Big View
If you ever get to York county take some time to hike up High Point Park outside of York, PA. The park overlooks the Susquehanna valley and has spectacular views. I used a tripod to turn my camera vertical and panned eight images to make a panorama. The eight photos were then uploaded to Adobe Camera Raw and then into Photoshop CC. Once in Photoshop CC go to file > to scripts > to load files into stacks. Choose add files from desktop, check off the attempt to align files box. Once the files are stacked go to edit > to auto-blend layers, check off the content fill box. This does an incredible job of merging, aligning, blending your images. In many instances I don't have a tripod handy and you can do your shots hand held and still get great results.
Welcome to Pennsylvania
I merged five images in Photoshop CC to make this pano. A view of the water shed from the Tioga Pennsylvania Welcome Center
on route 15 south.
Old House
While traveling through Lancaster county I found this abandoned farm house, mill and covered bridge and decided it would make an excellent pictures. I turned my camera vertical and made five images to use in a panoramic of this scene. I merged the five images in Photoshop CC. Correction, this is Baumgardner mill and barn, the old house is on the left outside the picture.
Automobile
My favorite car a 1996 Chrysler LHS with low milage. I chose to use a R-72 red filter to lighten the foliage on the trees to highlight the black car and give me some separation from the background.
I made an interesting discovery today. I took the three images below and stacked them and merged them in Photoshop CC and got the image above. I didn't realize I could do this with images of different focal lengths. This could open up a lot of new possibilities for my images. I will need to explore this further.
Hummer Season
I took some time to try my hand at shooting a few hummingbirds. I found that I need a long lens of 200mm or better to compress the background.
Always bring your Camera
I have my bicycle modified with a tripod head mounted on the handle bars and a small detachable camera case so I can do photography while out riding. On this particular ride across Grand Island I was passing through Buckhorn State Park when the skies turned ominous. I stopped and made this four shot pano.
On the Turf
Shooting from the stands gives the viewer an over all picture of the action. This particular shot shows the beautiful grounds of the Fort Erie Race Track.
Timing is Everything
Shooting horses running at 30 mph isn't easy. It takes a good camera and good panning technique. If you do it right you get a great image.
First Day
Opening day for the 2016 racing season at Fort Erie Race Track. We had a great day at the track, with my boys and my grandson. I got some great images of the races and track people, they are hilarious.
Clinton's Big Ditch
Rode my bike from Niagara Falls to Tonawanda today. I shot four images and made this panorama of the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal divides the twin cities before it empties in to the Niagara river. I liked the reflections in this image.
Erie Canal
I found this old building along the Erie canal. I liked the reflections in the water. It almost looks painted. The early morning sun gave this scene a beautiful warming effect. It reminds me of possibly what the canal looked like in the 1800's. I had to crop the image to a 1:1 ratio because the surrounding scene had too many modern structures and wouldn't give this image the same look.
Holley Waterfall
The key to a successful waterfall image is getting the water blur just right. On this shot the water was half blown out highlights from the sun and half in shadow. I used f-11 in aperture priority on seven bracketed exposures. I then added 4x neutral density filter and exposure compensated the the camera with a -2. This allowed me to composite the images in HDR and save all the highlight and shadow details. The blur in the water will automatically happen with this technique.
Spring Waterfall Workshop 2016
Today was a big success for our annual springtime waterfall workshop. Six waterfalls and decent weather. All the waterfalls had good flow except Lockport was a little weak. Here is a shot of Akron falls. I will be posting many images from this set. I took 589 pics and did some experimental things that I will explain as I show them.
Saw this on Dpreview today and thought I'd give it a try. It's called the Orton layers effect and you can read about the process here. Dpreview.com An interesting process, not sure how much I'll ever use it, but it's another tool in my arsenal of post processing works.
The King of Beasts
Another shot of Tiberius the lion from yesterdays trip to the zoo. He seems to be quite the poser. I love the way I can bring out all the details in his face with Aurora HDR Pro.
Martin's Mill
Martin's Mill Covered Bridge in Greencastle, PA. Built in 1849, Martin's Mill Covered Bridge is Pennsylvania's second longest covered bridge.
McGees Mills in May
I walked down the banks of the Susquehanna river to get this shot of the McGees Mills covered bridge. I used a R-79 red filter to get the infrared effect.
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