In the comments for the original post of this image, many of you expressed interest in seeing how it was created. I’m still very new to Photoshop and by no means to I claim to be an expert. I’m sure there are better and more efficient methods for doing this but these steps got me where I wanted to go. This is the first image tutorial I’ve posted so I hope that I have included enough information and you are able to follow along....

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With the end of 2011 upon us, I decided to gather images from this past year and create a 2012 calendar featuring landscapes and waterfalls from the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia, East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. The 2012 Appalachian Landscapes Wall Calendar is a collection of images showing the diversity and beauty of this region and contains some of my most popular and memorable images. The calendar measures...

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Overview of the Cokin Filter System After weeks of looking for a good set of inexpensive filters, I finally found a pretty good deal on eBay and decided to go for it. The set that I went for are the Cokin P series. The Cokin system requires a mount, a ring to fit it to your lens and filters. I purchased my kit from two different sellers on eBay, one for the mount and ring and another for the filters. In the end, I spent just under $40 for the...

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Coming off vacation is always rough and this past week has been no exception! It’s been pretty hectic with really no time to get out and shoot after work. As a result, I’ve spent some time catching up on some neglected projects. 500px I chose what I consider to be my 10 best images and uploaded them to my 500px account. I’m as new to this site as anyone else and I’m still trying to figure out how to best interact with the...

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Wow, this is already shaping up to be a busy year! This week brought two more firsts for me, my first meetup with a photographer that I met through social networking and my first video review. Martinsville Car Farm If you’ve been following any of my posts this week then you already know that I met up with Fairfax, Virginia photographer Don Rosenberger last weekend in the rural town of Martinsville, Virginia. Don and I met through Twitter...

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I have never owned a ball head tripod and was a bit reluctant to move to one for some reason but after hearing how versatile they could be I knew I had to get one when the time came for a new tripod. A few weeks ago, my old pan head tripod gave up the ghost and I was forced to start the search for a replacement. I posed the question to all of my Twitter friends and received a several suggestions but in the end decided to go with the Induro AKB2...

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