Remainders of a sand castle in Naples, FL on New Year’s eve.
Exif Info:
- Date Taken: 2010-12-31 18:24:58
- Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- Exposure Time: 25s
- Aperture: f/8
- ISO: 100
- Focal Length: 16mm
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at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT. Exif Info:
While the weather prevented super moon photography on Saturday here in Central Switzerland, it cleared up on Sunday and even though it was just 98.54% full, the light was still spectacular. Just to make it clear, I have not shot a single exposure with the moon in the frame, I only used the moon as a reflector of the sunlight for my photographs. All but the last picture shown here were shot in Brunnen at Lake Lucerne. The last picture shows Lake Lauerz with Rigi in the background. I created a gallery on my Portfolio site with more supermoonlight photographs.
I had not much time to shoot so I just pulled over on my drive home and grabbed that shot of this lonely bench.
It finally stopped raining and the weather forecast looks quite promising for the next few days. I noticed this heron sitting on a boat while driving home and had to snap it:
Still no weather improvement. I went to Brunnen today and shot some rainy pictures of Lake Lucerne:
It’s still raining here in Switzerland with no end in sight. This spring (or is it supposed to be Summer) really s…cks big time. I shot this picture in the early morning while it was raining hard.
Due to the heavy rain, there was almost no contrast in the scene so I really had to pull the Lightroom sliders to their limits. See below for the Before (RAW file) and After This is the same lake as seen in #13/365 but at totally different lighting conditions and in the early morning. In order to get enough light on the foreground without blowing out the quite bright overcast sky, I shot 3 bracketed exposures at f/22, ISO50 which gave me fairly long shutter-speeds to smoothen the water. I’ve used the HDR Pro feature in Photoshop CS5 this time to tone-map the HDR. The main reason I chose PS over Photomatix was the much better ghosting removal feature which I need for the leafs.
Light was horrible but I knew I wouldn’t have time to shoot later in the day so I worked with what I got -> horrible light. Due to the fact that the sun was still quite high I decided to include some sun-flares that should hit the rock near the water.
I’m driving by that creek every day on my way to work and it usually has just a few drops of water but due to some heavy thunderstorms that passed by the previous eve, it was pretty full this morning. I’ve shot it with about 4 different lenses but the 70-200 f/2.8 at 80mm ended up as my favorite for this subject. I shot it without a ND filter as it was still raining and rather dark. In order to get the water silky, I stopped the lens down to f/13 at ISO 50 which gave me a 1 second exposure.
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