I finally received my new book, The Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski. My initial reaction to the book, is that it is VERY well done. I have Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual which I like, but I REALLY like this new book. I think, from what little I have read in both books, they will compliment each other very well.

I did something fun last night. Went with a friend to watch a band play, at a local bar. A friend of his, is the drummer. Another guy was shooting some pictures, and was using the on-camera flash. Every time it went off, I thought of the line from Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography Book 2. “If you have a grudge against someone, shoot them with your camera’s pop-up flash and it will even the score. After I saw him using his external flash some more, I gave him an idea I also read from the same book… to use the bounce card, in the flash, to add some catch-light to the band’s eyes. And it worked! Since I am still using a Point and Shoot at this point, a lot of my knowledge is theoretical, in that have not actually USED it yet. I was quite pleased with myself, being able to apply some knowlege that I have learned from reading my books. I try to shoot some every week, but this has not been a productive week. My favorite subject, my daughter, did not want to cooperate the other day at the park. I was kind of bummed. But, she had fun at least. I did get a couple of pictures though.

So, I am beginning to think I am in a rut… I take pictures of my daughter (ok, not so much of a rut there) and flowers… I really need to see more. But, here was kind of a cool picture I took at my parent’s house. Flower. It was kind of ho-hum, until I jazzed it up a bit, with a filter I downloaded. I really liked the orange fade across the image.