Category: Image Of The Day

Daily Images by Kevin Raber

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HDR’ed and I Don’t Care

Big Old Train Noblesville, IN
Big Old Train Noblesville, IN

Lately I have been shying away from the HDR look. This is a grungy look that many photographers use to add artistic effects to their shots. It really is used to recover shadow and highlight details in images by combining multiple exposures of different ranges in exposure together. Sometimes in can be done in such a way that the image looks very natural. Other times it kind of goes over the edge. This is one of those other times. It works though with big old locomotive and the sky and the colors.  Shot with a Nikon D800e on a tripod. 24-70mm lens. Processed in Capture One then the output was HDR’ed in Photomatic.

 

 

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In Canada This Week

Wet Grass In A Field, Cremore, Canada
Wet Grass In A Field, Cremore, Canada

I am in Canada this week working on my new business luminous-landscape.com. Doing a lot of planning and meetings to make sure we have all aspects under control moving forward. Lots of ideas to make a great site even better. Very exciting times. Michael Reichmann and I will work and in the afternoon go out shooting. You know how it is as a photographer. You got get out there and shoot. This picture was made in a field yesterday. It was right after a rain storm and I loved the way the drops of water clinged to the grass. I also thought B&W worked best for this image. Shot with a Nikon D800e and 24-70mm lens. Processed in Capture One and converted to BW while still a RAW.

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BIG NEWS – Just Announced NEW 2015 Antarctica Trips

The Ocean Nova, Antarctica
The Ocean Nova, Antarctica

As you may know I am the publisher of Luminous-Landscape.com.  We are the largest online photographic resource for photo enthusiasts and pros. We do workshops all over the world and work with some of the best instructors in the world. Today we just launched our 2015 Antarctica Workshops. We are offering two back to back workshops in January 2015. This is an incredible trip. I will have been there 6 times by the time the workshop takes place. I am doing Antarctica this November and in January 2014. It is my favorite place on the planet. It is a must see and must do on your bucket list. Especially if you enjoy taking pictures. Visit Luminous-Landcape and check it our and register. Our previous workshops sell out very quickly. The image above I made on my last trip. It is the ship we will be sailing on. Oh, did I mention we will be flying over the Drake.

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Train Yard

Train Coupling, Nobesville, IN
Train Coupling, Nobesville, IN

I love what I call Sunday Photo Day. This past Sunday June 30th Debra and I headed to the Indiana Transportation Museum. I have been shooting there for year and there are all these old trains and some of them have the most beautiful rust and decay.  Did I mention I like rust and decay? So here is the first of many I took that day. I hope in the coming weekends I can go out and shoot more there. I haven’t even begun to capture all of what is there. I’ll post more here over the coming weeks.

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Tabular Iceberg

Iceberb blowing 23I am getting so excited as I will be visiting Antarctica again for the 5th and 6th times this winter. First trip will be in November and another at the end of January. This is one of time most amazing places in the world that anyone and especially a photographer can visit. I have also just booked 2 more workshops for January 2015 on the Luminous Landscape website. I’ll but links in another posting in the next few days. This will be an incredible trip. I do hope to publish a book on Antarctica after these next journeys. Also, you can visit my Antarctica Gallery page from the home page of this site under the Gallery Selection. This is an image of a giant tabular iceberg that we passed on one of our cruises in Antarctica.

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Happy Car

Happy Car, Carmel, Car Show, Indiana
Happy Car, Carmel, Car Show, Indiana

This is just a fun shot. Made at the auto show that is right up the street from my house. I love shooting all the cars and trying to find unique angles and clever shots. Sometimes I shoot the engine, or the light paying on the curves of the car body. But, this one just looked fun.

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Barrel Room

Barrel Room, Abandoned Farm House, Tuscany, Italy
Barrel Room, Abandoned Farm House, Tuscany, Italy

While shooting a sunrise in Tuscany we stumbled onto an abandoned farm house.  It was wonderful exploring it and I did come out with some nice images.  This is an image of a room where I believe barrels were made.  It was just about complete darkness.  I used a Phase One IQ260 that is great for long exposures.  the exposure was a long one and yielded a surreal image.  I hope you like it.