Nikon D40 - 4/2/2011 - f-7.1 - 1/4000 sec - ISO 200 - 82mm eqv.
This is one of the photos that I took the most time to set up. It is a photo of empty honeycomb backlit by the sun. It took significant time to get the focus and DOF close to what I wanted.
Backlit Honeycomb.
Canon PowerShot A540 - 5/18/2010 - f/5.0 - 1/160 sec - ISO ? - 18.4mm eqv.
This image was taken on a point and shoot Canon camera. It turned out surprisingly well for the camera, and the rich colors caught my attention. This is from the earlier days of my artistic photography, before I owned a camera of my own.
A sunset reflected in water.
Nikon D40 - 12/29/2011 - f-4.2 - 1/200 sec - ISO 1600 - 39mm eqv.
This image was taken at Amnicon Falls State Park, of one of the sand stone cliffs next to the river. The photo was not very good as a color photo, so I desaturated it using F-Spot (I didn't want to spend the time it would take to start GIMP) which didn't look any better. I then edited it so that it still had a small amount of color which turned out much better.
Sandstone layers in Amnicon State Park.
Nikon D40 - 4/4/2012 - f-3.5 - 30 sec - ISO 1100 - 27mm eqv.
This photo has prompted a number of people to ask how I managed to get stars in the day time. The trees and grass in the foreground are lit by a full moon, which also gave the sky the blue daytime look.
A night time sky with light from a full moon.
Nikon D40 - 10/2/2011 - f-22 - 1 sec - ISO 200 - 33mm eqv.
An unusual overhead slow shutter photo of the Amnicon River. This is one of my favorite slow shutter photos because of the perspective.
A top down, slow shutter photo of flowing water.
Software: GIMP - CC-BY-SA License
This particular piece of artwork was not totally complete in my view. I wanted to find a more readable font for the main text. It was my second complete artwork for mintCast. The background took me a number of tries to get the proper texture and 3D look to it. I started with a flame fractal rendered by the flame plugin included in GIMP. This was then colorized and mapped to a gradient which were combined to give a subtle shift to the highlights. Next I made a drop shadow for the visible parts of the flame, which was accomplished with the help of depth mapping based on brightness. Finally I added texture via a number of different plugins. All of the text was very simple.
Feel the Linux Momentum
Nikon D40 - 9/29/2012 - f-5.6 - 1/500 sec - ISO 400 - 82mm eqv.
This image is one that I took of the fall colors, but became bored with the standard pumped colors you see in most photos. I decided to edit it with GIMP to have a old/grunge look. Once I had the BW conversion, I decided that it should have some color, so I reprocessed the raw to give strong colors and dropped it on top of the BW. The new layer is in overlay mode with low opacity, with a duplicate to add a little more to the dirty look.
Edited photo of fall leaves.
"Plugged into mintCast" My first artwork for the mintCast podcast.
Nikon D40 - 9/23/2012 - f-6.3 - 1/320 sec - ISO 800 - 82mm eqv.
This image is an apple branch against the evening sky. The crooked shape against the sky was a striking picture.
A crooked branch against the sky.
Nikon D40 - 9/23/2012 - f-8.0 - 1/400 sec - ISO 800 - 69mm eqv.
This was a really spectacular sky following a sunset. The skyline is from Duluth MN, taken from the rose garden parking lot.
A late evening sky over a city, with an unusual square shape to the high level clouds.