Written by timsdd on Saturday, May 12th, 2012 in Austin Texas Pictures, Photography.
You never know what you might find atop the cliffs @ the 360 Pennybacker bridge in Austin, TX!
I was up there scouting the bridge for a sunset walk a couple weeks ago and much to my dismay these folks showed up and put on a little side show!
My only lament is that they never contacted me, I wouldn’t mind shooting them again!
Written by timsdd on Friday, April 20th, 2012 in HDR - High Dynamic Range.
I went with B&W for a lot of these for a couple of reasons,
1) the buildings lend themselves nicely to it, and B) something about the processing left me not so jovial about the results. It’s probably a combination of things (isn’t it always). I suspect in some cases I did not go far enough -Ev and in other cases things just too muddled (saturated).
REgardless, I wanted to venture out and try something different :)
Funny thing about this one, I stood on a transformer outside the center field fence in order to take this shot.
You can see the fence at the bottom of the frame, my tri-pod was tall enough to clear the fence and between it and the transformer I was able to balance it to take the shot(s).
24mm TSE…look how straight up & down these are :)
Haha, I left my shadow in this b/c it looks like I am balancing my camera on top of my head….
Written by timsdd on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 in HDR - High Dynamic Range.
Here’s another ‘decent’ example of what the tilt-shift lens does for you in architecture photos.
I say decent because it is shot at a different focal length than the regular lens. I’ll have to make sure to shoot both @ 24mm next time!
TSE, as you can see it really levels the building more to what you see with your eyes….
12mm, where with the wide angle you really get distortion from the lens…which can add a neat element to the photos sometimes.
These next few were extremely difficult since the lighting was so vastly different.
The HDR helped but it’s not seamless in some cases. I probably should have used more exposures though I think most of them are easily 6 frames per.
Another with the tilt-shift, it’s a fun lens! :)
This was like the only cloud during this sunset so I had to make sure to hit it whenever I could!
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20, ESV)
