Artistic Shots- Well thought out, framed (positioned), artistic shots only please.

[Lost Canadian]

Thanks KC. Living around the great lakes makes water a key feature for outdoor shooters. Here are a couple more from last night. The sun was very bright while it was setting so I decided to use it and go high-key with a couple swans for the first shot below. I had to add the boarder to define the edge of the image for display here. The second was pretty straight forward, shot when the sun was a little lower and softened up.

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[Overland Hadley]

Good work Trevor.

 

[FishPOET]

Cajon Pass

 

[Rob O]

I went out for a canoe ride after dinner tonight, upon returning while pulling up to the seawall, I was presented with this lovely graphic. Funny how ugly can sometimes be beautiful.

Awesome find and shot Trevor ... perfectly composed and captured. Of all the abstracts you've been posting lately, this is definitely my fav!

 

[Tucson T4R]

I'm going to ask the mods to delete this thread. You guys are driving me crazy! :bigbossHL:

Maybe someday..... :sombrero:

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Since Trevor posted a High Key, I thought I'd throw one in.

One of my fav's from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show

 

[Rob O]

Since Trevor posted a High Key, I thought I'd throw one in.

One of my fav's from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show

Very cool Pat ... this is great. And I love Lambos in white.

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Thanks Rob, I love them in any color, but the white car with a bright white background was just begging for a high key shot!

 

[nwoods]

Windmill driven well at Government Hole along the Mojave Trail. Cottonwood trees to provide structure. Real colors!

 

[Rob O]

Windmill driven well at Government Hole along the Mojave Trail. Cottonwood trees to provide structure. Real colors!

Nice Nathan ... great color. Love how white Cottonwoods get, and they look great against that deep blue sky. Polarizer ... or just the right time of day/angle of the sun?

 

[Rob O]

Chicken Point (Sedona, AZ)

The view from Chicken Point, along <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/recreation/red_rock/broken-arrow-tr.shtml">the Broken Arrow Trail</a> in Sedona, AZ., near sunset. (Awesome little 4x4 trail BTW, with a couple very cool (and challenging) parts)

6-exposure HDR (+/-2EV), generated and tone mapped in DPHDR then blended with the -1EV file in CS4 (to sort out the sky) with final post processing from there.

Note that the rock formations to my right (right of frame) completely shrouded the sun which was setting on the other side and they were 100% shaded (camera side was completely in the shadows). I look forward to returning at sunrise to get shots with the sun on the rock face.



This is the -1EV file(really only -0.33EV from the 0EV exposure), unprocessed except for size-for-web.

 

[nwoods]

Nice Nathan ... great color. Love how white Cottonwoods get, and they look great against that deep blue sky. Polarizer ... or just the right time of day/angle of the sun?

Right time of day.

 

[nwoods]

Wow, I love that B&W HDR shot. That is awesome. I really need to learn to do this. I tried two HDR shots last weekend, but they did not turn out at all. I think I have some fundamental misunderstandings. My first one was a similar lighting scenario to your Chicken Point photo, but the people in the image moved too much between frames to use it, and I was resting on a rock, not a tripod, and manually pushing the shutter caused more wiggle. No photo to upload for display, it was not salvageable.

My second attempt was better, but didn't get ANY range out of it. 3 shot HDR, +/- 2ev:

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Rob, that B&W is outstanding and cover material in my book!! I'd have that thing blown up monster size and hung to the wall!

Nathan, those colors in the windmill shot are outstanding considering you didnt have a polorizer on the camera! Right Place at the Right Time I guess!

 

[Darton]

Here are a few of mine.

I'll post some more later.