What do you do when the wind is blowing at more than 40mph? You go with it!
Here are two impressions of fence posts taken at Brown’s Ranch this past Sunday.
Tech Stuff: ISO 100, f/32 at 1/8th second. 100mm lens. Intentional camera moment.
Tag Archives: abstract
swing your camera, doe see doe
A favorite from my archives, this was taken while walking with a Canon PowerShot past a large
shrub covered with lights. I swung the camera up, down and around. Exposure was 1.6 seconds.
aloe
More shakin’ goin’ on 🙂
agave
When I’m not looking for rock faces, I enjoy shaking my camera at desert plants 🙂
fall tapestry
Another Aspen abstract from last Sunday’s shoot in Flagstaff. It reminded me of needlework.
prickly pear and mesquite
Slow shutter speed and deliberate camera movement of Prickly Pear Cactus and a Mesquite tree.
I’m thinking about fall colors today and the late day sun makes this look kind of like a fall scene.
1 scene 3 ideas
Ansel Adams said that the key to good photography is visualization. It really does make a difference
if you have a definite goal in mind for a photograph. At the Flagstaff Arboretum, there’s a bench tucked
in a little Aspen grove. It’s a scene I can’t resist. The last time I shot it, it was surrounded by Columbine.
This time, the light was a real challenge so I shot it with three ideas in mind.
The first is an HDR which means I took 3 shots to capture the best in the highlights and shadows.
I then used Topaz Simpify 2 to knock down the edges and add a little more color.
The second shot is in Infrared which always works well in bright light.
The third image is an abstract. It’s the result of intentional camera movement and my favorite way to shoot.
I plan to go back the last weekend in September when I hope to find the Aspen in full fall color.
patterns from nature
What do you get when you fool with Mother Nature? A pattern that would look great as a silk scarf!
I started with a shot of blooming Sage.
The sky was heavily overcast so of course I couldn’t resist swinging my camera around 🙂
I began rotating it in Photoshop to find the best view which gave me the idea of blending two versions.
So I created a copy layer; flipped it horizontally, lowered the opacity and used the blend mode “darken”.
As a last step, I tweaked color and contrast using Levels and Curves.
color in the shade
My friend Dayton M. is visiting from Albuquerque. He’d never seen Chihuly’s glass so we went today.
weather forecast
This is an image of a small thicket of trees that we’ve passed each afternoon while hiking to town. To me their color and bare limbs portray how cold it is here. I thought an abstract would translate that even more so I shook my camera as I pressed the shutter. Do you sense the cold? I suppose you might since I told you that’s what you were supposed to feel 🙂
Below is what the trees look like in reality.
(No wireless signal today so this is auto-scheduled post)