MUTH PHOTOGRAPHY

Downy

A nice female Downy today. A good catch considering it rained most of the day.

Red Rocks

A re work of the past. Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. Finished with Aurora 2017.

This sparrow was foraging for food on a concrete sidewalk. The dark shadow gives the sparrow nice separation. Otherwise the subject would completely blend into the background and not produce the 3D effect we desire in our images. Always be aware of your backgrounds and use them to your advantage.

First Day of Spring

Spring is here. Spring flowers will soon be blooming. This black and white image is from last years batch of trilliums on Goat Island. I hope to catch this years new blooms soon. Trilliums are Ontario's official provincial flower and a protected flower so use caution while photographing them and never pick any.

King of Queens

Three image pano of the east river and Queens.

New York

Two image pano stitched together in Photoshop CC and finished up in Aurora 2017. Upper east side, New York city.

Bridge in Fog

Along the bike path the fog was low under the Grand Island bridge. The water was fairly calm and the reflections were very good for the Niagara river. I originally wanted this to be a 5 image panorama stitched together but I didn't notice my bike mounted tripod had shifted to much so I had to make due with a single image cropped 16:9.

Red Belly

Red bellied woodpecker intensely inspecting this tree for something tasty.

Red Bellied Woodpecker Feeding

Nuts Hatch

The world looks much better upside down.

Woodland Bird Series by Gary Muth

Red Bellied Woodpecker

Nice profile of this red bellied woodpecker on a tree. What a magnificent bird. This one appears to be a female.

Wood Wood Woodpecker

Breakfast Time

Early morning breakfast with a Nuthatch on our feeder. Shot with Canon Powershot sx50 hs. Iso 400, f-8 at 1/1600 sec.

Woody

Downy Woodpecker

Downy

Young Female

Young female downy woodpecker feeding.

Out of the Woods

Female downy woodpecker.

Big Red

Red bellied woodpecker ( female ).

Red Head

Female red bellied woodpecker.

Big Pecker

Male downy woodpecker.

Ahhh Nuts

Nuthatch eyeing me up.

Woodpecker Outdoors

Snow today. The wild birds are busy looking for any nourishment they can find before the snow gets to heavy.

Anti Gravity Nuthatch

Evening Meal.

A female downy woodpecker inspecting a tree for an evening meal. Canon Powershot sx50 hs. Iso 400, 1/320 sec. at f-6.5

Just Walk In

Virginia Vista

View from Skyline Drive, Virginia.

Light it Up

Valley of Fire.

People Portraits

Shooting outdoors in any weather is easy. I used a nice snow covered surround of pine trees to frame this couple on their outdoor engagement session. A 36 inch white reflector adds fill light to the front of their faces. Nikon D3.

Jamestown Cemetery

Spirits of the first settlers of the Jamestown colony rise from the depths during a full moon in Virginia.

Battlefield Panorama

Gettysburg battlefield panorama processed in Aurora 2017. I found quite a difference moving up from Aurora HDR Pro to the newer version Aurora 2017. I do prefer to experiment with my own settings instead of the preloaded presets that come with both programs.

A Pinch

Copenhagen snuff container light painting.

New York City Panorama

Four images stitched together with photo merge in Photoshop CC. Finished with Aurora 2017.

Amsterdam Avenue

Building architecture on Amsterdam Avenue.

Amtrak Abstract

Sun Rise

Early morning sun rise in New York.

Splish Splash

A few refinements like thickening the liquid helped a lot. Happy with this result and will continue to modify.

Water Splash

First attempt today with water splash art. I used a zip lock bag with a knife stab to drop water into a glass. The background was a manila envelope. My plan is to make some water drop collision images without spending hundreds of dollars for high tech gadgets. I will continue to develop a strategy to accomplish this task on a budget. This shot is nice but it isn't a collision. I see I will need a better drop making method, maybe something with a valve and a stabilized way to hold it also.

What a Cutie

Light painting with small pen streamlight.

Raisin Hell

Not a rock, not an asteroid, and not a turd. It's a raisin. Who would of thought a raisin would have so much detail and texture. Canon Powershot sx50 hs zoomed to 200mm with raynor 250 magnification filter On a focusing rail. ISO 80, 1/1000 sec. at f-7.1. Twenty eight exposures, focus stacked in Zerene Stacker, finished in Aurora HDR Pro and Photoshop CC.

Dried up Liatris

For lack of a better subject today I made this image of a dried out liatris seed pod from my garden. I readjusted my macro set up to get a softer illumination of the subject. I intend to shoot more insects this summer and I want to be prepared. I took 33 images and merged them in Zerene Stacker to get maximum depth of field and sharpness of the fuzzy seed pod. I then finished up the image in Aurora 2017 and Photoshop CC. I will be showing behind the scenes photos of my set up in future installments.

The Big Picture

I used a 1/2.3 sensor point n shoot camera with 12 megapixels to make this 30 image picture of my backyard. The thirty images merged in Photoshop CC yielded a super high resolution image worthy of any full frame DSLR camera. Something to think about before you buy your next $6500 camera.

100% crop from the image above.