Month: January 2012

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Making It Look Different

Chicago Pigeons - Sketcher

One of the things photographers are doing  lot of these days is taking normal pictures and using apps on their iPhones and iPads making them look different.  I will admit I am guilty of this too, but I believe an image needs to be able to work without a lot of special effects and textures and so forth.  Granted there is an occasional image that works well but a good image with good subject, and composition will always win out.  Plus after a while all of this fancy effects becomes contrived and overused.  Today though I am showing an image that I ran through a new app on my MAC.  It was 99 cents and it is called Photo Sketcher and it does some cool stuff.  Above is the page from it and below is the original.  The original is  stung in its own right but the sketcher one works well too.  What do you think?

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Ice and Glacier

Ice and Glacier, Mt Cook area, New Zealand

This is a cool image done while visiting the Mt Cook area in New Zealand.  We did a cruise in these Zodiac like boat and were able to get right up on mini icebergs which were breaking off the Glacier in the background.  I had fun trying to put both the iceberg and glacier in the same shot to show contract and such.  What do you think?

 

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Nature Takes Over

Nature Takes Over - Train Car - Noblesville, IN

Kind of cool how mother nature in all her ways eventually reclaims things and takes over.  Nothing is more evident than this shot of the side of s rusty train car with a small plant beginning to grow out of it.  Shot with a P65+ there is a load of detail in this shot. I made a large 30×40 inch print of this and it is stunning.

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Rickets Glen

Rickets Glen, Pennsylvania

Tucked away in the mountains of central Pennsylvania is a small state park known as Rickets Glen.  Literally out in the middle of no where this park boast 26 waterfalls and all of them are beautiful.  It’s a two day adventure to visit Rickets Glen and shoot these falls.  Obviously better to do in the Fall with colors changing.  Here is one image expect to see more.

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Artsy Tree In San Miguel

Tree in courtyard at abandonded hotel, San Miguel, Mexico

So very now and then I get really deep into the photo apps on the iPhone and iPad, and I see how far I can take an image to be artsy.  This is an image I shoot with a Phase One IQ180 in San Miguel, Mexico.  I had the image in a gallery on my iPad and I just started using a bunch of apps and came up with this as a final.  It’s a tree in a courtyard of a hotel that is half constructed and then abandoned.  I will be leading a workshop in San Miguel this March for Phase One camera systems owners.  You can find out info about this by CLICKING HERE.

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London – Low Angle

It's London

I love London, but I love copenhagen, Barcelona and many more cities also.  This shot was made in a small place where there are these array of small fountains.  I played here for a while trying slow shutter speeds, longer lenses etc until I came up with this shot which I really like.  So today here is LOndon Bridge and fountains.

 

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A Different View

Canyonlands area near Moab, UT

This is a shot of the Canyonlands outside of Moab.  This is a pretty typical shot and a lot of people could take this shot.  Fortunately for me that day this storm rolled in and I was shooting from the same height as the storm and thus I had these cool grey clouds on the top of my image yet sunshine in the canyon.  This is one of a series of very dramatic pictures taken during a 15 minute window of the storm.  Sometimes you get your best pictures in not so desirable condition.

 

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Palouse Patterns

Palouse Patterns

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ME!  I love to celebrate another year of life and living my passion and dream.

I have been accumulating a lot of images these last few months.  I have enough to get me through nearly a half year of blogging.  I am about to start researching and redesign of my web site.  Looking at a few different options.  Either way I am going to also start to play with 500px so expect to hear more on that soon.

Todays shot was made while flying over the Palouse.  This area is amazing on the ground and even takes on a whole new feel from above.  Patterns are everywhere and like many landscapes I like to shoot it is dynamic and chaining.  This pattern is not there anymore, most likely plowed under within a few days of taking this image.  Truly something photographed and remembered only with this image.  How cool is that?

 

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One Of My Favorites

Ayers Rock - Australia

This is one of my favorite shots.  It was made in Australia which should be obvious on one of the PODAS workshops I lead.  Ken Duncan who is a miracle worker in his own right asked this beautiful girl if she would be in our picture and she agreed.  During the time I was taking this shot flies were buzzing around and she was looking uncomfortable.  Then all of a sudden she just took this amazing pose and I shot it.  Two seconds later she was looking somewhere else.  Sometimes it just works, have patience.