Tag: hdr
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“The Best Damn Vernal Falls Photo In The World”
There’s quotes around the title. That means someone said it. That means it’s true. Ego much? 🙂 This time of the year there’s very little water in Yosemite National Park. The snows have not yet settled. Last year’s Winter was mild. Everything is as dry as a bone. And of course, it spent the summer…
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Grand Canyon Golden Falls
If you’re going to carry a tripod all the way to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you may as well use it for something interesting. This is Angel Falls. And it is spectacular. You get to climb up behind the water and look out over the alien landscape. To get some idea of just…
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Tutorial: Bringing the Storm
Today’s lesson is in adding dark storm clouds to a beautiful clear sky, without doing all that complicated selection nonsense. There’s always a debate raging amongst photographers about how much you’re “allowed” to change an image and still call it a photograph. Clearly studio model shots that are then composited on to images of urban…
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Josie gets published!
Over at Digital Photography School they’ve decided to publish one of my dog shots. The picture was taken a long time ago and shows how you can get some great HDR like effects simply by using camera raw and pushing the black, recovery, and fill lights sliders too far. I hope you enjoy the picture,…
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Review (Olympus EP-2): Our 4/3rds Weekend at East Brother Light Station
As you know my lovely wife and I are about to hike the Grand Canyon. This epic 3 day walk, carrying all our gear will probably kill me, but that’s OK because I intend to leave some lovely photos of the event for my descendants to quibble over. The problem I have, is what camera…
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Sutro Baths and Bird Crap
The Bay Area Night Photo group met recently at Sutro Baths in San Francisco. Once upon a time the place was magnificent, now it’s just a pile of decaying concrete. Which makes it perfect for setting fire to! One day I’ll show you how we make these fireworks. In the meanwhile I’m sure a…
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Tutorial: HDR Scary Tree
Let’s try something new. Here’s a nice picture of a scary tree guarding a sleeping princess. Wanna know how I took the shot from this bland image to the dark image above? Watch the tutorial and enjoy!
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Reaching for you
I recently went for a stroll in a very damp, tumbling down forest. The whole thing looked like something from a movie. I think there were even those strange slithering creatures just out of sight. The recent storms clearly were encouraging everything to grow at a startling rate. That and die, and rot, and transmute…
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The Coming Storm
Deanna and I hiked Mission Peak again. Thanks to the clocks springing forward we made it all the way to the top and some of the way down before it became necessary to use flash-lights. For once, we also got to see the sunset. The bad news was that the storm was coming in fast.…
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Mission Impossible
Deanna clearly hates me. She’s booked us to spend 4 days hiking the Grand Canyon. As far as I can tell it’ll be a lot of downhill, a little flat, and then the mother of all up-hills. So I need to practice. The worst hike near the house is Mission Peak; it’s a 2,500ft rise…