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Another 3 exposure HDR (although not overly done), converted to B&W and I didn't like my result. Thought I'd bring back a little color just to liven it up a bit.
My longest exposure to date and first attempt at proper star trails, 921.7 seconds (15 minutes, 35 seconds) of stars and sky, triggered via remote and shot in pitch black darkness at the ol' fishin' spot while I stood idly by and drank beer off to the right.
It was my last shot of the night so I figured I'd let it go as long as possible. Turns out by the time everyone was ready to leave it only went just over 15 minutes (about 15 minutes shy of what I would have liked to get a real star trail effect).
The tree was actually being illuminated by Scotty's lantern about 30 feet in front of my tripod on the beach and although I couldn't even see it in the shot while setting up, I'm glad I caught it, it kind of ties the sky to the ground.
Early morning sunrise shot of the bridge to St. Joseph Island. We got up and drove 40 km across the island to get to this spot in time to see the sunrise and get a few shots on the last morning of our vacation.
I wasn't particularly impressed with the overall quality of the sunrise; on my 1-10 scale I'd give it a 3.5 but the little bit of cloud cover gave it a warm, sort of hazy feel which turned out ok I guess.
An interesting note: Within approx 5 hours after my shooting this, one of my contacts from Flickr, whom I have never met, shot almost this exact same shot of the bridge from a mere 20 or so feet from where I stood to shoot this. Note the same dates. An eerily small world.
Canon EOS 7D + Tokina AT-X 124 AF Pro DX 12-24mm f/4 + Manfrotto190XB / 804CR2 + Filtro B+W ND110
Exposición: 39 sec
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal: 18 mm
Velocidad ISO: 100
Great excitement as I open my Christmas present. A Manfrotto 190XB Pro tripod! This will help with my old shaking hands in my advancing years!!
“Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.” ~ Unknown
Of all the years I've been to this place, I've never seen such quick and intense storms that literally come out of nowhere.
While everyone else took shelter indoors, I stood on the shore and just let this storm roll right over me. Even with all of the lightning it was a relaxing feeling to just stand on the beach and take it all in.
The resulting slew of shots was well worth the 20 minute soaking.
Yesterday's sunrise was bloody remarkable. One of those ones where you hope you're in the right spot with camera in hand.
Turns out I missed it and thought that today might be a good day to try the waterfront for some similar action.
Turns out it was overcast and a rather gloomy October morning.
Still managed to make the most of it by shooting these old decaying piles just around sunrise.
4 exposure HDR, tripod mounted, no bracketing because my camera cannot bracket and it's more fun this way anyways.
River fishing for pickerel (not walleye) but somehow I always end up dropping the rod on the shore and reaching for the camera.
Thanks Meg for telling me to stop fishing and shoot this. It turned out A ok for a 30 second exposure where I couldn't see a thing through the viewfinder but the light of the moon.
A good tripod has a detachable center column. I've got that already. Now I need a good wide angle lens and we're all set.
For 8 days I tried to photograph this same heron. 8 mornings up before dawn, camera in hand, ready to go for the moment it swooped in for it's morning fill of frogs.
For 8 days this heron eluded me. Every time I tried to get a little closer to pull off a good shot it would notice me and fly away.
I even set up a ground blind near it's feeding spot only to have it show up in a different spot the next morning.
Quite a smart bird to be perfectly honest.
On our last morning on the island I figured I'd try something different. I figured I'd simply walk as close as I could without trying to be silent and be as obvious as I could. Turns out it worked because although I was noticed right away, the heron simply ignored me and continued it's business of frog eating.
This shot was from about 100 feet away with my 55-200 Nikkor. The geese in the background couldn't have picked a better time to cruise by right before the sun came up over the bay.
"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It is that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember as certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps 4 and 5 times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless." ~ The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles, 1949
The Gordon C Leitch moored at Thudner Bay Ontario, April 2009.
Maybe it's noticeable, maybe it's not but this was taken on a rather bland overcast evening with all of that flat and unbelievably boring light just before it began to snow (again). The sky was shot as is a few days later when the sun finally came out. I'm not huge on the photoshop skills but this is my layermasking attempt of the day to try and make a bland, boring sky look a touch more interesting.
I would have liked to get closer to this ship but it's monitored private property and didn't feel like the hassle on the day.
One of those "just a shot" shots that could have easily been a throwaway.
