Recent content by Joseph Bautsch

This is a HDR shot I took in Homer Alaska on the beach. I shot it for the depth of field. The end of the branch is only about 18 inches in front of the lens. It was shot with the Tokina AT-X AF 11-16mm f/2.8. EXIF Data: D90, Tokina AT-X Pro AF 11-16mm f/2.8, ISO 400, Focal Length 16mm, f/22...

To me it is a toss-up between the sepia and the full color, so I'll probably go with the majority and print it out in sepia for the competition. This one will be entered in the Cityscapes category. Helene was right on about the shot of the lady sitting behind the counter of a nick-nack booth...

This is the same Hard Rock shot without the sepia.

I have a North Georgia Regional Photo Club competition coming up in September. About a dozen clubs from around North Georgia will be entering photos in six categories with a limit of three per photographer. It will be a juried and judged competition. That means a jury of six people will select...

Attached is a shot of the Eagle that caused the mass flight. A juvenile Bald Eagle sitting on a ridge of the island (not in the shot) and as might be expected looking very confused. The adult birds are probably not at much risk from this youngster.

This is the second shot that placed in my photo clubs recent competition. It won honorable mention in open class out of 39 entries. This is an entirely different style of shooting from that used with the RR shot. The RR shot (posted yesterday) was a completely planned shot. This one is a shot of...

This photo won first place in my photo club 2011 2nd quarter competition. The theme was Transportation and it was competing against 43 three other entries. I took the shot almost two years age and it just made the two year time limit for entry. Another of my shots I recently took in Alaska was...

This is a shot of a very important facility in the State of Alaska. Only in south and south east Alaska is there running water to houses or sewer lines. It just gets too cold. Permafrost dosen't allow for underground water lines or sewer lines. So the next best thing is the old fashion out...

Attached are five shots if a Bald Eagle taking off in flight. It was late in the afternoon and I had to shoot at f/5.6, ISO 800, 1/250 at 300mm (70-300mm lens). I was banking on the VR to eliminate the camera shake, it got rid of some but not all. The bird was 70 to 100 feet away and these had...

These are HDR shots of two different types of Alaskan Tundra. The first one is a shot of the Polychrome Valley in Denali NP. It's an altitude tundra, over 7,000 feet above sea level which is well above the tree line at 5,000 feet. Nothing grows there except small leafy plants and various types...

Attached are three shots of kite surfers off the coast of the Kenai Peninsula, Homer Alaska. They were leaping anywhere from 10 to 12 feet. I came upon them as I was heading to the hotel at the end of the day. I only had about 30 minutes shooting time before they wrapped it up and came on shore.

This is 15 shots merged into 5 HDR photos and then stitched into a panorama. This is the Kenai Fjord Glacier located on the coast of the Kenai Peninsular, Alaska. Taken off the back of a moving 125 ft. twin hull catamaran. This is a hugh file. I had to cut the pixel numbers in half and even then...

The first shot of Mt. McKinley is not an HDR. It was shot from the back of a river jet boat doing about 35 mph. I only had only a matter of seconds to get a shot. Pick up the camera and shoot. This is a view that only 30% of all Alaska visitors ever see, a clear view of the top of the mountain...

Attached are three shots taken at the Mendenhall Glacier and Nugget Creek Falls, Juno Alaska. All three shots are HDR. I will be posting more shots of my recent Alaska trip as I get them processed. I have over 5,200 snaps to go through, many of which are HDR. The EXIF data follows each photo...

To give you and idea of what I mean I re-cropped the shot, lightened up the bee slightly and slightly darkened the flower. I would not worry about the spider web it's not significant enough to be distracting. Working with a small jpeg dosen't give the best results. You can do more in post...