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Category Archives: Fine Art Photo
It’s Not the Destination, It’s the Journey…
Well folks it’s been one whole year since I began this blog. When I started SpeedDemon2 I had a vague notion of where it would lead but just like riding my motorcycle the whole thing was not about the destination; … Continue reading
Ohio River Sunset
Click on the image to enlarge it in another window. This is a three exposure HDR using NIK HDR Efex Pro 2 for the merger and tonemapping as well as some exposure and structure adjustment. The three kayaks in the … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Art Photo, HDR, Kentucky, Landscape, Louisville, Waterfront Park
Tagged Aperture, art, bridges, Channel (digital image), clouds, composition, Kentucky, KY, Louisville, Louisville Waterfront Park, nature, NIK HDR Efex Pro 2, outdoors, photography, reflections, sunset, tone mapping
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Beautiful May Evening
Click on the image to enlarge it in another window. This image is from a photo shoot I did last Thursday evening after shooting at the Pegasus Parade earlier in the afternoon. I wasn’t ready to go home yet so … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Art Photo, HDR, Kentucky, Landscape, Louisville, Sunset, Waterfront Park
Tagged Aperture, Aperture 3, art, Big Four Bridge, bridges, clouds, composition, dramatic sky, Kennedy Bridge, Kentucky Derby Festival, nature, NIK HDR Efex Pro 2, Nikon D90, Ohio River, outdoors, Photo shoot, photography, reflections, sunset, tone mapping, Waterfront Park
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End of Tractor Week
Click on the image to enlarge it in another window. Today’s post is the last one I want to share from my Kansas tractor series. Sometimes a detail is all that is needed to tell a story; I think that … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Art Photo, Software, Topaz Plug-in, Travel, Vintage Tin
Tagged photography, reflections, texture, Topaz Adjust, rust, composition, travel, transportation, outdoors, art, abandoned, Great Depression, United States, Vehicles, Kansas, tractor, Cawker, Allis-Chalmers, farm trucks, grill shell
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Cawker, Kansas Tractor
Click on the image to enlarge it in another window. Here’s another image from Cawker, Kansas. I chose this one because I like the composition with the wheel coming forward in the frame as if it is on the verge of … Continue reading
Posted in Travel, Fine Art Photo, Software
Tagged Cawker, Cawker City Kansas, composition, Kansas, Nikkor, Old Tractor, patina, polarizer, rust, software, Spicify, texture, Topaz Adjust, United States
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More Playing with Topaz Adjust
Click on the image to enlarge it in another window. Here’s another image from Cawker, Kansas. I had a polarizer on my Nikkor 12-24 mm lens which really cut down on the glare and saturated the colors before any processing was … Continue reading
Posted in Car, Fine Art Photo, Texture, Topaz Plug-in, Vintage Tin
Tagged 1938 Ford Truck, 1939 Ford Truck, Aperture 3, art, cars, cawker kansas, Farm truck, Image processing, Kansas, kansas farm, Nikon D90, old ford, outdoors, patina, photography, polarizer, reflections, rust, texture, Topaz Adjust, transportation, travel, windshield glass
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Playing with Topaz Adjust
Click on the image to open it enlarged in another window. Today I thought I’d play around with some images of old tractors I came across in Kansas a couple of years ago. I was riding through there on my … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Art Photo, Topaz Plug-in
Tagged Aperture 3, art, color adjustments, farm equipment, high noon, junkyard, Kansas, Nikon D90, old tractors, outdoors, photography, rust, tex, texture, Topaz Adjust, tractor, tractors, transportation, travel
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The Eagle and the Indian
Click on the image to open it enlarged in another window. I thought I would begin this week on a different note from the last few posts. As I’ve said many times motorcycles are a passion of mine and have … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Art Photo
Tagged Aperture 3, art, composition, Indian, motorcycle, Nikon D90, photography, Vehicles
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Silent Sunday
Click on the image to open it enlarged in another window. ================================================================ Memo From the Department of Shameless Self Promotion I am still accepting participants for my next HDR Workshop on May 17-18, 2013 here in Louisville. The last session … Continue reading
Miles Lake Morning / Using Reflections to Add Interest
Click on the image to open it enlarged in another window. When I went out to the Parklands the other morning I was hoping to get a dramatic sunrise but the eastern sky was empty. I decided to hike along … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Art Photo, HDR, Kentucky, Landscape, Louisville
Tagged Aperture, Aperture 3, art, clouds, composition, Floyd's Fork., High dynamic range imaging, Kentucky, KY, Louisville, Miles Lake, Morning, nature, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Nikon D90, outdoors, photography, reflections, Sunrise, Techniques and Styles, tone mapping, Weather front
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