We went scouting today and did we strike pay dirt! The old town of Cisco Landing landed us a treasure trove of great images. Starting with moonset. This is a composite of two images, one with the buildings in focus, the other of just the moon in focus. Even Nikon can’t pull off that kind of DOF with the 200-400VR!
Next, I walked down the “street” to this old gas station and with the 14-24AFS, did a artsy fartsy self portrait.
Then, I got out of my own way to photograph the front of the gas station. What appears to be the shadow of my legs on the right is actually a paint stain. Using the 200f2VR, I could shoot through the rear window and have it totally out of focus. This image was finished using Nik ColorEfex 3.0, Monday Morning filter. Whenever I’m doing this type of shooting, I already have in my mind applied, like in this case, the Monday Morning filter which makes composition possible.
Laurie on her explorations found this cool green door which I shot with the 14-24AFS really wide. This was finished with ColorEfex 3.0 Tonal Contrast.
Then, finding this cool door with a hand made screen, I got Laurie to pose to finish off a great morning of shooting!
Since I’m spending the rest of the day in my room putting the finishing touches on my Photoshop World presentations (I’m doing a record number for me this time), I posted extra images. Hopefully you can get a sense of how my mind was working this morning by the progression of images. It was a good, solid morning of making images!
Photos captured by: heck, everything in my camera bag!