Unique Photo Images
Monday, June 29, 2009
Those stones are heavy
After teaching Photoshop CS4 for one week at The Clearing in Door County, Wisconsin, I had fun stacking a few rocks and then photographing them at Sunset. I did shoot the image with 7 various exposures and then combined the images with Photomatix Pro software. I also added a little grain to the rocks with RealGrain plugin by Imagenomic.
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After teaching Photoshop CS4 for one week at The Clearing in Door County, Wisconsin, I had fun stacking a few rocks and then photographing them at Sunset. I did shoot the image with 7 various exposures and then combined the images with Photomatix Pro software. I also added a little grain to the rocks with RealGrain plugin by Imagenomic.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Great Canoe Trip on the Chicago River
Three shots shot with a Canon G9 while on the Chicago River. This was a unique trip with "4 Jerrys".
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Three shots shot with a Canon G9 while on the Chicago River. This was a unique trip with "4 Jerrys".
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Illinois Railroad Museum more
What a great place to shoot HDR. This was taken near mid-day.
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What a great place to shoot HDR. This was taken near mid-day.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Old Route 66 - now Interstate 55
I always have to stop and photograph this old barn. Like other barns of this 1800 vintage, it to may soon be gone. The barn is around mile 218 on Interstate 55 North of Bloomington/Normal, IL.
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I always have to stop and photograph this old barn. Like other barns of this 1800 vintage, it to may soon be gone. The barn is around mile 218 on Interstate 55 North of Bloomington/Normal, IL.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
The perfect Duotone?
I am still working on finding a simple repeatable toning for B&W and IR images. The image above is now a preset that I made for Lightroom 2 and ACR (Adobe Camera RAW). I can click on the preset and have that same duotone in any B&W image. Compare with the other images.
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I am still working on finding a simple repeatable toning for B&W and IR images. The image above is now a preset that I made for Lightroom 2 and ACR (Adobe Camera RAW). I can click on the preset and have that same duotone in any B&W image. Compare with the other images.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Karsh Lighting
Working with the outstanding portrait lighting photographer, John Wiet, I tried to simulate the Josef Karsh style of lighting in the digital age. This photographer was a great model.
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Working with the outstanding portrait lighting photographer, John Wiet, I tried to simulate the Josef Karsh style of lighting in the digital age. This photographer was a great model.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Sepia Toning or Brown Toning
I am always looking for the perfect colors for toning of monochrome prints. Here I used Pantone solid color - coated 7 C. I really appreciate your input MAX. The top print is a Tritone or three separate color layers.
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I am always looking for the perfect colors for toning of monochrome prints. Here I used Pantone solid color - coated 7 C. I really appreciate your input MAX. The top print is a Tritone or three separate color layers.
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Saturday, June 06, 2009
Illinois Railroad Museum
What a great place for HDR. I got two images captured before the rain started. The old rusted train works also as a converted black and white image.
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What a great place for HDR. I got two images captured before the rain started. The old rusted train works also as a converted black and white image.
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Friday, June 05, 2009
Blue Light Last Night
8:45 PM and we had the best blue light of the evening at North Ave. Beach area. This was of course a HDR image processed in Photomatix Pro.
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Bad Hair Day
Caught this Bison feeding at the Wildlife Prairie Park near Peoria. I was up close, but elevated where he could not trample me or my camera. This pseudo HDR of the head shot brought out some of the coloration of the large aminal.
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Caught this Bison feeding at the Wildlife Prairie Park near Peoria. I was up close, but elevated where he could not trample me or my camera. This pseudo HDR of the head shot brought out some of the coloration of the large aminal.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Bridal Falls - Rosemont, IL
These Falls are artificial and used by many wedding photographers with bridal parties. I tried something new. Take three images all the same but space of time between images. Then put into your favorite HDR program and get the effect of a slow shutter speed and HDR at the same time. This is the wrong way to use the HDR concept, but interesting effect. Just another possible stacking method and use of HDR software demonstrated by Dan Burkholder in Photo Techniques March/April 2009. For this image I shot 7 different exposures, but only used 4. The above image has not been photoshoped yet. This is to show that you can get quality before editing in Photoshop. First in the Camera and then in the decisions of HDR software. ¶ 5:07 PM 0 comments
These Falls are artificial and used by many wedding photographers with bridal parties. I tried something new. Take three images all the same but space of time between images. Then put into your favorite HDR program and get the effect of a slow shutter speed and HDR at the same time. This is the wrong way to use the HDR concept, but interesting effect. Just another possible stacking method and use of HDR software demonstrated by Dan Burkholder in Photo Techniques March/April 2009. For this image I shot 7 different exposures, but only used 4. The above image has not been photoshoped yet. This is to show that you can get quality before editing in Photoshop. First in the Camera and then in the decisions of HDR software. ¶ 5:07 PM 0 comments
Monday, June 01, 2009
Black Eagle
There is not really such a thing as a Black Eagle, but there is no such thing in reality as a monochrome scene. Black and White Photography is a creation or an artistic rendering of a scene that was viewed by an individual and changed into a black and white photograph. Years ago there was no option of color photography. Now black and white or monochrome images have become more of an artistic statement. It still is a less expensive way to show or display photographs using a one color ink printing process.
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There is not really such a thing as a Black Eagle, but there is no such thing in reality as a monochrome scene. Black and White Photography is a creation or an artistic rendering of a scene that was viewed by an individual and changed into a black and white photograph. Years ago there was no option of color photography. Now black and white or monochrome images have become more of an artistic statement. It still is a less expensive way to show or display photographs using a one color ink printing process.
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