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Three Huts

Jason Benz — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:20:07 +0000

These three buildings are in Negril, Jamaica. This is some of the earliest photography I had accepted for stock. I don’t know if it would be accepted for today as the agencies seem to be getting more strict or maybe the need for turquoise ocean shots allowed them to overlook the camera and jpeg quality. This image needed work in Photoshop to remove speckle.

I plan to post a few more images of the Caribbean as I copy the best content from the old website to the new blog.

This image has been accepted by Shutterstock for Stock Photography and is available for download here.

Sky Palms

Jason Benz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:37:33 +0000

These silhouetted palm trees were in Negril, Jamaica. I took this almost 10 years ago when I first started experimenting with Photography. I was using an early digital compact camera Ex-Z3 with a LCD display. This shot would be difficult with a DSLR as framing the shot is normally done with the viewfinder. Focusing the sun onto your retina is not the best way to go about improving your photography.

I plan to put up more images of the Caribbean as I move from the old website to the new blog.

This image has been accepted by Shutterstock for Stock Photography and is available for download here.

Ocean Rocks

Jason Benz — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:36:14 +0000

This image from Jamaica is one of my very first stock photos. I received an automated email from dreamstime agency saying “image has been online for more than 4 years with no downloads up to the present” and giving me the option of giving it away for free which I did. I still like the shot so I decided to give it the once over in Photoshop to see what would happen. I applied vignette to darken the edges and centre the focus. Then shamelessly went about boosting hues and generally adding interest. Original Free Image.

Caribbean Coast

Jason Benz — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:30:22 +0000

This was taken on the west coast of Jamaica in a place called Negril. The Photoshop layers I used to build up the image are below.

Jamaica Sunset

Jason Benz — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:58:58 +0000

This silhouette was taken in Negril in Jamaica. The sunset was not that interesting so I decided to try out a technique called split toning I saw on this blog. Split toning works by making the shadows one colour and the highlights another. This used to be done by developing with different combinations of chemicals. In the digital age its a lot simpler. Andrew Briggs used Lightrooms split toning tools for his image. I downloaded some photoshop actions instead. Actions are a way of automating tasks to save time. The split toning actions had several different options so I could not resist building up several layers with different split toning colours then mixing them together with different (blending modes) to create some really strong colours.