What a great trip! A really nice group of people and lots of new friends. Costa Rica Expeditions were great and the stars of the show were our driver and local guide Jorge and William. We did not get much sleep, especially at the start of the tour as we were up at 4:30 and [...]
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February 26, 2010 0I have been looking back at old files and wondering if there are ways to “fix” images to see whether they can be turned into sellers. Sometimes it is not a case of a lack of skill or craft that results in a bad image, but, as in the case of this picture I took [...]
After snow yesterday the weather progressed from a dull gray this morning to a clear night. I took advantage and made another panoramic of the on-going revitalization of the arts district. The structure in the foreground is the newly-completed, world-class Margot & Bill Winspear Opera House. The pictures that follow were taken a week or [...]
As autumn gets closer my mind turns to the migration of the monarchs. We are already seeing some here in Texas on their way back to their wintering grounds in the pine forests of Michoacan. The following images were taken in January 2008 deep in the forest where the light was pretty scarce. Unfortunately I [...]
Previously I had uploaded an image of the Texas State Capitol with the lights on. They came on pretty late and were really bright. I quite like this hdr without the exterior lights on. I need to be in Austin after UT wins a football game. Apparently the university lights up the tower in the [...]
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July 30, 2009 0We had a pretty wet and blustery day today here in Dallas so I took the opportunity to do some scouting for a shoot. Eventually, after visiting two buildings, I found the view that I REALLY liked and got permission to photograph the same evening as I suspected that it was going to clear up. [...]
This image was taken 200 feet above Houston from a block of apartments. The hdr conversion gives a real depth to the image, and the detail in all of the different light sources is retained.
I dragged my self out of bed at 4:45 this morning to check the weather. I was due to be in nearby Fort Worth at 6:00 to shoot a backlit sunrise shot of the skyline. It was pretty cloudy but there were one or two small holes in the clouds so I decided to make [...]
Since discovering hdr I have begun using the process as a tool to help me produce images with a dynamic range (tonal range) that I originally thought I saw when I took the picture. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of images out there doing the rounds of the social networking sites like Flickr which [...]
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June 26, 2009 1I spent yesterday evening updating images of the Fort Worth skyline. I hadn’t shot it since two tornados blew through in March of 2000. Almost 10 years on and Forth Worth has fixed up all the damage and it remains the friendly “living” city that it has always been. As I was leaving at around [...]
When you are out there photographing, don’t you just hate those pesky wires. Recently I was at a “chocolate box” gas station and it was surrounded by wires in all directions. I tool about 45 minutes and an hdr conversion to get the final result. I love Photoshop and Photomatix Pro. OK here is a [...]
This image was taken inside the lighthouse at Point Loma near San Diego, CA. I like the way the light is coming in through the door at the bottom of the steps! I used Photomatix Pro to make the image.
The weather is often a problem when traveling to faraway places. Five years ago I was in Hong Kong and for the three days that I was there the weather was horrible. There was a pervasive, soup-like haze, and any images made of the landscape looked like they were shot through a piece of gauze. [...]
