Archive | Outdoors

12 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Night 2 Day

This might be the shortest post yet.  Just some surprising results from a curious click on “auto tone” in Lightroom.  Bet you’ll like this one Nate, it turned my too short of a night exposure into a nice daytime exposure.  
I suppose it did such a nice job due to a lack of light [...]

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26 May 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Infinite Little Planets…

To be found just on our planet!  Am I addicted to making them if I walk around visualizing what my surroundings would look like deformed into one?  Maybe not, but once you have to go though the process to find out then maybe so!

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26 May 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Wide Angle Crazy!

I’ve just been going nuts with my new Tokina 11-16mm wide angle lens, which is probably why it’s been awhile since I’ve posted.  Figured I would put up some low-rez versions of the reflection maps I’ve been making.  Also been toying with some HDR lighting from a few of these and getting some okay results.  [...]

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29 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Noonan Park Geese and Two Ducks

Stopped at Noonan Park here in Alexandria and grabbed a few pictures of some geese and two nervous ducks.

I hope it’s not only animators that think it would be hilarious to see this goose tip-toe along the edge of the water like this.  

This one must know it’s on camera.

And finally these two, as [...]

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25 March 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Minneapolis Little Planets

Went shooting with Kutz in Minneapolis last Sunday, we checked out the sculpture garden and I even talked him into standing in a parking lot downtown while I snapped one.  He took dozens of pics on our scout and I ended up with a few, mostly panoramas!  Next time we’ll have to go macro hunting [...]

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17 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Muddy Speedway

We got some sun for once here in Alexandria so I had to run out after work with the camera and take advantage!  Snuck out into the middle of the stock car track here to take a panoramic.  Which turned out was still quite muddy, but I was committed at this point.  Of course when [...]

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