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Birches

(Vertical Pan; 1.0 sec @ f/14; ISO 100; 0 EV; FL 70mm w/ Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L and my 5D Mark II)

There was a short break in the rains this morning so we headed out in search of something to photograph. I followed the fog to the top of South Mountain and Lehigh University’s Mountaintop Campus. [...]

Sunrise on the North Shore (New Jersey)

This is another image from the past Sunday’s trip to the North Shore. Sunrise was at 0658. We left home at 0455 and it is an hour and 45 minute drive. So doing the math, you will see that we arrived in that period between civil twilight and actual sunrise. I knew exactly where I [...]

Two More

… Lensbaby images. I hear the groans. I understand. I attended a presentation last night by Tony Sweet, he of the workshop I attended back in late October and one heck of a photographer. He also happens to be a Lensbaby “guru” and presented some Lensbaby images during the course of his presentation.

I also had [...]

And Now for Something a Little Different – The Old Covered Bridge (IR and Topaz)

Objective: Experiment with IR images for the purpose of taking them beyond the typical IR landscape image; To utilized some of the more creative techniques that I have been using with color images on IR images.

Location: Bogert’s Bridge, Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pa.

Time: Today at High Noon

Conditions: Sunny; Shooting position shaded by a large tree

Camera: Canon [...]

Early Morning Surf

(1.0 sec @ f/22; ISO 100; +1 EV)

My wife an I made an early morning jaunt down to the New Jersey shore, something we will do often between now and say, mid-April. The area we usually visit is great for wintering ducks and shorebirds because there are a series of 10 or more lakes just [...]

The Colors of Autumn (Before & After Topaz)

I love photography. And I love creating realistic images… images that capture what is before me. But the creative side of me continues to want to experiment both in-camera and in post-processing. And I am finding the Topaz Suite (Adjust, Detail, Clean, Simplify, etc.) to be a marvelous tool for releasing the inner artist in [...]

Passion vs. Innocence

Last winter I was working on a series of rose images in which I tried to capture the emotions/feelings connoted by different color roses. A red rose connotes passion/love while a white rose connotes innocence/purity. Last year’s image were, for the most part, macro/close-up images of single roses.

While I was at the market yesterday (remember [...]

Pom-Pom

This is what I do when the weather refuses to cooperate. For the past couple of days, the weather has been cold, windy and rainy. Not exactly the kind of weather I want to wander around in with camera gear if I don’t have to. So what to do? First, I went to market and [...]

Digital Art Alert – Autumn Leaves

I continue to be smitten by the Topaz Suite for Photoshop and I continue to experiment just because it is so much fun.

This is obviously an autumn foliage image from our trip to Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (PA) this past weekend. While I liked the photograph as it came out of the camera, [...]

Can’t Tell the Forest from the Trees?

(1/2 sec @ f/8; ISO 125; 0 EV; Cloudy WB)

How about something a little different!

We had a great day Saturday up in the Delaware Water Gap. I loved having the opportunity to photograph those waterfalls. But I did shoot more than just waterfalls that morning. This particular image was made along the trail out to [...]