In my travels to work or other destinations for errands, I often see things that would make a neat image. Too often, I keep on driving, intent on getting to my destination and thinking I'll get back to it later. I've missed a lot of good shots that way. Time doesn't always allow me the luxury of stopping. Nor is it always practical to pull over right then and there. On this occassion, I didn't have a lot of time and there wasn't a real good place to pull over in the near vicinity. However, I happened to have my large camera backpack with my 5D and a 70-200mm. Yep, I shot this one from the car! Making sure nobody was behind me on this country road, I pulled over as much as I could without going into the ditch, dug out my camera, slapped on the lens, got the shot and drove on my way. The fire hydrant stuck out to me in this empty field. This was all farm land, but the road has been improved and a line of hydrants was recently installed. I can only assume they will be building homes or commercial properties in the near future. For now, this hydrant looks a little lonely and out of place. Shots like this are rather difficult to me. What looks like a simple scene of red, green, and blue is actually quite a challenge for my color blind eyes. I had to carefully adjust my raw capture, nervously tweaking tonality and saturation knowing that I don't see things quite like most of the folks in this world. Processing info: - Raw conversion in Lightroom, including camera profile selection, lens correction, cropping, and minor tone and saturation tweaks. - In Photoshop, contrast adjustment and a bit of "pop" added by blending in a copied layer that I treated with Topaz Labs Adjust - Photo Pop. Please hit 'L' for large on black! Latest blog entry: X100 Sticking Aperture Disease Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus I welcome comments and I will be happy to reciprocate by checking out and commenting on your photostream. Group invites are welcome, but I do not participate in Post / Award groups. I reserve the right to delete gaudy, glittery, flashing group invite icons!
Been busy lately, so I've been sharing a few iPhone snaps the past few days. I noticed this decorative prop guitar at a bar in Hutto, TX. Taken with my iPhone and tweaked just a bit in Lightroom. Please hit 'L' for large on black! Latest blog entry: X100 Sticking Aperture Disease Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus I welcome comments and I will be happy to reciprocate by checking out and commenting on your photostream. Group invites are welcome, but I do not participate in Post / Award groups. I reserve the right to delete gaudy, glittery, flashing group invite icons!
An oddity seen in the bathroom at a bar in Hutto, TX. Wonder how long it has been there? Taken with my iPhone and tweaked a bit in Lightroom. Please hit 'L' for large on black! Latest blog entry: X100 Sticking Aperture Disease Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Google Plus I welcome comments and I will be happy to reciprocate by checking out and commenting on your photostream. Group invites are welcome, but I do not participate in Post / Award groups. I reserve the right to delete gaudy, glittery, flashing group invite icons!
