Submitted for your review, a picture of rolling hills with a storm rolling in. Lots of work in post on this one. For starters, this was another of the HDR Panorama sets. Only nine source images in this one, however. I also darkened the sky and lightened the ground using a layer mask to isolate … Continue reading
Here is the second in a series of panoramas that I took in the Russian River wine country. This shot was about 30 minutes before the one from HDR Sunset – First Attempt. There are more light areas and the tone difference between the bright shots into the sun and the darker ones farther away … Continue reading
I’m not completely happy with this, but it is a technically challenging subject. This is a picture with an incredibly high dynamic range. Shadows on most of the landscape on the dark side and the setting sun on the other extreme. This is a compilation of 21 (7 HDR triples) images. It took a while … Continue reading
Overall, I like this picture of Lower Yosemite Falls, but the problem is, I wish the model on the log in the foreground actually occupied more of the foreground. I would also like to get some of the sky. This is the widest angle lens I have, which is why I didn’t get closer to … Continue reading
Short and sweet today. A picture of down town Oakland reflecting off of Lake Merritt. I am going to try to take this picture again, but here is what I am going to differently: I am going to use HDR and bracketing to try to get rid of some of the star patterns around the … Continue reading
One of the great things about writing this blog is that I have been taking the time to review and categorize my prior work. In doing this review, I noticed how much I have been using high dynamic range (HDR) in the last two years, or more accurately, I have been taking pictures using automatic … Continue reading
There is a small town, Graton, near my house at the Russian River that has a fire station that I pass sometimes on my occasional early morning drives into the city. It is quite haunting looking with the overall red glow and the fire engines dimly shining from behind the glass doors illuminated by the … Continue reading
While it may be all fine and good that Robert Frost took the Road Not Taken, the rest of us live in different times. Even the road less traveled by is experiencing quite a bit of traffic these days. This is a spot on one of my favorite hikes in the North Bay. It is … Continue reading
While I was taking a lunch break yesterday, setting the table, I spotted a red-tailed hawk on a nearby tree. I grabbed my camera, thankfully, had my long 70-200mm lens already mounted. I started shooting immediately before I started moving closer. I learned a long time back that getting a fair shot is better than … Continue reading
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