How Time Heals

“Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”
― Jonathan Nolan, Memento mori

This is an older image that I decided to revisit and process. It’s the ruins of an abandoned farmhouse in Stockton, Utah. I hope you like it.

“How Time Heals”, Nikon D300, ISO 200, HDR with bracketed aperture at 10 seconds per frame, 35mm
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In the Shadows of Speed

So you might be wondering about the curious title of this post, and why the images included don’t convey motion or speed. Here’s the short answer: the photos are of the International Speedway Corporation™ headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was late getting to the beach the day I drove over to photograph the sunrise because a building had caught my eye en route. This is that building. These are the shots I captured when the sun was just peeking over the horizon through the heavy cloud cover that day.

The two images were caught about 5 minutes apart at a slightly different angle. I bracketed the shots, varying each by one to two stops, and decided in the end to create two HDR composite images from the various exposures. I like the mood and tones doing so added to the result. You can see that I did not choose to exploit the opportunity to make these images excessively surrealistic, as is so often done with HDR. It is a bit more telling in the second image, due to the increased contrast between light and dark among the sky and clouds.

Nikon D300, ISO 200, f/27 at varied times from 4 – 10 seconds, 29 mm

Nikon D300, ISO 200, f/27 at varied times from 4 – 10 seconds, 29 mm

I hope you like the images.

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HDR in Ruins: Help Wanted

Please, I need your help!

Over the Easter holiday weekend, I got the opportunity to sit down and work with some photographs I captured in Stockton, Utah in July of last year. I had just gotten my Mamiya 645 Super medium-format film camera, and wanted to take it out and shoot a couple of rolls of film. An earlier post featured one of the B&W photos from the Mamiya film shoot, but I had never even looked at the digital images I got at the same time.

I recall that my intuition had me thinking that the early morning light and the landscape that lay in front of me was the perfect combination for some interesting HDR images. I therefore bracketed all of my shots for each scene by a half stop. I haven’t done a lot of HDR work to-date, but it is a technique I’ve become more and more intrigued with for its ability to show so much detail and texture. And if you’ve come to this site with any regularity, you know how I’m drawn to textures.

So here they are. I’m pretty happy with the results and think I might like to have a metal print made of the best image from this series. The problem is, I can’t decide which one is the “best image”. That’s where your help comes in; which one would you choose to print? Please leave your opinion/comments below. Thanks.

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Nikon D300, ISO 200, bracketed aperture for HDR conversion at 1/125th sec.

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Nikon D300, ISO 200, bracketed aperture for HDR conversion at 1/125th sec.

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Nikon D300, ISO 200, bracketed aperture for HDR conversion at 1/125th sec.

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Nikon D300, ISO 200, bracketed aperture for HDR conversion at 1/125th sec.

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High (Altitude) Dynamic Range: Mirror Lake

There are two kinds of light–the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
– James Thurber

Beautifully nestled among the fir trees growing at an altitude of 10,000 feet in Utah’s Uinta mountains rests Mirror Lake (Latitude: 40.70083 Longitude: -110.88361). It is without a doubt one of my favorite spots to watch the sun begin its journey above the horizon. You can see that the nearly perfect reflections of the lake’s surroundings on the surface of its crystal clear water provide the explanation for its self-explanatory name. Frequently, the only sound one hears is the cursing of a frustrated fisherman or a deer running through the woods. In its own way, it’s magical, and I love being touched by the magic.

For this post, I’m trying something a little different to bring out the magnitude of the beauty of Mirror Lake: HDR image processing. I hope you like the result.

Nikon D300, ISO 200, 6 seconds at f/5.6, f/8 and f/11, 18 mm

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An Unacceptable Truth

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Nikon D300, ISO 640, 1/1000 sec @ f/6.3, 36 mm, HDR

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High Dynamic Barn

“I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.”
– Johnny Carson

Nikon D300, ISO 200, 1/400 sec at f/8, 18 mm

Nikon D300, ISO 200, 1/100 sec at f/13, 18 mm

This is my first attempt at using HDR, an effect I really like the look of on the right photo. Essentially, it’s done by merging three shots bracketed 1 f-stop apart. Now that I am using Adobe Lightroom (4), I thought I would give it a try. Suggestions?

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Nikon D300, Nikon 60mm lens, ISO 200, f11 at 1/640 s

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