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A couple more from today. Snow, slippery slopes and stray branches kept me from getting some of the angles I wanted. Bad enough that most of these were shot from a one lane bridge with traffic coming blindly onto it from both directions. Yellow jacket and red cap helps. :)

2014-032: Lovely morning along the Musconetcong River in Changewater, NJ. I went down to try and capture what's left of the train trestle that was there (a series of rather high, monolithic stone structures), but got more enamored with the frozen formations along the quick moving river...

I absolutely love this idea for a monthly thread as it allows everyone to participate, and most of all it forces those of us who may be shooting every day to cull through the images and come up with only one (I'm hearing that in the Highlander voice in my head). Whittling things down has always...

2014-031(b): Fotojack had an "HDR or not" thread earlier this week and in it we spoke about the dynamic range of the full frame Nikons. In it I did a quick and dirty +/-2EV HDR image using a single frame and making 2 virtual copies in LR, one +2EV and one -2EV. There was a situation today...

2014-031: One month in the books. Proud of myself, and feel it's definitely helped my photography, making sure I pick up the camera every day. This shot is reminiscent of one I took a couple weeks ago, but I like this one much better. Ash tree against a very stony, snow covered hillside...

It could be that from a composition perspective you might be expecting to see the lips at that intersection of thirds? I think it has more to do with the subtle transition from chin to neck, and I believe if the shadow under the jawline is burned in just a touch it seems less empty without...

Tried that one again this morning, just for kicks, and because I hate "throw-away's". Still not happy, but at least I'm still kicking after 30 days.

2014-030: Not an awful lot of time today and almost thought I'd have an absolute throw away. Then I saw this little twisty headed owl thing my wife had on a lampstand. So now I don't have an absolute throw away, just something better than a food shot or another flower shot. :-)

Well, I've been trying valiantly for days to get a B&W print out of my Epson R280 but it seems to only want to combine colors to make B&W. I can print big bold text in perfect black, but not photos. I've tried everything from making sure that every available option to print in grayscale...

There's a discussion in the D800 forum about using the back button for focusing and I didn't want to derail that discussion so I'm posting this here. I love the ability of the D800 to use both the shutter release and the back button to focus before shooting. I'm used to the half-press, but...

2014-029: Went back to Easton to check on the Delaware today. It's still there. Here it is flowing to the Phillipsburg Free Bridge.

OK, so I reinstall, because I have nothing better to do but complain about something I'm not going to use I open GIMP and this is what it looks like... Really?! That's what you want your users to experience the first time they open a product?! So I rearrange the middle window, since that's...

I find that black and white is less about capturing something specific than it is about evoking a specific feeling or emotion. In my photographs at present, at least. For example, in the B&W from the 27th it was all about the look created by this flower unraveling that reminded me of the inside...

2014-028: After staring at the B&W rose above for a while I started wondering what it would have looked like in Infrared. So today, without setting up lights, I gave it a shot. Note how all the roses are about the same shade of nothing (L-R across the top goes White, Red, Red).

I've often read the adage, "If you want to really learn to take photographs, start with a pin hole camera". My thought has always been, "Yeah. OK.", and then I go off with my SLR. So when I saw this I was rather intrigued. I've got 4 body caps lying around, 3 of which are almost never on the...

2014-027: It's a very special person's birthday today, so I've been building up to it. These came in on Saturday and I really liked the way they looked today. So during a conference call I broke out the lights. B&W Macro Lightroom Only Edits

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I'm with Geoff on the dynamic range performance of the D800. Here's a shot I took a couple mornings ago as it came out of the camera, 30 second exposure at f/4... Here's the same photo with a +5EV adjustment in Lightroom... The amount of light captured by the sensor is amazing. In the...