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Here is another interview I just did with John Colley of the Online Learning Podcast.
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You can see more of John’s podcasts here.
I have told myself more than once that I am burned out on Grungy looking HDR and dont want to look at it let alone create it. But that appears to never be true since I continue to create a few HDR images from time to time. This is Death Valley at sunrise and it made for a great HDR and it is not to grungy, at least by my definition of grungy. Which is hyper color and lotsa noise and halos on the edges.
Fortunately for those of us using HDR software, you can create images that look perfectly normal and even push them a little without hyper color and noise and halos. That was my goal here. Add substantial drama. The ground here is not dark like this but rather very light salt pan. The clouds weren’t that dark either, but HDR is famous for making them look threatening.
So carefully moving the settings added a lot of drama here while avoiding over-done color and noise and other HDR issues that can arise. It is almost like a negative effect, and I am happy with it.
How to Find and Photograph Fallen Roof Ancient Pueblo Ruin in Cedar Mesa Utah
Read the full post here:
http://pronaturephotographer.com/2014/04/photographing-fallen-roof-ruin-cedar-mesa-utah/
This is one of my favorite waterfalls. Maybe my favorite period!
Proxy Falls in Oregon is a luscious cascade of mist and moss on a steep hillside.
I first shot here around 25 years ago and few photographers had heard of it. There was a small dirt pull off on the winding mountain hwy. Now a paved parking pull offs, bathrooms, and PAY TO PARK.
Another version of this falls, shot from the other side, is one of my best selling stock photos ever, when you could make money doing this! Well worth the short hike in there.
Canon 5D and 16 – 35mm lens.
This is a popular place to shoot for outdoor photographers and I was lucky to be here after a rain so I got some nice clouds and a great sunrise.
Nature…..my new best friend!
It is Mt. Shuksan WA and I shot with a Canon 5D and 28-70 mm lens.
This is a small ground cover plant with frost on it from a venture through the Colorado Rockies.
The whole image might be 5-6″ across.
Shot with a 100 mm macro lens.
And they were all quite colorful plants of varying colors and some blue sky bouncing in.
This is one of the most amazing places I have ever shot! It’s part of Grand Staircase-Escalante NM, Utah.
The soft light is very flat lighting: no whites and no blacks, just light grays and dark grays, so you have to create the black and white. But do you need them?
Honestly, I struggled to find my ‘look.’ The original file has a blue cast from the blue sky above, so I worked that a bit: added blue/took away blue, saturated, added contrast, then took it all away. Today, I decided to do B&W and high contrast. Tomorrow, who knows.
I love Happy Snappin’! When I am not seriously shooting (full pack of gear) I am obsessed with Happy Snappin’ with my iPhone.
This one from old store and looks like they sold a variety of weapons. You could choose an ancient weapon or a modern weapon. From Cerrillos New Mexico, which is almost a ghost town.
It has some cool old buildings and while Happy Snappin this old building I noticed this picture which I captured on the iPhone.
Oh this was so fun! Drove through Holbrook AZ on our way to New Mexico. Stopped in Holbrook to shoot Petrified Forest and when driving through town we saw the Wigwam Motel. OMG–gotta shoot!
Came back at dusk and it started pouring down rain. Perfect! LOL. I did get pretty wet but who cares? I did a non-grungy HDR, then accentuated lighter areas by painting highlights in Photoshop, added a vignette, and a little more burning and dodging for effect. A teeny weeny bit sharpening. And I am done…for today that is.
