I am a child of the 50s. I clearly remember when the TV (a tiny screen housed in a huge cabinet) first came into our house in 1955. Ten years later, I was delighted to own a battery-powered transistor radio that crackled out the Beach Boys and the Beatles from hundreds of miles away. I wrote my college papers on a portable Smith Corona typewriter and thought the heavens had opened when I got an electric self-correcting typewriter sometime in the mid-70s, about the same time I picked up a 35 mm camera for the first time. Jump forward at least three decades and I’m playing with what feels like magic with my Nikon D90 and my little MacBook while watching a DVR’d movie on my flat-screen TV. Tonight, I thought I’d see what I could do with the magic of Lightroom and Photoshop.
Black & White Mist on the Pond
I used layer to create the image below. I used a shot of the full moon (taken from the street outside my city condo) and a boring image of a a high-desert hill. However, I don’t know how to use layers. I wanted the moon higher in the sky & more to the right. I also wanted to manipulate the hues of the moon to reflect what a rising moon typically looks like — a little more warm. When I figure out how to use layers, I will re-post this image.
Full Moon Over Desert Mountain
It is like magic!
I am just beginning to learn how to use all of this, but am having tremendous fun.
cool. I love the comparison you make between now and the 50′s!
Thanks. I am always amazed at the changes I’ve witnessed in my lifetime.
Golden oldies/moments.
Aren’t they, though? Did you have a little record player that played 45s?
Yes!!!!! It was a Philips and you could use it with batteries also( we did not have power on the farm) I took it with me to the hostel while I was studying for a teacher- we would put it as loud as we could so everybody could hear it! Those were the days my friend!
Sweet!
You did good and advanced with the times. I’m part of the same generation. Technology is wonderful.
BE ENCOURAGED BE BLESSED!
Even though I say I long for the “simpler” times, I would not want to give up all of my techno toys.
It’s amazing how far we’ve come with technology. Just wait and see what pops into our reality this year. Hold on to your hat!
I am always amazed.
Hahaha that is the cutest blog I’ve ever read! Haha I love it
I’m not able to see your second picture though! I’ll have to try again later 
thanks for the smile! I wish I lived in your time period, I think people would appriciate things a lot more.
WOW! I like your response. Try the second picture again; I might have been editing at the time.
I love your photos!
Thank you so much for the compliment.
Yeah I see it now! Beautiful! I have yet to take a good pic of the moon, its just too cloudy here still lol
When you are ready, use a tripod, at least 300 mm lens, 200 ISO, 1/250, f/8.0.
awesome! Thank you so much! That will help me a lot
Beautiful post my friend
Thank you!
Oh, yes, please give us progress reports, for, like you, this’s all magic to me and the only way to catch up is to learn from others – I’ll never be able to teach myself everything the ‘youngness’ take for granted.
I still haven’t figured it out. It just might take a workshop to do it. I’ll let you know.
And there I was thinking you were leaping the aeons of tech-time to mastery in two easy steps:)
I played with it last night and couldn’t even repeat what I had done previously. Nope! No leaping here. Barely crawling, I think.
Maybe it’s three steps?:)
I’m chuckling
I could very easily have written that paragraph, with just a couple of changes:
“I am a child of the ’60s. I clearly remember when the TV (a tiny screen housed in a huge cabinet) first came into our house in 1966. Two years later, I was delighted to own a battery-powered transistor radio that crackled out the Beach Boys and the Beatles from hundreds of miles away. I wrote my college papers on a portable Smith Corona typewriter and thought the heavens had opened when I got an electric self-correcting typewriter sometime in the late-’70s, about the same time I picked up a 35 mm camera for the first time. Jump forward at least three decades and I’m playing with what feels like magic with my Canon 550D while listetning to the Beach Boys and Beatles on my digital music computer system. Tonight, I thought I’d see what I could do with the magic of Lightroom and Photoshop.”
Ooops. Now I guess I have to go do something with Lightroom and Photoshop. lol
Fascinating…the similarities
Wow Mona.. Excellent job.. I am just starting to get a little comfortable with how layers work and what you can do with them. You did a fantastic job and I love the final image!