Friday, June 27, 2008

Field


I took a few pictures of the same scene as a landscape, but the way the clouds came out in this wide angle shot was perfect for this portrait.

It is made up of two different treatments of the same RAW photo. The field/trees needed to be overexposed, while the sky needed to be underexposed. Most of the processing time was spent isolating the sky from everything else.

f/16, 18 mm, 1/250 sec., ISO 200

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Sunset Cloud 2


This was taken the same evening as the picture in the previous entry.

The processing was similar, except for a little dark gradient added at the top. The difference is, of course, the cloud itself, and a slightly shorter focal length.

f/8, 40 mm, 1/180 sec., ISO 200

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Sunset Cloud


This was taken a few hours before another storm passed through, so the clouds were building up and reflecting the light of the setting sun in wonderful ways.

I used two Curves and one Levels layers in LAB mode to enhanced the contrast, darkening the blue of the sky and making the sunlight more golden. I also decided to layer another copy of the picture and blend it as a partial linear burn.

f/8, 55 mm, 1/180 sec., ISO 200

Monday, June 2, 2008

Electricity


In this shot, I find the juxtaposition of God's awesome display of electricity and man's attempt to master it fascinating.

f/4, 31 mm, ISO 200, 1/60 sec.