Decided to post these while on the subject of iPhone’s camera capabilities and while writing a new article on photo noise reduction. This first image is slightly modified in Lightroom 3 (+20 Fill Light and +10 Saturation, Noise Reduction: +50 Luminance, +80 Detail):
Too bad the kite surfer got mixed up with the black horizon – otherwise it would have been an OK picture.
I waited for the kite surfer to jump up, but he never did and it seemed like he spent more time in the water, trying to get back on. The sunset though, was beautiful!
Shot with Nikon D700 and Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G lens.
While going through some of the pictures I took in 2009, I found this one:
I remembered how I took it. I was driving back from a bird watching trip and saw this beautiful sunset. I knew that I didn’t have any time left, so as soon as I saw an open area, I jumped out of the car and ran towards the ocean. I looked for interesting objects around me, but couldn’t find anything. So I just snapped a few pictures and went back into the car. It’s not a good photo by any means, but there is something interesting here – the picture was taken in Florida, where the sun sets on the opposite side of the ocean. That’s why there is a thin layer of black in the middle :)
I was going through some of my images from last year and found this photograph of the Black Canyon that I really liked:
If you look closely, you will see a rainbow on the left side of the image. The whole scene was spectacular and I was able to get some really nice shots of the rainbow that day.
I have finally finished sorting through the photographs of the Great Sand Dunes National Park that Sergey and I visited a couple of weeks ago. Although it was very windy and rather cold, the weather was just perfect for photography with the beautiful cloud patches in the sky and rapidly changing light.
I have a very nicely stitched panoramic version of the below shot that I will upload for your viewing pleasure later. This was one of those “accidental” point and shoot shots that I didn’t even think would make it to the website. I got out of the car, shot one horizontal and 9-10 vertical shots for panorama and left the location. Once I got home and stitched the panorama, I wished that I had stayed a little longer :)
We then found a parking spot and decided to hike for a few miles up the sand dunes. While crossing a very shallow stream, I stood right in the middle and took a couple of shots of the mountains, the sand and the water:
This is part 2 of the “Colorado Fall Colors” photo tour with Sergey (click here to see the first part). We started the second day in Aspen, then went back south and took some back country roads all the way to Buena Vista and then finally home.
My buddy Sergey and I did a photography tour last weekend. I took over 1500 images and this one was the last of the set, before we returned home:
Winter in Colorado sometimes produces very colorful sunsets with the entire gamut of colors. This one was so red that it looked like fire lit up the sky…
This is pretty much an unprocessed image, straight out of the camera. The only thing I did in Photoshop was change the color profile to “Camera Standard”.
