May 26, 2009

Here are a couple pictures of Mesa Arch. They were taken at sunrise in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Takes about 30 mins to walk up here in the dark and you are surprised at the size of the Arch. It is only about 10 feet high and about 25 feet across, but it is a spectacular scene as the sun sets the rocks on fire.

May 25, 2009

Was working on a image from Blackwater Falls today, just playing around to see what it looked like. Love the area and want to go back later to get some different shots from Dolly Sods and the Canaan area

May 23, 2009

This is a single shot with only my normal workflow in photoshop.



This is the only HDR shot I did tonight



Tim and I headed to Huntington tonight to shoot some night shots of the courthouse for some HDR shots. However, I found it was not necessary to shoot HDR, I was able to get the shot I wanted without multiple shots put together with HDR program.

May 22, 2009

Liked this shot, just now getting around to posting it. Shot in Vermont on the first morning I was there.

May 22, 2009

Dolly Sods sunset done with HDR



Horse Done with photoshop technique. It also sold for a cool $250,000, not picture but the horse

May 21, 2009

Just adding a image I tried some artsy stuff on to see how it looked. Hope to get out some next week and shoot a few shots of some real things

May 18, 2009

Here are some shots from Arches National Park and outside our house in Florida. Just playing around this evening with no plan

May 17, 2009

Went out with my friend Tim and shot some pictures over at a Antique Shop on Rt. 34
It was a good experience to try and see some shots that I normally would not see and take

May 16, 2009

Took off to see my friend and happen to find this car to shoot. It was raining and made it a nice shot. This is a 1950 Chrysler which was driven 200 miles last year.

May 13, 2009

The following image is a composite, the original had so much reflection from whatever I was not able to save it, so I just replaced the bad part.



Went to Cathedral Falls tonight, but my friend couldn't go and that made the shoot a lot harder. I did learn you need at least 2 people, multiple flashes, a big light, and no wind blowing stuff and rain around to reflect in the image. But I was able to get a picture.

May 12, 2009

Was out doing some things with the grandkids and saw these weeds and thought they made a good image, so I used a 17-40 lens on my 5D with no tubes or macro lens and got this shot.

May 12, 2009

Was out in the backyard yesterday doing some mowing and saw these blossoms in the briars, so I stopped mowing and went and took a couple of images. I am going to Cathedral Falls tomorrow evening to shoot with a friend. We will be shooting after dark and painting with light and the falls are lite at night I think, so hopefully we will get some interesting shots or effects.

May 9, 2009

Took off today to do some shooting after doing some work around here. Went to the Cemetery to place flowers and saw some interesting things on the way out and needed a little lift, so I shot a few images. Then headed up Rt. 2 to see if I could find some more things and found this shot.

May 8, 2009

Saw the moon and had to shoot a few shots. These were shot with a Canon 50D with a Canon 2X extender and 100-400 Canon IS lens. Settings were 1/200th @ F/11 and 8

May 8, 2009

Was practicing some shooting and took the following panning shots. Nothing special, but I am waiting to do some 2nd curtain flash photography.

May 6th evening

Saw the sky, grapped my camera and broke a couple of laws getting to the site to take this image. Just wanted to add this shot to my collection of this barn.
This is an HDR of that shot, with little processing done in photoshop except to blend the images into 1



Had to do one of my drive and shoot shots of the sky as I was headed home, tough to hold a 5D with battery pack, kirk bracket and kirk handle drive and shoot. Also, really stupid to do so, but what the heck.

May 6, 2009

Here is the holy grail of junk signs. I wish I had paid more attention when I was there and had met some of the club members before the trip. I would still be taking pictures at this place. Like a friend of mine said, " was Fred Sanford home".

May 5, 2009

I had a few images to play with and my photo club buddy, Mark has an interest in signs, so I just happened to have an old image I thought he might like. I shot this in Idaho and just now am getting around to working on it and deciding what I might like to do with it. Here is one thought I had.

May 2, 2009

Decided to go to the mountains to shoot some shots and had an idea to try painting with light. I found out it is a lot harder than I thought it would be, especially by yourself. But, it was fun and I learned a lot. Check out the results at http://picasaweb.google.com/Kestrel139/RoadTrip# to see some of the shots from today.