This week I have a very wide panorama photo of a nightscape with a line of fire. This is an old one that I just now got around to putting together. I was burning some grass on my property a couple years ago and of course I thought I should take a photograph of it. This panorama is made up of 12 photos that I had to splice together manually in Photoshop, as the photoshop function wasn’t working for whatever reason. This doesn’t show up that great in blog size, so click on the name below to get it in a free wallpaper format of 2500 pixels wide.
Tags: 52 week project, fire, landscape, night, nightscape, panorama, sky
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Here is a bonus photo for this week. Last night I was driving home in the dark and saw the Aurora Borealis, aka the Northern Lights. I haven’t seen this phenomenon in a few years so I obviously had to jump at the chance to photograph them. Problem was, by the time I got out in the dark area and set up, they were mostly faded away. But I still ended up with this result. I was also able to fit in Ursa Major, aka the Big Dipper. Hope you like it.
Aurora Borealis
Tags: aurora borealis, landscape, night, sky, stars, ursa major
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This is a bonus photo for this week, as I won’t be working on a long form blog post.
This is an HDR shot from my backyard. My wife and I had just gone for a canoe ride on the river here and I loved the sunset, so when we were finished I grabbed my camera, tripod, and set out to try an HDR. I took 11 exposures ranging from 1/400 to 1/8000 at f/3.5 and ISO 400.
Shot with Canon 40D with EF28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 USM set at 28mm. I used the auto-bracketing feature multiple times. HDR put together in Photomatix with some minor editing in Photoshop.
Sunset Over the River
Tags: bracket, Canon, exposure, HDR, landscape, Photomatix, Photoshop, river, sky, sunset, trees, water, wide
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Just a quick post this week featuring a new fine art photograph. I titled this In the Home of the Sky due to the huge multitude of black birds roosting in this large oak tree. With the leaves gone, the top of the tree no longer seems entirely its own entity, but also a part of the sky. The birds find this their home, such a handy place to be able to go in and out of quickly. When I went up to them they were quite comfortable and not willing to leave, not that they should. They were in this tree in this field ready to scrounge the ground for any scraps of the years harvest left to remain.
This was taken late in the day into the sun to give the birds and the tree the most contrast and impact possible. The sky was somewhat dramatic, adding to the feel of the dead tree.
I hope you enjoyed this photograph. It is available for purchase as a fine art print. Just use the print order form here. I’d also love to hear any comments from you.
Tags: birds, dramatic, fine art, landscape, oak, sky, sun, tree
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I recently put a whole slew of stuff in the various portfolio sections. Some of it has been shown on the blog before, but I’ll repost them here anyway.
These are available to order as a fine art print:
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Tags: bug, business card, clouds, Design, graphic novel, hands, illustration, insect, landscape, letterhead, logo, maternity, moon, mosquito hawk, moth, newborn, panorama, photography, portfolio, pregnancy, Prisoner, river, road, spider, storm, trees, wasp, web, yellow jacket
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