Monday, December 3, 2012

Final Presentation

1- Shepherd's Sunset
ISO 80 14.161mm f/4.0 1/60 sec
Shot without a tripod

2- Leaf at Rocky
ISO 80 8.674mm f/8.0 1/15 sec
Shot Without Tripod

3- Falcon at Rocky
ISO 80 100mm f/5.7 1/60 sec
Detail +
Shot without Tripod

4- Squirrel at Rocky
ISO 200 100mm f/5.7 1/50 sec
Shot without Tripod

5- Meeting of the seasons
ISO 400 10.977 f/3.5 1/640 sec
Shot without Tripod


6- Snow on the Roses
ISO 400 15.956mm f/4.0 1/640 sec
Lots of editing in the presence field in Basics. 100+ Clarity, 15+ Vibrancy, 30+ Saturation
Shot without Tripod


7- The Call
ISO 80 75.571mm f/5.6 1/30 sec
Luminance + (Oil Painting Effect)
Shot with Tripod


8- A Cold Landscape
ISO 80 8.31mm f/5.6 1/1000sec
Graduated Filter
Shot with Tripod

9- The One Apart
ISO 80 13.36mm f/5.6 1/250sec
Shot with Tripod


10- Opposites
ISO 200 100mm f/5.7 1/160sec
Black&White
Shot with tripod

11- Thermal Pool in the Woods
ISO 200 5mm f/5.6 1/500sec
Graduated Filter
Shot with Tripod


12- Thermal Pool Along the Pines
ISO 200 5mm f/5.0 1/800sec
Clarity+, Graduated filter
Shot with Tripod


13- Fallen Giant
ISO 100 10.138mm f/3.5 1/1000sec
Black and White
Shot with Tripod
14- Log on Ice
ISO 80 28.423mm f/8.0 1/25sec
Shot with Tripod


15- Tidal Ice
ISO 80 15.956mm f/8.0 1/50sec
Shot with Tripod

16- Bearing it all at the Lake
ISO 200 94.359mm f/5.7 1/250sec
Shot with Tripod


17- Beary Cool in the Snow
ISO 200 64.733mm f/5.6 1/160sec
Shot without Tripod

18- OmNom
ISO 200 88.18mm f/5.7 1/160sec
Shot without Tripod


19- The Evergreen Giants
ISO 200 5mm f/2.8 1/800sec
Clarity +
Shot with Tripod

20- Lone Coyote McQuade
ISO 200 100mm f/8.0 1/200sec
Luminance + (Oil Painting Effect)
Shot with Tripod

21- Mountains Peaking Through the Clouds
ISO 200 8.32mm f/8.0 1/200sec
Black and White, Clarity +
Shot with Tripod


22- The Mountain
ISO 200 67.035mm f/8.0 1/250sec
Black and White, Clarity +
Shot with Tripod

23- The States of Water
ISO 200 5mm f/8.0 1/200sec
Graduated Filter
Shot with Tripod


24- Child's Moon
ISO1600 28.423mm f/4.5 1/1600sec
Treatment Brush +, Luminance +
Shot without Tripod


25- The Widow
ISO 200 5mm f/2.8 1/60sec
Shot without Tripod


26- Observing the Observer
ISO 400 95.928mm f/5.7 1/80sec
Shot without Tripod


27- The Red Hills of My Father's Home
ISO 80 54.877mm f/8.0 1/60sec
Shot with Tripod


28- The Vines of Losekamp
ISO 80 23.752mm f/8.0 1/6sec
Shot without Tripod



29- In the Woods
ISO 80 48.573mm f/5.6 1/320sec
Added effects
Shot with Tripod


30- Buried in the Snow
ISO 200 53.825 f/8.0 1/125sec
Shot with Tripod

31- Just for Dave
ISO 200 5mm f/5.6 1/500sec
Shot with Tripod

      My equipment for these pictures has been my Canon PowerShot SX10 IS; 20x Optical Zoom, 10-megapixel resolution, and DIGIC 4 Image Processor. It has a built in flash which I did not need to use for these pictures that I have chosen to post. It is a fixed lens camera and could be considered a point and shoot, be it a high end one, but I believe it has let me capture many good images. Along with this is of course a tripod which I list per picture whether it was used or not. LightRoom 3 was the editing software that I used.
      I tried to use minimal editing when I could and what I did edit was usually very non specific. The edits are fairly universal with me and my pictures, therefore I only label significant edits I have done per picture, like massive Clarity or vibrancy boosts and features such as these.With most of my pictures I used a high recovery because of my camera only being able to save the pictures in a jpg format. The places I did most of my editing were in the basic, tonal curve, and detail menus of lightroom. The majority of editing I do is very universal and minor for all the pictures, exposure tweaking, temp and tint, brightness, clarity, and with most I gave them a medium contrast tone curve.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Looking with a New Light


       Michel Gantner is a photographer I recently found who does lots of plants. I couldn't find anywhere what he is actually doing to get the glowing colors, though i'm fairly certain he is using UV photography because they aren't quite like the coloration of a negative photograph. I also couldn't find what his equipment was. These photos are from his series Jour & Nuit.
Whatever type of coloration he was using the use of the flash towards the right gives it a really cool appearance with how they are slightly transparent.
I just love how this makes it look like each of these assumed seedpods is like one of those fiber-optic lamps. But it is very interesting arrangements no matter what he is doing.
These are one of my favorite flowers and it is just cool to see it in this strange almost alien coloration.

Over all this has been a very interesting gallery to look through and enjoy.