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It's amazing how fast photography is changing. I never gave HDR a thought until just under a year ago when I used my own car for my first HDR experiment on Jan.1st of this year. This photo now just happens to be my #1 most viewed photo at about 50,000 views (mostly because of you do a search for HDR it's usually the #1 or #2 most relevant photo).
And this photo is another in the series I did with my work buddy Jeff. The original Viper photo I posted is now my #1 most interesting photo of all time.
And according to my most interesting photos, the top 14 shots are all HDR shots, all taken this year. My previous #1 shot held that position since I initially posted it over 2 years ago. This was when I was at my peak of doing night-time long exposure shots. At that point, my photography was all about going out somewhere random late at night and taking long exposures at night. I also had my times doing tilt shift miniture fakes and using toy cameras for another way of looking at things as well as using textures to help enhance a photo.
What I'm getting at is that these fads come and go. Who knows what will be next? Years and years ago, improvements in photography came at the advances in use of film, and better lenses, and artificial lighting, but these came at a rate of every few years.
My next goal is to obtain and use slip-in filters to create more natural, even exposures.
I know a lot of people going back to film and understanding the original principles of what makes an out-of-the-camera photo more interesting. I think if we all strive to start there, we'll need to do a lot less enhancing to obtain Explore greatness.. or even the accolades from our peers.
Happy rainy Monday. I hope most of you have all your shopping done.
A few weeks ago I didn't feel like travelling a lot, so it seemed like a nice idea to check out my own environment.
This appeared to be a good decision. I found some barn swallow with their youngsters. It was great fun to watch the parents fly off and an on while the baby swallows cried for 'Bigger, Better, Faster, Moooooore..!'
Normally I bike around and -unlike when driving in a car- every animal runs, flies or swims away as soon as they see me and my Giant. So this time I slowly walked towards them, closer and closer and finally they were in the reach of my 300mm and...stayed there! ;)
A a 'Tug' on the Down Fast - when did that last happen? 'Steel on Steel'-liveried DBC Class 60 No. 60062 'Sonia' bowls along the Down fast at Stableford on 25th March 2023, heading pathfinder Tours 'The Marsh Magician' charter, 1Z30 0512 Bristol temple Meads - Crewe - Tuebrook Sidings. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Father Grebe kept very active bringing in fresh food for the young ones. Nikon D500/Sigma 150-600mm C.
Please click on pic for a larger and nicer view :-)
Time flies, and it's so surreal that It's two months already since I held the long awaited wood anemones, on our long awaited western Norway road trip during Easter. But still I only have edited a few of the nice photos I got on the trip, due to many other photography assignments this spring.
And in only 2.5 weeks we are on our next road trip already - to the northernmost parts of Norway, that I've looked forward to for even longer. I'm thankful for all the chances I get to photograph and travel during spring and summer!
My album of bunches & bouquets of flowers here.
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The low clouds on this morning were moving very fast. This is only a 61 second exposure ... in one minute the clouds had moved that much in the sky. Sometimes you can only get this motion with 3 to 4 minutes.
Nice part with the fast moving clouds, you do not have to extend the shutter all that much to get the neat view, allowing for more compositions and photos to be taken :))
If music could match photos, I think this would go down well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZCBrwlH4Sw
Reminds me of the scene in Fast and the Furious : Tokyo Drift where they go to the first drift meet.
This shot's been sitting in my LR folder for ages and I really liked it but couldn't come up with an edit I quite like. Finally settled on this! I hope you guys enjoy, let me know what you'd change.
