Touring the barn by lamplight. They sure don't give off much light and the night was cold and dark.
back in the saddle again
Did you know that there were cowboys in Ohio? I certainly didn't. Goes to show you what we know. There are cowgirls as well, just in case you were wondering.
mt. tabor
View from Mt. Tabor on a chilly and wet morning. Part of an assignment to create a composed image of a minimalist landscape. I suppose this is pretty minimal, don't you? What about the composed part? Well, I removed all of the actual farm buildings, homes, and light poles in Photoshop.
supervised play
I haven't posted any numbers in a long time. I've gotten some nice comments about the light in this image. The light is natural and comes fromt he windows to the right. Notice that I had to bump up the ISO and crank down on the shutter speed to get these tones. 1/30 is at the limit of my ability to shoot hand held. Any slower and I would have to use a tripod.
| Exposure | 0.033 sec (1/30) |
|---|---|
| Aperture | f/4.5 |
| Focal Length | 28 mm |
| ISO Speed | 1600 |
the road forward
a tough one
When you place a white horse in the sun and a black horse in the shade, you are asking for trouble. The camera's dynamic range can't handle the whites and blacks at the same time. Something has got to give and in my case, it was the whites. Poor Jane has her white coat blown out in the strong sun light.
In the second image, I correctly exposed for Jane's white coat while letting not worrying about how Belle's blacks would look. I could get away with it because … well, you can't see Belle in the picture. Just her ears. Poor Belle, she got all dressed up for nothing.
sailing upstream
The rock in the center of the river is called Steamboat Rock. I think it looks more like a giant Spanish galleon. This is one of my favorite parts about hiking in the gorge in Clifton, OH. Our area of Ohio is generally pretty flat. However, when you hike down into the gorge, you feel like you are following a river in a valley between two mountain ridges.
more sycamore
I've mentioned them before. The simple truth is that I love sycamore trees. When the leaves fall and their white trunks are exposed to the dark overcast days they are at their best.
I spent some time in the woods this past weekend so that I could find some good specimens for you. What is your favorite tree?
blue hole update
A week or so back, I brought you a photo of the blue hole and mentioned the painting was hanging in the Cincinati Art Museum. The following weekend, a friend of mine and I visited the museum and low and behold, there was The Blue Hole.
hiding in plain sight
I was shooting early morning on Huffman pond. The reflections of the golden leaves were simply gorgeous & I shot several frames.
And then I suddenly realized that hidden in plain sight at the edge of the spectacular color was a trio of deer. It was at this moment that I really regretted the fact that I don't have a long lens.
tim mcmurdo 