The first shot of this particular morning, tripod mounted on top of a picnic table just to check exposure before heading to my shoot spot.
Like I said, a throwaway but I liked it enough to post it here. It's got a duck in it.
24 hours of rain makes for some swollen riverbanks. So much so that there was little room for error where I was positioned for this shot.
HDR from 3 exposures +2EV, 0 EV & -2EV.
After the serious rain we experienced yesterday, I had to make use of the ND filters and get some shots of the sheer volume of water up at the Cascades.
In all my years of frequenting this spot I've never seen it as it was today.
With school monopolizing most of my time lately, I have had hardly any time for anything else. Truth be told, last night was the first time I picked up my camera in over 2 weeks.
Couldn't help but notice the moon looking particularly brilliant last night just after sunset so I captured this one tripod mounted from my front lawn.
You tend to get more detail when shooting a partial moon compared to a full one.
Winter's icy chains are beginning to let go. Finally.
This was another test of my Hoya ND filter that I had yet to use. The only other thing I could have used while taking this shot is a good cup of coffee.
Not so much a "long exposure" and not the longest I've done but this turned out exactly as planned. Too long of an exposure and the water would have come out too smooth and silky, too soft as it were.
It took four or five shots to find the right shutter speed that would give me the smoothness of water I always shoot for while still conveying that sense of speed and power behind all that water.
6 Exposure HDR tripod mounted.
The motion of the sky was originally unintentional on a shot from last spring but this time I did it on purpose to give it the effect of time passing or really fast clouds. I suppose if you were to figure in terms of time, I'd say this was a 25 to 30 second exposure when you factor in all 6 exposures.
Columbus Ohio thunderstorm and subsequently my first attempt at capturing lightning.
Shot out of our 18th floor hotel window at the Hyatt in downtown Columbus.
View this one large View On Black
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
- Walker Evans -
Not HDR. Just the good old S.H.I.T technique (Shadows Highlights Ians Technique)
See the S.H.I.T large on black
Hasselblad 500cm
Carl Zeiss 40mm
Ilford delta 400
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One of the hardest things I find is to make a good looking black and white shot.
I shoot everything in full color RAW and convert with CS3. One problem I have is that when I have a finished file ready to save in Photoshop (like this one) it looks great while open in CS3 but once saved it's almost as if it looks to have a bluish tinge to it almost as if I used a filter. That and the fact that the blacks come out a lot darker and lose some of the detail in the shadows.
Open the saved (JPEG) file again in CS3 and the bluish tinge is gone and the shadow detail is visible again.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? It's an annoyance that's been plaguing me for a while.
More in front of the bridge than anything, it's nice to see and hear some water again. In an area accustomed to 9 months of winter, people can get tired of snow and ice rather quickly. I know I can.
The Phantom Photogger strikes again, this time in good ol fashioned B&W.
Something about the lack of color and the ghosting effect that makes me like this one more.
A few people have mentioned the nice use of a "transparemcy mask" while editing with CS3 but this is not the case. This one (as well as the other shots in my Phantom Photogger Set ) are as shot, straight from the camera.
The only post production I have done here is a simple conversion from full color RAW to black and white as well as a curves layer here or there.
With my severely limited knowledge of Photoshop I'd be hard pressed to even know what a transparency mask is.
Always best to View On Black
Columbus Ohio thunderstorm and subsequently my second attempt at capturing lightning.
Shot out of our 18th floor hotel window at the Hyatt in downtown Columbus.
View this one large... View On Black
Early in the morning, when the light is at it's sweetest. With the onset of summer not too far in the future, the low light opportunities will become fewer and fewer.
Best View On Black
An accidental tripod movement turned into a different perspective on an otherwise standard running water shot.
Yes, I know the clouds are Photoshop'd. The sky was pretty mundane so I made it kind of better.
I dabble in B&W from time to time.
This image was fantastic in color but there was something about it that made me want to give it a go Ansel Adams style with the good ol' black and white.
When I say Ansel Adams style I am by no means comparing this work to that of Adams. That would be laughable.
Ansel Adams was a master.
He liked dodging and burning.
Ansel would have loved photoshop.
Go check out some Ansel Adams , black and white the way it was meant to be done.
Hasselblad 500cm
Carl Zeiss 40mm
Ilford delta 400
See more here: www.flickr.com/photos/jshearsphotography/sets/72157612605...