If You Build It
August 12, 2010 by Kivus · Leave a Comment
I’ve driven by this particular construction site a bunch. It’s fairly amazing to see how quickly they cleared out this lightly forested field, and turned it into this mass of red dirt and clay. I’ve always meant to stop and take a few pictures once all the workers have cleared out, but I really didn’t want to end up covered in red dirt. Last night I made a special trip, including wearing shoes I figured would get destroyed. I ended up getting some pretty good photos….but my red mud covered shoes are now in the dumpster.
Storm is Brewing
August 8, 2010 by Kivus · Leave a Comment
I need to work on fixing ghosting more in HDR images (especially in the trees), however, in this case, I wouldn’t have done anything with the clouds anyway…maybe a little touch-up work if I was going to print this photo, but I like the motion of clouds in HDR, especially in black & white.
I wonder if Photomatix 4 (which I still don’t believe has an Aperture plug-in for its beta) or Nik’s new HDR offering (whenever it’s released in “late summer”) will be able to handle selective ghosting correction
Going off One
July 27, 2010 by Kivus · Leave a Comment
I arrived at Brier Creek yesterday, figuring I’d take a light walk just to get out of the house for a bit. I went past the first hole and saw a sign that said “Course Closed”. Man, if I had known that, I would have showed up much, much earlier in order to photograph some things. Sadly, I got there pretty much right at sundown and only got a few shots. This is from the first tee.
Wouldn’t You Like to Live Here?
July 12, 2010 by Kivus · Leave a Comment
I’m still working on nailing down when the best time to take HDR shots is. In this case, there was a ton of cloud cover, which meant there was much less light available than I realized. As a result, I didn’t take enough exposures on the top end and the shadows in this image look are little more ominous than I would have ideally wanted. Still, I think it looks like a nice, creepy neighborhood that could show up at the beginning of some movie about the crazy people who live on the street…you know about those people, right?
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