Main Street Marshall Tx

I went downtown tonight and the lights are still on so I fired off a few shots hand held and this is the only one worth posting, I was standing in the middle of the street.  f6.3 1/13sec AP 18mm  Bruce

Biblical Transportation

 I was on a county road going to work on a compressor on Christmas day and couldn't pass this photo-op up. I came up with some different names but being shot on Christmas day I decided on this one. I think the owner of this little fellow could use a lesson from the Bible and tie his ass to a tree if he can't keep it in a fence. It was misting rain so I shot out my truck window not wanting to get my gear wet. I had it on AP but I didn't write down the exposure. Bruce

Care for a Cold One?

This is the same waterfall, just pulled back a bit to shoot it. I haven't messed with it much but to put the vignette on just to make it look a bit colder, not that it needed to look any colder than it was. LYLE

Icy Falls

Went up on the trail to Lake Blanch where we went when you were here, things are a bit different this time of the year. I shot this at 1/6 sec, ISO 400, f25, 300 mm in shutter priority. It took several tries to get the water smoothed out and not over expose the shot. Sure got my toes cold doing it. LYLE

Hilltop View of East Texas

I was working on a hilltop and thought the view was beautiful so I tried to capture it with My camera before I left. You can see the colors of fall but it doesn't show the rolling hills. This is a 3 exposure panorama ISO 250 1/2500 sec f 6.3 28mm  high noon  Bruce

Caution

Watch your step and don't fall down! You don't know what is under one of those rocks not to mention the obvious.    This is a 3 shot HDR, f18, ISO 200, 65mm Bruce

The Lone Surviver

I broke the rules on this one the flower is almost centered. I shot this on Thanksgiving Day F8 1/10 sec  ISO 200 18mm. Bruce

Sunset over Lake Austin

Statue of Liberty

My Granddaughter said she was the Statue of Liberty I shot a  bracketed Photo of her and the -2 silhouetted her with the sunset and I just had to share it. F6.3 1/60 sec ISO 200 and a few adjustments in photoshop  Bruce

Pear on Ice

This is what the Pear Trees look like here in Utah. Don't you want to come visit? This is a 5 shot HDR. LYLE

Crying Leaf

 I. was going into one of the locations at work and saw this lonely sweetgum leaf. I took a couple of shots at differentf steps. This one makes the leaf standout with the leafs behind it out of focus.  f9 1/30 sec ISO200 Bruce

The Wave

I was just playing with the photos that I took while in Hawaii last year, (day dreaming about going again someday) and decided if I could make one of them look like I remembered it. I shot this with my Cannon waterproof camera, I didn't want to get my good camera wet. After just a bit of work it began to look the way I wanted. Enjoy...LYLE

East Texas Ranch

I have wanted to shoot this for a longtime I first never took the time to stop when I'm driving by. This is a 3. shot panorama I enhanced the colony little things are pretty dry. I didn't writedown my camera settings but I used AE 200 ISO  Bruce

Bale Ejector

Nothing runs like a deere. Or is that Nothing runs, like a deere? Actually I like John Deere equipment and hope you enjoy this shot of an old baler. LYLE

Case Tractor

I was on a job site filming (??) the placement of some footings for a training film. Sitting next to the site was some old rusty farm equipment, I knew you would enjoy seeing it. I have a couple other shots that I will post in a day or so. LYLE

Monster Machine

 I was driving by and trees had the view blocked until this opening so I stopped and shot out of the window If you look at the right you can see a track hoe and bulldozer, they look like toys next to this dragline. This is a 3 shot HDR, AP, f8, 35 mm, I'm not real happy with the quality there was too much haze in the air but doubt I will get another chance to shot this one this close. Bruce

Standing Sentinel

This tree seems to be trying to protect unwary persons from falling over the edge of this cliff. If you can zoom in enough you can see many of the features of Canyonlands National Park in Southern Utah. I really liked the clouds and contrails in the sky. LYLE

Arch to Arch

This is a view of Delicate Arch through a Pinion Pine tree that had a very similar shape. The stone arch was a long ways away so I had to use my big lens to even get it close for most of my shots. There were also about 50 people standing under it so I had to Photoshop them out. There was a very deep canyon between me and the arch from this side, maybe 300 feet deep or so. Access from this direction is not possible but the view is good. Lots of climbing up slopes and scrambling over slick rock, all in all a good time. LYLE

