So I finally took a vacation! It’s bee little over a year since my last one, and boy did it feel good! Too short though… but aren’t they all!?
So I went to NYC to visit family, and Washington DC for fun. And I took a TON of pictures! I actually took 4001 pictures to be exact! (Thank you Lightroom 3!) Anyways, here are a few that I’ve finished already.
I also wanted to quickly point out I’m now on 500px! There is now a link at the top of the page, or you can click here. I’ve also added a link to my Google+ page if you want to follow me there as well!
Now for the images!
Center Of It All – DC
Tase of Freedom
Just Hanging Out
Behind Door Number Three
Just wanted to drop a quick list of Photographers I like to follow online. Love to check out what these guys are doing to get inspired!
Lynn Lane:
Gary Ngo:
Peter Kremzar:
I’ll be posting a few more soon. I defiantly have a few people over on DeviantArt that I love to follow!
Till then…
-Scott
So my friend just got her new Ford 2012 Mustang GT California Special (say that 5x fast…)… And because it’s brand spanking new, we had to take pictures! Now I’ve never really taken any pictures of cars before, so this was a real challenge to me. But I think the results came out pretty well. These are all HDR images, with about 3-5 EV taken for each image.
Oh and the blue Mustang is mine… she just turned 1 year old.
I’ll have another set soon. We just took some pictures with the cars together out on her parent’s land. There should be some sexy ones in there!
And now… the images!
First Birthday
California Special
Belongs In A Museum
Here Comes A New Challenger
What Are You Looking At?
-Scott
Sorry it’s been a while. Work again started getting in the way… But here I am!
Before/Middle/After – The Red Chair
A friend of mine the other day asked if I could show him what a Before, Middle, and After image looks like in my HDR workflow.
And for those that would like to know how I do this, in a nutshell is:
- Take 3 exposures –2 0 +2 EV
- Import, organize, clean up in Lightroom 3
- Export to Photomatix
- Tone Map in Photomatix and export out as a .tiff
- Import 3 exposures plus the tonemap .tiff into Photoshop
- Layer together, and put the tonemap on top.
- Using a layer mask, I paint back in any detail or light that I want in my image.
- Apply certain Photoshop filters for color, noise reduction, etc.
- Finish it all off with an Unsharp Mask, and save!
So here are the images:
Before:
Middle (tonemap):
After:
Pretty cool, eh?
I’ll try and show more of these as time goes on. Sadly, I normally delete the tonemap image after I’m done with it.
Google+
So a good friend of mine was able to get me into Google+. So if you’d like to follow me there, just type my name in. Or follow this link!
As you can guess, it’s been a busy week since I got back from Austin. But I have kept up with uploading photos! You might have notice if you’ve been following Flickr, Twitter, and/or DeviantArt. But now here are those photos for your enjoyment!
Till next time…
Photo of the Day – 6/7/2011
Just Lounging – HDR
Photo of the Day – 6/8/2011
Just Waiting…
Photo of the Day – 6/9/2011
Flying Above Tokyo
Photo of the Day – 6/10/2011
The Temple Awaits
-Scott
Another shot from my little getaway to Austin, Texas. This is a shot of my friend Lindsey Stump. As we were walking down 6th Street, we found this really cool painted red wall. The colors were so vibrant that we had to get some shots! She put on these really awesome sunglasses, and I let the shutter fly!
Photo of the Day 6/6/2011
The Girl With The Sunglasses
-Scott
So I decided to get away for the weekend, since I got the weekend off from work at the last minute. I stayed over at the wonderful “W Hotel”. And I must say, this hotel is amazing, and totally worth the price! I’ll be uploading photos from my little road trip over the next few weeks. But I’ll start with this one from one of the many lounges in the W Hotel.
I also meet up with my friend, and fellow photographer, Lindsey Stump! You can view some of her work here.
http://www.lindseystump.com/
Photo of the Day – 6/5/2011
The Record Room – HDR
-Scott
I love finding old photo’s on my HDD.
I wasn’t able to sleep, so I did the next best thing… browse the hard drive! That can be a very dangerous thing, but in this case, it was a blessing! I found my old photo’s I took back with my D40 at the Houston Miniature Train Convention. I’m not sure if that’s even the correct name for it. My father and I took my grandfather for his birthday. Oh what I would give to take photo’s of my grandfather’s village he had built in his basement. Sadly, it had to get taken down due to the basement flooding. But I did however snag a few good ones from this convention! So keep an eye out for those. I plan on doing a series with them!
Photo of the Day 6/1/2011:
Good Morning Mini-Town!
-Scott
Happy Memorial Day interweb!
It’s been a pretty nice long weekend, and I got a lot of work done! And not to mention, my sister graduated High School this weekend as well! So I hope you all had a great Memorial Day!
Oh and by the way… the Flickr site is back up and I’ve registered with “Pro” status for them! Not that really means anything, but at least I don’t have an upload limit. And now everything is updated, and re-uploaded, with metadata. I’ve also organized everything into sets, etc.
I also suggest everyone check out www.mostly365.com. This is a great site for uploading one photo a day via Twitter #Mostly365. If anything just bookmark it and check it everyday for some amazing stuff! I’ll be uploading my images of the day from now on. You’ll be able to follow those updates via twitter!
“We Are Done!”
Photo of the Day 5/30/2011
“Memorial Day”
Photo of the Day 5/29/2011
“Benjy’s on Washington”
-Scott
