Arch in Arch

Another capture of the Utah State Capitol Building. I really like the way this leads your eye in with light rather than lines. The details are incredible in this building, it is so interesting and makes a great photo shoot. I had my tripod with me but for some reason I was not using it. This is a 5 shot HDR from the 3rd floor. LYLE

Bride in Blue

I felt I could post this because she is not related to either of us. With these results I think I am going to start a portraiture studio. Don't you think this would look good on the mantle?

It is a 5 shot HDR that I hand held and then processed in painterly mode in Photomatix. LYLE

The Camera

I streched the limits Lyle and his camera. Bruce

Fire Hydrant

I have been looking at this shot I took at Heritage Park thinking it just wasn't what I wanted when I shot it. I cropped it 5x5 converted it to Black & White in curves layer I adjusted the sliders to get the grey scale where I wanted it then added a sepia photo filter art 86%. I finaly like the Photo. Bruce

The Pink Dome

This is an interior shot of the Utah State Capitol Building. I really liked the colors after I tonemapped the 5 shot HDR. LYLE

Intersecting Curves

I was at a photo shoot for a bride in the State Capitol Building today and took the time to shoot a few HDR's of the building without the bride. I thought you might enjoy an HDR that was processed just a bit less dramatic.
LYLE

Try Shooting These Piers

This was shot as an HDR but rather than tonemapping in Photomatix I used the fusion method and then bumped up a bit of the contrast and colors to get it the way I like them. LYLE (dreaming of warmer places)

Twins

I shot this while we were walking around the Art District. I hadn't edited it before because in the original the contrast I was trying to show wasn't there. This a 2 exposure HDR with the bottom cropped off because of the glareoff of my brothers heads. (not really they had hats on) In Photoshop I added a yellow photofilter and changed the light to vivid, that is when this photo popped likar I wanted it to. Bruce

Water Well

I didn't like this one until I worked it over in Photoscape . I used the backlight tool (175) then colorized it , used the color curves, in distorts (illusions3), antique (#7) and then Saturation curve. Bruce

Salt Lake City Revisited

I haven't been shooting in a while so I am playing with older exposures. I used paint shop and changed the colors of the sky and Shadows flipped it vertically and horizontally then in Photosape I added the reflection. I'M having fun. Bruce

A Box of River

I decided to send you a pretty view of river rapids in a box. I shot this on the last day we went to the mountains on the trail to the falls where I climbed down the rocks to get a shot of the waterfall. I thought this might warm you up a little. I processed this in Photoshop raw by changing the levels sliders on the

first exposure and left the 2nd exposure as is then made a 2 shot HDR and added a cooling filter in layers and then in Photoscape I used the backlight tool at 150 then boxed it. ENJOY IT! Bruce

Colorful Pier

I have been in sub freezing weather so long now I am also looking for warmer places to be. Cocoa Beach was one of them even though it was in a record breaking cold spell when we were there almost 2 years ago. After I tonemapped the HDR there was an area of the waves that was blown out. I probably would not be able to enlarge this due to the clone stamping I did to hide the area that was gone. I also used PhotoScape to give it a pastel filter. LYLE

Olympic Bobsled run

I have been working in the cold and snow the last 3days. I decided to return to Utah where it was warm. I didn't care for this exposure until I made it a B&W and cropped it. I bet this scene looks a lot different now. Bruce

Life on the Rocks

I'm stuck in the house today so I'm playing with some older shots. I made an hdr using 2 Photos one underexposed and the other normal plus one stop then in photoshop I used Levels, curves, Selective colors, and vibrance then in photoscape I added the frame but didn't care for any of the effects so left like it. was. Bruce

Return of the Black Birds

They came back! I changed batteries and shot some more exposures of the Black Birds. I like the top one but none of the others are. acceptable quality but I posted the other one to show the shear number of them. In the past weeks the news has reported numerous deaths of blackbirds in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, as you see it didn't get all of them. Bruce

A Skewed View

I posted this HDR photo a long time ago, it is one of the entries into Trolley Square Shopping Center. I used PhotoScape to give it this fractured view. I wasn't sure if I liked it much but it seemed to grow on me. I used the vignette #2 to darken the edge and then distort-illusion function set at 2 and then into Photoshop to darken it a bit with the levels tool. LYLE

Remembering the Black Birds

I looked out my window this morning and all I could see was a black blizzard, the birds must have been circling. I grabbed my camera ran outside and they scattered and I took 2 exposures and my battery was dead and the other shot was out of focus. The birds remind me of the trees along the road in Nebraska when I was a kid. auto f10 1/400 ISO 1000 Bruce