Blushing Bradford

 It rained today and we really need it. I came home and my Bradford Pear had turned red and I wanted to show the raindrops on the leafs. The wind was gusting and the sky was cloudy so this is about the only one that turned out.  Bruce

Silhouette of a Tree

This light painted tree is at Dead Horse Point. I shot it at f4, ISO 400, for 30 sec with the 10-24 lens and no filter. I am amazed at how far the Earth turns in just 30 sec as seen in the streaks left by the stars. I used a Ryobi flashlight to paint the tree and ran it up and down the tree about 3 times. LYLE

Big Dipper at Dead Horse Point

On every trip we try a little light painting when it gets dark. I love the Big Dipper and always include at lease one photo of it. This tree was dead but still standing, on the desert not too much is there to cause the dead trees to rot (no water) so they stand long after they die. I hit this one with a beam of light through my fingers to better direct the light just to the tree. I was concerned about the noise in the sky but I think much of it is actually the multitude of stars that are seen in the area. There was still a lot of light from the setting sun and a ranger station to the north. Manual mode shutter speed 30 sec. ISO 400, f4, 10-24 wide angle at 10mm, and was shooting without any filter, not even a UV. LYLE

View thru Mesa Arch

A couple of friends and I go on a photo safari every fall, this year we chose Canyonlands National Park in Southern Utah. This arch is located there and is quite famous. It is actually quite a small one at only about 25 feet wide but due to the view through it it is very photographed. We were there about 2:00 in the afternoon so the light was not the best but it was all I had to work with. This is a 5 shot HDR with my 18-105 lens at 18mm without any filter. Shutter speeds were from 1/200 to 1/13 sec. ISO 100 and f16. LYLE

shades of fall 2

this is the color version

Bradford Pear Tree

Linda and I planted this 2 years ago it has pretty blooms in the spring and bright fall colors. It doesn't feel like fall yet the highs are around 90° and lows around 60° I guess the leafs are turning because it is so dry. I grabbed my camera put it on manual and set the white balance and took 3 shot brackets but the wind was. blowing and I couldn't make them HDR's I tried. I setup my tripod and moved all around the tree shooting these are my favorites. f9 1/160 ISO200 Macro Bruce

Shades of fall

I shot this today and had no intention of making it a  B&W. I was adjusting the colors in Photoshop and turned it B&W and made it more of an abstract. I adjusted the colors with the levels filter and then converted it.  ISO200  1/160  f9 Macro about 6" Bruce

Reeds

I am without my camera right now, Ann needed it to shoot a couple of families so she borrowed it. I then borrowed Brad's D40 just so I could still take a shot once in a while. This is one of them. I used my 10-24 wide angle lens with a Singh-ray filter on it. The filter was a door prize that I won from Adam Barker Photography while I was at one of his workshops. It is a 77mm LB color combo polarizer. I still have much to learn to figure it out, but it sure enriched this scene. I will get my D200 back later this week, then I hope to do more with it. I set this shot at ISO 200, f25, 14mm, aperture priority, 1/5 sec shutter. It was also shot in JPEG. The water was quite rough from the wind so that is why I wanted to use a bit slower shutter speed so I set the aperture as small as I could to smooth the water. The filter also gives a -2f.  LYLE

Sabine River Bed

 I'm standing in about 5 feet of water if we weren't in a drought! This is the same river that the bridge to nowhere is on, I'm about 10 miles down river from it on highway59. I am about 20 feet from the end of the boat ramp, the end that is usually underwater.  f18 62mm 200ISO        Bruce 

Driftwood

 This is my first exposures today in color the log just blends in with everything else but when I converted it to B&W I got it to look like I wanted it to, f10  18mm 200ISO  Bruce

Old Farm House

 I shot this free hand the top photo is a six shot HDR cropped and the bottom is a single shot cropped to straighten. I was in a hurry so I shot it in program mode. The bottom one was shot at 1/250  f8 ISO200  both at 44mm from the same spot but the B&W isn't part of the 6 shot HDR. Bruce

