This here is Bevo, our other cat. He is a curious red point Siamese.
Showing posts with label HDR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HDR. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Tink
Took this one a few weeks ago with the G15. I like using the G15 for indoor shots because its lens goes up to f/1.8, which is much faster then my current 5D lenses.
This is Tink, taking a nap under the coffee table. If she's not up and about, you can usually find here here.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven...
I took this the same night I took the Houston Panorama. I was fascinated by the orange glow of the JPMorgan Chase Building, so I stowed my 24-105mm and whipped out the 70-300mm for a close-up shot before I left.
JPMorgan Chase Building is a 37-story 130 m (430 ft) Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Houston, Texas. Completed in 1929, it remained the tallest building in Houston until 1963, when the Exxon Building surpassed it in height. The building is the Houston headquarters of JPMorgan Chase Bank, and was formerly the headquarters of Texas Commerce Bank.
The title quote is from the Book of Genesis, 11 verse 4, concerning the tower of Babel.
Monday, May 13, 2013
The object of Art is to give life a shape
Bryan wraps up the street art that him and Wiley worked on that day at an old gas station across from Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Downtown Houston, Texas.
This is in preparation for a street art exhibit at the museum on May the 25th, 2013.
This photo may look like it was taken with a extreme wide angle lens but it was in fact taken with my usual 24-105mm set at 24.
It is another stitch made up of 12 or so portraits. I panned across the top for about 6 shots and then across the bottom for the same.
I had intended to straighten out the distortion but when I did, the photo took on a bow-tie shape so I left it in. I don't generally like the fish-eye look but for this scene I think it looks pretty good.
I finally learned a good sharpening technique using a duplicate layer with a high-pass filter in use which I learned with the help of a fellow photographer's blog: http://hdrphotographer.blogspot.com/
Title quote from "The Rehearsal" by Jean Anouilh.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Night on the town
Here we have a panoramic photo of Down town Houston. It's roughly 180 degrees. Made up of 12 portrait HDR shots. To see it in all its glory click here: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/128389.
I got lucky that the Astros were playing that night, adds something to the scene I think. I had mad this trip to get some sunset shots with the Houston skyline but I didn't leave the house early enough.
Monday, February 18, 2013
My God, it's full of stars!
At this abandoned rock crushing facility on the outskirts of Searcy, Arkansas.
I love the monolithic quality of this... thing.
It just occurs to me that this would be a great place for star photography, to bad it's eight hours away.
Huh, according to the map, this is in Gray, Ar.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
...
On our way back to Houston, I had to stop again at this old farm house, if only long enough to take a few pictures.
I decided to include the power plant in the background and I'm so glad I did. The new perspective hives it a completely different aspect.
Click here to see the same farm house taken about six months ago by my old CyberShot:
Old Abandoned Farmhouse - When children’s voices called, Where grasses now stand still
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present
Still in Austin, Texas.
I was just starting my walk back to the car from the South Congress Ave Bridge cutting through the back lot of the Hyatt and I saw this scene. The light from the Hyatt was reflecting off that window on the building to the right and it just kinda demanded my attention.
This photo is a composite HDR/fusion of two long exposures, it wasn't nearly this bright in the alley way. I'm not completely happy with it, I may play around with the original images in Lightroom later on when free time is a bit more free.
Title quote by Francis Bacon.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
This old house
Out cruising around in Judsonia/Providence/Steprock Ar one day during this last winter break.
According to the map, I was in Guthrie, Ar.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
If columns could talk
This is one of my old ones, not that old I guess, only about 6 months, but I've only been at this for that long.
This is a close up of one of the columns of Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri) under a Roman summer sky.
I took this on our summer vacation across Europe last year.
You may say: "It's just a column and the sky", but this column is roughly 400 years old. It has been at the forefront of so much history.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Once upon a time, there lived...
While on my way back from Brazos Bend State Park, I saw this gem on the side of the road.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sam Houston Park
Here we have another from Sam Houston Park in Downtown Houston, Texas. Took this a couple months ago with the old Sony Cyber-Shot. This is another stitched panoramic made up of about 7 or so portrait HDRed shots. I love this shot but I don't think the Cyber-Shot was up to the dynamic range of this scene, there was a lot of noise in the dark areas of the statue. I'll have to take another walk through the park and see what the 5D can make of this scene.
Friday, January 25, 2013
The evening darkens over, After a day so bright, The windcapt waves discover, That wild will be the night
My third favorite from the other night at White Lake in Cullinan Park.
Title from "The Evening Darkens Over" by Robert Bridges. Click on the poem title to see the poem in it's entirety. A great poem, it's worth a read.
The other two from that night:
Only a mighty sadness fills, The silence of the dark
Fire in the sky
Monday, January 21, 2013
Fire in the sky
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Only a mighty sadness fills, The silence of the dark
The weather was amazing and the clouds look great yesterday for the first time in a month here in the Houston area. So the wife an I went down to Cullinan Park just north of Sugar Land, TX to check out the sunset. This one is actually facing away from the sunset but the pinks in the clouds just looked amazing.
Friday, January 18, 2013
The absence of meaning seems to be some sort of meaning
Not a lot going on here, but I love this one. In Searcy, Arkansas.
Title quote from Paul Hegarty on the paradox of nihilism.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Serenity now
Another of my bro-in-law's boat, great subject matter in my opinion. Also, if anyone's curious, the vignetting is a natural result of the 5D's full frame sensor and is magnified by the HDR process. One of these days I'm going to learn how to layer in PS and I might start lessening or removing them. For now they don't bother me all that much.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Rust to rust
Out on the hunt for interesting subject matter in rural White County Arkansas and came across these two babies.
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