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The photo was taken as a RAW file by my DJI Phantom Pro 3 drone. I used Photomatix Pro to HDR post process the photo and Photoshop to mask through an extra glowing of the active white water. I also used Photoshop to mask out the houses above the falls.
Abandoned school. I was out all day with John Shillaw
( www.flickr.com/photos/jshillaw/favorites/ ) and another photographer friend of ours, John Knorr. We had a great day shooting things that I would not normally shoot (rusted structures etc.). We ended the day looking for a ghost town, but we ran out of daylight before ever finding it. John & John were mostly shooting film.
I processed this with the new Aurora HDR software. Awesome software! #AuroraHDR
Here's a shot that I took during my first night in Amsterdam. My favourite thing about Amsterdam is the colorful homes and beautiful lights that line the canals. No matter where you look, there is a picture perfect opportunity right in front of you! I chose this location because of the cool reflections in the water and it showcased the different styles of architecture that you will find throughout the city. I took this particular shot at "blue hour" and as I recall, the blue hour in Amsterdam starts pretty late! Around 10:00pm-ish in the summer!! I think I was waiting for the sun to set and the lights to come on for about 3 hours or so. So, my advice for traveling is this... Make sure you look up what time the sun will set when travelling between different time zones... Oops :)
Visit to Concrete City with fellow photographers: Curtis Solanick, Brian Bukeavich, Lewis De Joseph, Marty Straub and Dave Cohen.
Since purchasing MacPhun's new HDR software, AuroraHDR Pro over the holidays, I made sure to capture plenty of bracketed exposures to jump head-first into the program (I've used HDRsoft's Photomatix Pro dating back to late 2006)
Concrete City
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Thursday, January 7th, 2016
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When I hear the word dune, I think of the desert, but these along the Florida beach are a different variety. Unlike the shifting sands of the Sahara, these are covered with plants and are meant to hold their shape in a storm. They are what keeps us from being washed away completely.
If you look carefully through the top of the dune, you'll see orange tape marking a sea turtle nest. Scores of volunteers comb the beach for nests, erect barriers, and take careful notes over the incubation period. Once hatched, they'll dash for the water so as not to be eaten by birds. Only a few survive to adulthood; it's a rough start to what will hopefully become a long life in the sea.
Nothing is permanent, yet everything is trying to hold on. The dunes and turtles are both pitted against the forces of nature. Perhaps the tension in the environment is what produces the beauty on earth. It seems that elemental pressures are a creative force. Without them, we'd all be washed away and overrun with too many sea turtles. On second thought, you can never have too many sea turtles.
On Saturday evening I visited the pier at Fort Desoto Park. I don't know why I waited so long to return here; it's one of my favorite places. I was lucky because as you can see, the sunset was epic.
From the moment I got out of my car, I was busy taking pictures. I go camera-crazy whenever I'm in an idyllic setting. I dare say we all do; when I looked around nearly everyone was holding a camera of some type (be it phone or DSLR) taking pictures.
To make this final image I combined three exposures into Aurora HDR, made a few adjustments and then used Luminar 2018 to make a few more. I never repeat the same process twice. I do everything by feel, and I don't write anything down. It's a form of improvisation, similar to what a musician might do. It's no wonder, so many photographers are also musicians, the creative process has certain similarities. Which got me thinking, I wonder what this scene would sound like if translated into music?
Canvey Marina, tide out and lots of mud!
3 exposures combined in AuroraHDR with the Magical Sunset preset
Cortez is one of the last fishing villages on the east coast of the United States. That would mean these pelicans picked the perfect place to live.
We came for the annual fish festival and left stuffed to the gills. They had every kind of fish dish you can imagine, and then some.
Fishing vessels were docked alongside the processing plant, and I captured these fellas preening themselves, oblivious to all the commotion around them. Sea birds in Florida coexist with fishing and are not afraid of humans at all.
Anyway, this reminded me that I need to come back to Cortez on a regular workday to see everything in action. It's one of the first places I came with the new Sony camera about five years ago, and I always find something interesting to shoot here. And, as one of the last villages of it's kind, it is a little bit of history.