools, May 9, 2009
Art by Fire, Seattle, Washington
Nikon D80, Nikkor 50mm f/2.8 @ f/8, 1/125s, ISO 400
Developed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3, Adobe Standard profile

The wife has a new hobby, glass blowing. In fact, right now she's at her first formal class at Art by Fire. I took this shot a few weeks ago when she was doing a one-off class there during the monthly Ballard artwalk. I warmed up the image quite a bit by enhancing the white balance and adding a little bit of split toning. I thought about going black and white, which would let the split tone really come out, but I decided to leave the original colors in without desaturating.

I've slacked a little bit when it comes to the blog and processing my photos. Haven't been shooting much, either, which is usually what drives me to post new photos. Not that I don't have lots of old ones I can work on. I'll endeavor to be better about posting, and in any case I've got a big trip coming up at the end of the month that should generate a ton of images.