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That is good ol' lens flare, my friend. I was using my 14-24mm @ 14mm and the wider your lens is, the more flare you'll pick up. Sometimes it's attractive like the photo I posted, other times it's not so attractive, like this one below

Thanks Pat. I've learned a lot since I started using Photomatix. HDR is a powerful technique and I think the reason most people are turned off by HDR is due to the very unnatural and someone freakish look to them. Maybe I should say this was the reason I didn't like HDR's, it was a great way to...

Thank you all! What a great thread to wake up to this morning. It's my pleasure to tell you all that #1 is the HDR and #2 is the single photo. The tell is that photo #1 is more mottled in both the sky and the middle section compared to #2, which is much smoother and more of a single tone...

I've been working on my HDR's in an effort to get a natural look. One of these images below is a 1 full stop HDR composed with 7 individual images and the other is a single, matrix metering w/ EV = 0. The single image was PP'ed using only LR-4, nothing fancy and the HDR with Photomatix. So I'm...

Nikon 60mm f/2.8D micro lens; 55mm CP; 72mm Hoya CP; Hoya red & yellow filters & book I've been doing some house cleaning and have the following items I'd like to sell. I'm putting them on here first before I go to ebay since it's cheaper to sell here and that saves both the buyer and seller a...

Yeah, but nothing I'm overly found of. I was there after shooting buildings at UCSD and by the time I arrived the sun was high and it was a perfectly cloudless day so the shadows are very annoying. I was waiting to return on a cloudy day and a few Sunday's ago it was perfect but it turns out the...

Yesterday evening I was at Bird Rock near the edge of the tidepools waiting for the sunset and there were a couple other photographers to the right of me. I was on a slightly higher part of the rock because the tide was coming in and when it does, it comes in pretty quick. So we did the whole...

There's a very interesting interview with Charles Glatzer you can read here and has some good stuff in it but I think this section about metering worthy of re-posting :: Talk a bit about your metering method for shooting…do you use the camera light meter or a handheld meter? All exposure...

Sometimes I just marvel at the D800's auto-focus abilities. It's unlike any camera I've ever owned.

I qualified for a couple $14.99 upgrades to Windows 8 and have one that I will not be using. It expires on Feb 28th so if anyone's interested in upgrading and can use this code, PM me.

Another beach trip today with the monster 14mm

If you're feeling extra bored and want to see something different, type the word "askew" into a google search...

Very interesting new post by Nasim on the 70-200mm f/4.0. You can read the entire post HERE or just skip to the conclusion that I've cut and pasted below. Hence, unless you really need the fast aperture of f/2.8 for low-light situations and shallower depth of field beyond 13 feet (and maybe...

What a strange adventure I had today.... So as most of you know I've been going back and forth between a Manfrotto 055 and an Induro AT213, both have very nice features and many of the members here have given me excellent feedback on this tripod. So this morning I was just about ready to press...

Cool movie celebrating 80 yrs of Nikkor lenses http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Abybv2LrmK8#!

Here's a few more of today's focus stacked flowers

Visited the arboretum this morning to capture some flower images. Before focus stacking, I didn't much enjoy flower photos because only parts were in focus, even when I would stop down the lens at f-22. But now with stacking, flowers are back on the menu....so to speak. 105mm; f-8; ISO-100...

If so, have you visited the now famous parking lot where the last Plantagenet called home? I've been following this story since it was first announced that bones have been found that clearly show scoliosis and battle wounds. And now a year after having started the dig it's been officially...

This evening's sunset from Bird Rock, San Diego 14-24mm; f-8; ISO-100