Event: Foxfield Classic Show
Location: Foxfield Railway, Blythe Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent
Camera: Minolta SR-T 101
Lens(s): MD Rokkor-X 50mm f/2
Film: Agfa Vista 200
Shot ISO: 160
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Mostly Sunny
Mounting: Hand-held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Digibase C-41
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
I rescued Fast Eddie when he was about a month old outside splashing around in a mud puddle. Baby you came to the right guy. Picked him up, dried him up and brought him in for bottle feeding and care. Little Eddie had his eyes infected matted shut. I applied Ophthalmic Tobramycin eye drops to his eyes and in around a week he opened his eyes and looked at me with an expression that seemed to say, "Holy crap what an ugly mom I have!" 😄 This wasn't my first rodeo ha ha. I had nursed five or six other baby kittens into adulthood, and the rest is history! ❤🐱❤
The second of my future-auto trifecta, this time based on gorgeous retro wedge-front sports cars. Also built irl and then uploaded to digital. Full interior and at best minifig scale, though figures need to be chopped at the waist and finessed to fit. Front wheels can be steered too.
The purpose of the three cars was to look at what I consider the three main areas of consumer-cars in futuristic media: Luxury, Show, and Utility. I am disregarding Industrial and Military as I have made a ton of the former already and I don't really like the latter.
With the minifig I tried to represent Vin Diesel lol :P
Fast and Furious it's one of my favourites films so here it's a little tribute :P
Hope you like it !
Standby vesssel Esvagt Supporter's fast rescue craft. These rescue teams are amazingly professional. Once an alarm of a man overboard on a rig has been raised these crews can launch their craft do the rescue and return the casualty to safety in 3 to 5 minutes.
A teenage boy strikes a sudden and quick pose in a small walk-through door in a steel gate as he thinks that I can't get a sharp shot of him if he would move lightning fast.
Well, I have proved him wrong as this photo clearly shows.
Captured in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.
It is amazing how fast the sun moves across the sky and how slowly i run in my elder years. I was up in the dark to catch sunrise coming up behind The Mittens in Monument Valley. A sun star was my goal for this morning. Simple enough to do, says I.
Each time i managed to get the sun just at the correct placement against the butte the sun would move a bit more. I chased this scene across about a quarter-mile over cacti, dunes, sagebrush, going as fast as i could trying to guess the sun's next appearance before i finally managed to get this one. After this i conceded defeat as the sun was getting too high for what i was after.
It was a lot of fun. The great thing about it was i managed to get one. I also had an unknown accomplice chasing the rising sun across the same territory. As i turned to leave for the car he was still hopping cacti and dunes, and heading west trying to keep the sun in the right place.
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Autumn is fast approaching and every landscape photographer’s blood pressure starts to rise in anticipation of the glorious conditions about to unfold. The season of mists, subtle light and varied natural colour is upon us and the promise of what is to come, gets most photographers trigger finger twitching! For me the best thing about the season of promise is the colour. It is just so subtle and wide ranging across the colour pallet. Now I’m as much a fan of simplicity as most of us are, but I just crave the widest possible colour pallet in an image as I can, the wider the better the photographic fix!
This image was the result of several years of planning. I have, many times, tried to work this location; I have come up with many versions, abstracts, and even processed several, but haven’t really got what I wanted from it. This is up to now the best I have come up with, but I still get the feeling this ‘special location’ will provide me with opportunities for several years to come… (Maybe I just enjoy messing about in streams, hobbling about barefoot, with people walking past me question just how unusual an activity that bloke is up to)…
Muelle Braun & Blanchard at sunset
The sun sank behind the mountains in the distance. I turned my camera to the left hoping to capture more colors in the water. But the fact that the clouds had turned grey fast didn’t promise me much.
But I also enjoy capturing moody, almost melancholic, twilight skies once the dusk settles in. Right before it gets real dark. And I thought that it was what I would be capturing.
There were at least three other photographers with a tripod, an ND filter and a remote trigger and one of them literally started breaking down one of his two cameras thinking that it was over.
Not so fast. Suddenly the color magenta started coming through the band of clouds hovering over the sea.
It was so unexpected, so unbelievable and so vivid. The color magenta was so vibrant that it didn’t even look real. And yet it was.
Baffled, the guy packing up his gear simply dropped everything, grabbed his remaining camera on the tripod and hastily lunged the piles of rocks where we had been standing down to the water. I could tell that he was quite frustrated by the fact that it was happening so fast.
Soon only the pale, grey clouds returned as if it never happened. And it was time to call it a day for real.