timsdd aka Tim's Digital Darkroom

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….

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!