This gallery is a complete chronicle of my 40th year, starting on my birthday in 2008. I posted one photo each day for a year. The photo-a-day project continues in this gallery here.
June 12, 2008; Day 41.
I’m scouting for just the right place to put my camera when I start the “Four Holidays” project, which hopefully will be ready to go on July 4. I must think ahead for this, as each holiday will have separate lighting requirements as well as ideal placement of subjects that identify the holiday. In this spot, I have a lot of flexibility for a subject dancing around with a sparkler. But if I want to see kids in costumes standing at the door next to the Jack o’lantern at Halloween, I might need to get a little closer.
This is an HDR image taken from 6 exposures and assembled with Photomatix. The aperture is a fixed f/8 throughout; the shutter speeds were 25s, 13s, 6s, 3s, 1.6s, and 1/1.3s. Within Photomatix, I increased the white point and saturation but decreased the smoothing (more “glow” near the top of the house) and luminosity (less noise). Bet you wonder how I got this shot with a 1000mm lens! (Actually, the EXIF is wrong, the Sigma was at the full 10mm for this.)
PS: Used healing brush to remove power lines.
PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
I’m scouting for just the right place to put my camera when I start the “Four Holidays” project, which hopefully will be ready to go on July 4. I must think ahead for this, as each holiday will have separate lighting requirements as well as ideal placement of subjects that identify the holiday. In this spot, I have a lot of flexibility for a subject dancing around with a sparkler. But if I want to see kids in costumes standing at the door next to the Jack o’lantern at Halloween, I might need to get a little closer.
This is an HDR image taken from 6 exposures and assembled with Photomatix. The aperture is a fixed f/8 throughout; the shutter speeds were 25s, 13s, 6s, 3s, 1.6s, and 1/1.3s. Within Photomatix, I increased the white point and saturation but decreased the smoothing (more “glow” near the top of the house) and luminosity (less noise). Bet you wonder how I got this shot with a 1000mm lens! (Actually, the EXIF is wrong, the Sigma was at the full 10mm for this.)
PS: Used healing brush to remove power lines.
PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
June 12, 2008; Day 41.
I’m scouting for just the right place to put my camera when I start the “Four Holidays” project, which hopefully will be ready to go on July 4. I must think ahead for this, as each holiday will have separate lighting requirements as well as ideal placement of subjects that identify the holiday. In this spot, I have a lot of flexibility for a subject dancing around with a sparkler. But if I want to see kids in costumes standing at the door next to the Jack o’lantern at Halloween, I might need to get a little closer.
This is an HDR image taken from 6 exposures and assembled with Photomatix. The aperture is a fixed f/8 throughout; the shutter speeds were 25s, 13s, 6s, 3s, 1.6s, and 1/1.3s. Within Photomatix, I increased the white point and saturation but decreased the smoothing (more “glow” near the top of the house) and luminosity (less noise). Bet you wonder how I got this shot with a 1000mm lens! (Actually, the EXIF is wrong, the Sigma was at the full 10mm for this.)
PS: Used healing brush to remove power lines.
PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
I’m scouting for just the right place to put my camera when I start the “Four Holidays” project, which hopefully will be ready to go on July 4. I must think ahead for this, as each holiday will have separate lighting requirements as well as ideal placement of subjects that identify the holiday. In this spot, I have a lot of flexibility for a subject dancing around with a sparkler. But if I want to see kids in costumes standing at the door next to the Jack o’lantern at Halloween, I might need to get a little closer.
This is an HDR image taken from 6 exposures and assembled with Photomatix. The aperture is a fixed f/8 throughout; the shutter speeds were 25s, 13s, 6s, 3s, 1.6s, and 1/1.3s. Within Photomatix, I increased the white point and saturation but decreased the smoothing (more “glow” near the top of the house) and luminosity (less noise). Bet you wonder how I got this shot with a 1000mm lens! (Actually, the EXIF is wrong, the Sigma was at the full 10mm for this.)
PS: Used healing brush to remove power lines.
PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0