Taken in a dark corner of our living room by available light at ISO3200. The new version of Lightroom I installed this week has amazing low light and noise suppression capability which makes shots like this easy.
EdC.
February 11, 2012
Soft Snow
A light snow was falling this morning coating trees, shrubs and grass with an inch or so of accumulation. The grayscale treatment was produced in Silver Efex Pro using a soft preset with minor adjustments in brightness and sharpening. Home in Basking Ridge NJ.
EdC.
December 1, 2011
Today’s Photo
Hibiscus - Front and Side
Our plant was brought in, pruned for winter and probably will not bloom again until Spring. This image caught the reflection of the last bloom in the mirror behind it.
EdC.
September 28, 2011
Today’s Photo
Rain Flower
This is the fifth time in almost two years that I’ve posted an image of a flower on our Hibiscus Plant currently sitting outside our front door. There was a light rain falling today and I couldn’t resist the shot.
EdC.
December 27, 2010
Today’s Photo
White Christmas (almost)
The day after Christmas blizzard dumped about 15 inches on us here in Basking Ridge, with reports of up to 30 inches just to the east of us. Dodger is taking it all in from the front door, waiting patiently for me to come back in so he can relax in the sun.
And relax he does …
Dodger and Sun
EdC.
December 10, 2010
Today’s Photo
A New “Family” Member.
Christmas arrived early this year with the delivery of my new Panasonic GF1. This camera and lens combination is very transportable and has the level of control and low light performance that my TZ5 compact lacked. Just the thing for a “take everywhere” package.
Here’s a sample shot from my first “walk around the house” tests:
Curious Dodger
Dodger was looking me over while I set up the GF1.
EdC.
July 17, 2010
Today’s Photo
Home Sweet Home
Whenever the weather becomes too much to bear (hot or cold) I usually look for shooting opportunities around the house. With temperatures hovering around 100F this week I decided to continue to refine my indoor HDR skills using part of my living room as the subject. High Dynamic Range or HDR photography is a methodology to overcome the limited, five stop exposure range of today’s digital sensors. This technique involves the use of specialized software to combine the best exposed parts of multiple exposures to span a range closer to what the human eye actually perceives. In this case I used Photoshop CS5 software and six exposures covering about eight stops to produce the image above. The lighting was entirely natural from the sunlit backyard through the living room windows. The HDR image was post-processed in Lightroom to get reasonable balance between the outdoor scene and the much darker indoor part of the image. My ultimate objective is to move on to something more grand, maybe the interior of a cathedral. We’ll see what the weather brings.
EdC.
