Stormy Skies
Nikon D40 - 8/16/2011 - f-5.6 - 1/125 sec - ISO 560 - 82mm eqv.
A rather impressive bank of clouds lit by a setting sun. This was a fairly powerful storm, but a very small and fast moving one.
Radioactive?
Nikon D40 - 2/14/2012 - f-5 - 1/400 sec - ISO 800 - 51mm eqv.
This image was taken on a beach during sunset, giving the rocks the beautiful glowing colors. The sun had heated the rocks slightly, melting the ice away from them and giving the silvery effect of the ice.
Freezing Time
Nikon D40 - 12/16/2011 - f-20 - 10 sec - ISO 200 - 27mm eqv.
This is a long exposure of one waterfall in Amnicon Falls State Park WI. This was in the evening, which allowed a higher shutter speed. The waterfall was still in the process on freezing, thus the cakes of ice under the falls (mostly blurred, with a few clear ones along the left side).
Reflecting on Fall
Cannon PowerShot A540 - 9/16/2012 - f-3.2 - 1/800 sec - ISO Unknown - Unknown focal length - 9 exposures.
This is a panorama stitched out of 9 photos using Hugin. The colors were white balanced afterward in GIMP. I really like the crisp reflections, and the clouds in the western sky(to the left of the picture).
A Steaming Punk
Nikon L100 - 4/2/2011 - f-3.7 - 1/94 sec - ISO 80 - 36mm eqv.
This was a really fun photo to take and edit. The shell on the persons head is the housing of an old Johnson outboard motor.
The editing was a little different, and I have thus generated two different versions. I first processed the colors to be more realistic, have better contrast, and fill the entire dynamic range. I then sharpened the picture. After that I was working on multiple layers, with filters built into GIMP. Both versions use the same layers, just in a different mix of modes and opacities.
Please view these at full size and let me know what you think, and which you think is better.
Winter Night
Nikon D40 - 1/27/2012 - f-10 - 30 sec - ISO 200 - 45mm eqv.
This photo was taken after dark of a river flowing into Lake Superior. The unified colors are what came out of the camera, and part of what drew me to the picture. The only editing was using the value curve to broaden the contrast.
Orange Matrix
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.
Liquid Sky
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 Little Color
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.
Daytime?
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.