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Sep 02 2011

Pink Mountain Mist Moment

Couple months ago we went up to the top of Pink Mountain, which is almost halfway between Fort St. John and Fort Nelson. While on the top we watched a storm system come in.

The wide angle lens, which is the Tokina 11-16mm, really made this shot seems all that much more powerful. I’m still trying to master the tonemapping techquie or HDR. Currently I’m struggling with making the images come out with detialed enough to look clear. Granted for this image, I know the f/stop would have had to have been around f/16.

ISO200, 11mm, f/3, 1/2500 sec

Aug 06 2011

View of Fort St John from up top

I had the chance this past Friday to go up top of one of the hotels in Fort St John and take some pictures. I’m use to Yellowknife, where there are large 14 story building and getting to see the sky scape. I think seeing a city from a high up angle can give you a better appreciation of it, unfortunately Fort St John doesn’t have many of those building. The hotel I got to up actually only had 6 stories, which is not much at all

There is no real reason why I took these photos. I’m sure they will be used frequently in the future for various projects though. My view feature Fort St John busiest road in town, 100 Ave, which runs through the heart of town. The reason I went and took the photos on Friday because clouds were presented perfectly. Having nothing but blue sky is beautiful as well, but the clouds add a whole new dimension to the photos, which is what I wanted. I was shooting in RAW and for the most part in Aperture Priority mode with an f/stop of 11 and ISO of 100-325. Once on the computer I did Tone Map them to bring out shadows and colour.

Enjoy and leave your feedback.

May 05 2011

HDR to the Max

Having liked HDR photography for a long time and slowly getting into it, I went a little over and beyond with these photos. Normally I don’t make them so harsh, but this time I kind of liked the way they looked.

I still haven’t mastered the technique, but it is coming along. There are things I want to improve about my HDR photos like quality, definition and colours.

What do you think so far though?

Dec 10 2010

My attempt at HDR Photography

It is something I have wanted to do for a long time, but never really put any effort into doing. Until the other day when for some reason I grabbed one of the tripods at the office and took it out to the front porch.

If you don’t know, HDR photos are actually a combination of at least 3 images all with different exposures. More common than not, the 3 photos have exposures of -3, 0, +3.

Then using a program like Photoshop or Photomatix you can combine those photo. You also have a lot you can change and play with to make the photos look the way you want.

I of course, though, used a preset and went with it. At first I like the way they look, but after staring at them, I begin to think they are a little over done.

I definitely want to try and play will these types of photos more. Some say they are over done, while I really like looking at them.

Sep 17 2010

Photos By The Water

I’m back logged, I know. I’ll get caught up, eventually

There are some of my photos from my adventure today. Drove between East Pine, BC and Chetwynd, BC and took photos. Most of the photos were taken beside a water source of some sort.

Check them out and tell me what you think.

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