16 January
On
In Digital IR, Landscape
With

In case you don’t recognize the location, this first one was outside the Verizon store near Panera at Forest Lakes, and was taken with a IR modified digital camera.

The one below started out as color HDR, didn’t like it, played around a bit, and settled on the one below.  Happy with that one 🙂

Another digital IR, this is the typical look from digital IR, dark sky, white grass…

This one below is a combination, digital IR and HDR.  Needed the HDR to retain some detail in the wagon without the sky being too bright.

Two more digital IR below..

This last one is also digital IR, but has very little processing.  This is the way it looked coming out of the camera.  The digital IR images usually have a little a color straight out of the camera and I left it for this image.  I usually convert them to black and white, but liked this one better like it is.

11 January
On
In Landscape, Software
With

I went out to shoot a little bit yesterday afternoon before the Middle School basketball games, mostly to get a few images to play with in the new Lightroom 4 BETA, which was introduced yesterday.  They’ve made some pretty big changes, the Basic panel is quite different….and I think I’ll like it.  Basic processing seems a little more straightforward with the new controls.  I think one of the biggest changes is the ability to make localized white balance adjustments.  (When shooting available light indoors, there are often multiple light sources, all with different color temperatures, so different parts of the picture end up being slightly different color.  We’ll be able to fix this now without going into Photoshop.)  They’ve also added the ability to create photo books within Lightroom.  Templates are limited to Blurb right now, but I’m sure others will be available later.

The image below was processed in LR4 …. not that I couldn’t have done the same thing in Lightroom 3, but it did give me a chance to play with the new interface.

And below is a screenshot of the new Maps module of LR4 in use.  The photo was one that I took when I was at Eddin’s Ford in Madison when I was dropping off my truck for service.  It was taken with my iPhone, which has GPS.  And the location is pretty darn close to where I was standing when I took the photo.

28 December
On
In Landscape, William & Mary
With

A few photos from a short trip to Williamsburg yesterday.  It rained the whole time we walked around the campus, but rainy makes for good photos too.   Sometimes, I wonder why I take a “real” camera at all.  I tend to prefer the photos I get from my iPhone.  These were taken with the Instagram app (you can follow berrysports there if you like).