I made an HDR version of this, tweaked it heavily in Photoshop, and titled it “HDRifying,” but this one looked better to me: everything lines up better and more graphically. I tweaked this a bunch, but ended up going with a rather simple cocktail: reduce saturation by 30% or so and pump vibrancy to bring …
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Almost as soon as I pulled out of the driveway to start the 7 hour drive back to TX yesterday, I began to crave cigarettes something. In Atoka, OK, I bummed a cigarette from a nice lady at a gas station where I stopped to get a bottle of water. It was nasty, and I stubbed it …
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Well, today was the last day to wake up in the Arkansas mountains for awhile. I woke up early, finished packing, sipped coffee for awhile, said goodbye to Momma, and headed back home just as the sun crested the horizon. The first hour or so of the drive was beautiful, and I snapped about 150 pictures—out …
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Well, it took me a few thousand tries, but I think I captured the forest, maybe. And I had plenty of battery power… just popped in the spare today, and still have ~75% charge after over 600 pictures. And given the volume of shots this trip, it’ll be a bit before I get everything processed. …
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So here I am, vacationing in the mountains of NW Arkansas, surrounded by colorful fall foliage, wide varieties of wildlife, and virtually limitless scenery, and I’m submitting a macro flower shot that could’ve been taken pretty much anywhere for the 365 picture? Yep. It’s not that I didn’t take any landscape pictures—rather, it’s not that …
You know that saying “can’t see the forest for the trees?” It’s true. Shooting the forest—or wooded areas in general—is rather difficult: there are all those trees in the way. There are a few options: shoot overview-type shots, which can be rather uninspiring; capture single elements that transmit the idea of the forest (as in …
Well, the drive up was safe and beautiful (once the sun came up). I left super early, and so I arrived super early, and also got to miss the rather dull parts of southern Oklahoma that make the trip so endless. I’m not entirely satisfied with this picture. I couldn’t really crop it in a …
