A pic posted to Flickr this morning:
God Rays in the Morning
This summer has officially become a repeat of the summer of ’08. For those of us up here, it was “the summer that was not.” Rain, clouds, fairly cold… Technically a bit warmer than it was in 2008, but none of our typical summer beauty.
Nonetheless, beauty is to be found. This, in the dark spaces: a morning image, from on the way to work…
Evening HDR
Just a test shot that I thought I’d post. I may be putting up a couple more over this evening. Testing CS5′s “Merge to HDR Pro” function, comparing it to Photomatix Pro. This one is an excercise in rescuing a screwed up frame: I had the color balance set to tungsten when I took this, so everything was hyper-blue. Arguably still is, but that’s the HDR saturation effect. Click to continue »
Clouds in the evening - 10pm
Look at the angle of the light on the clouds to the right. It’s at quite an angle, and yet it’s not yellowing. You know, the yellowing that you see as it gets closer to the golden hour? Not yet – it’s too early. This is 10pm last night. It’s probably two or three hours away from a colorful sunset.
There were great textures though, and the sky was unusually clear. These clouds are probably over the inlet or, at the closest, over the open fields at Elmendorf Air Force base.
Classic for my situation, I noticed them almost too late – I had to pull out my good 80-200 f/2.8 lens & handhold at f/8 (1/250th sec.) to get this. This is fully zoomed out (200mm), so there’s an effective zoom of 300mm.
HDR of clouds and trees
I read a lot on photography. One of the more common themes a year or two ago were about finding the “fram within a frame.” That is to say, find a new composition an existing photo. For example, take a look to the right. An HDR from last weekend, which has some incredible light in the clouds, but sorta loses the feel in the trees. This was hand-held, mind you, so that might have contributed to the trees being off, but it was also slightly windy.
Nonetheless, the light in the clouds was great! Wanting to capture this, I dinked around for a few minutes in photoshop, until I came out with the photo below.
There I go again with abstracts…
HDR Clouds, from cropping in the previous pic