More Dusting Off ~ Wildlife

Feb 162012
 

So I am still dusting off some old files and found some from back when I was up in Alaska.  This first shot and my favorite Bald Eagle shot of all time was taken out in Dutch Harbor, AK.

These next four were all taken downing Homer, AK.  Now when I say these needed during off, they really did.  When I went on this shoot my Mark IIn was all of about 4 days old ( I was still reading the manual the night before the first day of shooting ) and like any new camera it was plauged with what I call break in dust.  Every small bit of dust that was shaken loose in that new body found its way to the sensor.  At the time I had no earthly idea how to clean a camera, so most of these shots originally looked like the Balds were flying in a volcanic fallout.  But thanks to some time and the healing brush said dust be gone and now I have some images again.

A Study in IR with Flowers

Jan 222012
 

So 2 posts in a week, I think this is a record for me at this point :)

With all the things I have been involved with lately and all the time I have had on my hands being stuck at the house.  I did the unthinkable and went and completely reorganized and sorted all (YES ALL!!!) of my images to date.  It took the better part of 3 days, lots of coffee and tea, as well as the better part of my sanity.  However, I was able to complete this task and in the process I found images that I had completely forgotten about.  Some of these images were from a study of light that I did on flowers a few years back.  Others just good old fashion macro photography of flowers out in the wild.  One thing that I noticed was that while the colors are rich and wonderfully please in to the eye.  I wondered what would happen if I decided to shift the spectrum of color a bit, say to the Infra red side of things.  So I gathered up a set of images and Jumped into Color Efex Pro 4.0 and had a little fun with it.  The results are below.  Turned out pretty neat I think…

 

On a Pano Limb

May 162011
 

OK, strange title?  Yes, I agree, but honestly I didn’t know how this would turn out until I finished it.  What you see below was shot with an iPhone.  Yes, I know I have been on a bit of a iPhone shooting kick lately, but hey it is honestly a good way to learn composition in some aspects.  You have to move to get the shot not sit there and zoom in so you are always looking for an angle and plus it give you a new way of looking at things…

The pano was shot using a free Microsoft iPhone app call Photosynth.  It is pretty user friendly and process images quickly.  I dropped it into Photoshop and did some quickk editing with some SEP 2.0, some Dfine, and finally Sharpener Pro 3 to pop the rock just a bit, and presto…

 

I know I didn’t do Half Dome justice in this pano, but it was that amazing sky that was stealing the show that day for me.

Pretty neat what that little camera can do with some great apps behind it

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