The Red Chair

This is a 5 shot HDR of the parlor in the Inn on the Hill here in SLC, UT. After tonemapping in Photomatix I used Photoscape to put a watercolor filter on it and a #2 vignette. I printed it out at 8x12 and really like the way it looks. LYLE

Brighter Bouquet

I selected each bud individually and feathered its edges and used levels to lighten them to get rid of the 'bronze' look to them. I think it is much better. Thanks for the discussion about it so I could make it better. LYLE

Bouquet step 5

This is the 5th step. LYLE

Bouquet

This arrangement of flowers sits in the lobby of the Inn on the Hill in SLC, UT. I shot it with the same settings as the next photo. I used Photoshop to lighten the edges with the marquee tool, selections / modify to feather the edges 200 units and then inverse the selection. I then used the levels tool to lighten it with the sliders. LYLE

A Pretty Figure

This was shot in a bed and breakfast in Salt Lake City. It sits on the newel post of the stairway in the main lobby. It needed to have the background seperated from the figure and this background from onOne really seemed to do it. It is a five shot HDR set at -.7EV, 160 ISO, 8 Aperture with a 10-24 wide angle lens. LYLE

Barn and Combine

I "discovered" this photo in one of my files. The scene is in Northern Idaho and was taken on our way to see Damon and Jess in Spokane. I used that Nikon D3s to shoot it as a HDR. I also used that onOne program to get the background look. LYLE

From The Top of Sundance

 It is 105 degrees today so I wanted to stay inside and play with some older images. I wasn't planning on posting this but I really like the way it turned out. All I did was touchup some spots and convert it to Black and White with a custom color tint and play with the sliders to give it some more contrast. Bruce

Lake Murvual

I was crossing Lake Murvual yesterday and decided to shoot it. This is the Northwest end 4 shot panorama. How would you like to ski on this lake? Bruce  

An Open Invitation

This photo was okay but was distracting by all the other stuff around it so I cropped it down and put a burnt edge on it, much better. LYLE

Brigham's Mirror

I took a tour of the Lion House in Salt Lake City, it was the residence of Brigham Young. I didn't have my tripod so had to shoot it hand held. It actually came out pretty cool after tonemapping. I like the way I can see outside through the window reflected in the mirror. There is a little noise but somehow it doesn't bother me. LYLE

clouds no - Smoke Yes!

 This is the view from my front yard. The fire is about 15 miles away and we are ready to evacuate. Bruce

Barn Cat

I caught this cat by this old barn but nearly ruined my camera taking it. I had my 10-24 wide angle lens on and switched it to the 18-105 zoom lens. When I did that a little breeze blew dust inside the camera, there were about 50 little specks that had to be clone stamped out to save the photo. LYLE

Speed Boat

I found a new program (read that as in bought) and was playing with certain filters that it comes with. This one was kinda fun for the right setting. Other than that the photo is not especially compelling, I just like the filter in this instance.  LYLE

ITALY

 I decided to combine photos I took in 1972 I used Elements 8 to make the collage. Starting at the top left is the entrance to the Galleria Toledo in Naples, next the Dome is Il Dumo in Florence, then the Castle Nuovo in Naples, then Michelangelo's tumb it is in Il Duomo in Florence and last is his statue of David also in Florence. Bruce

Pitchfork Heaven

This lonely pitchfork is resting peacefully in this scene. It is a 5 shot HDR taken from outside the building through a window. LYLE

Blue Barn

You may wonder about the title for this photo. It is because Ann had borrowed my camera and I didn't think about the white balance before shooting. It was quite blue because she had been shooting indoors and had it set for some interior type of lighting, it didn't work too well outdoors. I just couldn't bring it back enough to get the blue out of the wood grain so I turned it black and white. LYLE

The Thin Building

This is a very thin building. It is here in SLC. I think after the belt tightening that the banks have had to do they will all look like this. Actually it is just a front to impress investors. The building extends back at a 45d angle and I just got into the right position to make it look strange. LYLE

The Parthenon

I spent more time in Athens than any other port and visited the Parthenon on Acropolis (I always thought the Acropolis was the temple until I looked it up). I figured you would like the detail shot so I brought you to it like I first saw it. Bruce