It's not too often I like a photo this much. I love this picture. I've been experimenting a lot lately with in-camera controls. Basically, I'm trying to get quality photos straight out of the camera, without photoshop. Now, I have NO PROBLEM with photoshop, trust me... I love that program and am not one of these photographers that say it's cheating or such. I believe it is a absolutely necessary tool to any photographer. However, the better I can get the photo in the camera, the better I get and the less time I have to sit in front of a computer.
Anyway, this shot was a mid-morning shot, as the sky turned bright blue. I changed the white-balance settings in my camera (the setting that determines the color of light, ie: warmer or cooler). I used a cooler setting, as well as a polarizer filter at a 6th of second exposure to get this image. I was standing on a rock ledge, shooting down on the moving creek. I did nothing in Photoshop to this image, other than clean off a couple of dust specs from my camera.
Funny side-story... My dog Gwinny was hanging out with me. She was standing on the rock ledge as well, just dying to get in the moving water. It was pretty quick water, so I didn't want her to go in. She was being a good girl, minding me. Well, the ledge was rather small and when I repositioned with my tripod I swung the legs around and knocked her into water and she went down stream for a good bit before being able to get out! I felt bad, but couldn't stop laughing. She's a strong swimmer.
Anyway, not much else is new. We had a great time at the cabin. It's nice to get up there for such a long time (Thursday night to Monday morning). Here's another photo I took. It's one of our best friends from college and her 14-month-old Abbey. So cute...
Have a great weekend.
3 comments:
I love love love this pic!
really awesome picture
Ben, you've really gotta watch your tripod hitting people in the head.
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