timsdd aka Tim’s Digital Darkroom

Here is a great example of how DOF plays an important role in pictures you take.
These are the same images but usi8ng different Depth of Field:

Taken @ F/16

Taken @ F/4

In this case (and many like it) the shot taken @ F/4 is a better image because the larger aperture softens the background. You have to find a balance though, too shallow and your subject might not be in focus (enough).

The next is a series of shots that I took from reflection in the Sugar River right outside Claremont NH

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All of the next images are HDR’s. I really like them because they bring out a rich vibrant color and I am ALL about deep color saturation with my work.

The only downside with HDR’s is that the images tend to get a little noisy and of course you have to take that many more shots. You can actually do HDR’s from a single RAW file but you get much better results using 3-5 images, being able to cover a much larger range in terms of tone (exposure).

I just love these brick buildings, you just don’t se them down here in TX like this.

I did a little PS’ing her with this image. There was an ugly storm drain and some concrete & rusty cables, I had to lose them!

I was loving the way the light backlit the web for this guy. It’s like an electric web!

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These are photos that I took on your 2 week vacation to VT in 2007, and I’m just now getting to them for editing!!

Maybe that’s why I did not go crazy with pics this year, knowing I still had all of these to work with once I got home. Then again, these are in the fall whereas we were there in the summer this year.

These first 5 are actually in Claremont, NH ~ 12 miles from where I am from in VT. Shocking to me is that this was the first time I ever explored this spot for pictures having driven by it hundreds of times as a kid growing up. Of course now there is actually a place to park and is a little more accessible than way back when, but it’s amazing how much you miss or take for granted as a kid!

Well the res on the google sat view stinks, but this is looking towards Water St from North St.

you can see the falls ~ 1/2 way between the 103/120 markers on the map

I bet those buildings would be most excellent to check out inside but obviously they would be locked down….no trespassing and all that.

The 2 above are HDR images with my ND filter @ 15-30s @ F/16.

The 3 below are also with the NDF and are 30s exposures @ the same F. So as you can well imagine, using the NDF is like shooting @ night with really long exposures…you don’t have lots of time to explore!

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