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Tag Archives: rust
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 abandoned, Allis-Chalmers, art, Cawker, composition, farm trucks, Great Depression, grill shell, Kansas, outdoors, photography, reflections, rust, texture, Topaz Adjust, tractor, transportation, travel, United States, Vehicles
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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 Fine Art Photo, Software, Travel
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 Topaz Plug-in, Vintage Tin, Texture, Car, Fine Art Photo
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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Cold Steel Morning
Click on image to open it enlarged in another window. This was a three frame bracket set -2, 0, +2 EV merged and tone mapped in NIK HDR Efex Pro 2 starting with the Deep 1 Preset. I made some … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, HDR, Kentucky, Landscape, Louisville, Waterfront Park
Tagged Aperture 3, architecture, art, Big Four Bridge, bridges, cold steel, composition, frame bracket, HDR, HDR Efex Pro, Kentucky, KY, Louisville, Morning, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Nikon D90, Ohio River, outdoors, photography, rust, texture, tone mapping, transportation, vibrance
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Texture Tuesday
Click on the image to enlarge it in another window. These images are detail shots of the massive nuts that are at the junction of the bridge spans. The nuts are at least 12 inches in diameter and when I … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Fine Art Photo, HDR, Kentucky, Louisville, Macro, Texture, Waterfront Park
Tagged Aperture 3, architecture, art, arts, Big Four Bridge, bridges, Color Efex Pro 4, composition, connectors, enhance, HDR Efex Pro, Kentucky, KY, Louisville, luminance, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Nikon D90, nuts, photography, rust, span, spans, texture, tone mapping
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Monday Morning Mood
Click on the image to enlarge it in another window. I have been doing more experimenting with combining various software in my processing. For this image I used NIK HDR Efex Pro 2 to merge my three shot bracket set. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Fine Art Photo, HDR, Kentucky, Landscape, Louisville
Tagged Aperture 3, art, Big Four Bridge, bridges, clouds, composition, HDR Efex Pro, initial tone, Kentucky, KY, Louisville, Morning, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Nikon D90, Ohio River, outdoors, photography, refinement, rust, stormy morning, texture, tone mapping, transportation
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Combining Different Maker’s Software
Click on the image above to open it in another window. Last night I was playing around with some images I shot last week from the Big Four Bridge at sunset. I was intrigued by the patterns that the lights cast on the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Fine Art Photo, HDR, Kentucky, Landscape, Louisville, Sunset, Topaz Plug-in, Waterfront Park
Tagged Aperture 3, architecture, art, arts, Big Four Bridge, bridges, clouds, color palette, composition, HDR, HDR Efex Pro, hdr image, Kentucky, KY, LED lights, Louisville, moving clouds, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Nikon D90, Ohio River, OnOne Software, Outdoor Photo Gear, outdoors, photography, rust, sunset, texture, tone mapping, Topaz Adjust, transportation, travel
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Alabama Morning
Click on the image to enlarge it in another window. These images are from my trip down to Alabama a few weeks back. While exploring the countryside I came upon this old log building that has become a piece of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Fine Art Photo, HDR, Travel
Tagged Alabama, Aperture 3, architecture, art, clouds, cloudy morning, composition, frame bracket, handhold, HDR, HDR Efex Pro, log cabin, Morning, nature, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Nikon D90, old gas pumps, OnOne Perfect Photo 7, outdoors, Perfect Effects 4, photography, rust, signs, texture, tone mapping, travel, Wren Alabama
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Rusted Relics
Click on the image to open a larger version in another window. While I was down in Alabama I took a drive out past the place where my Grandparents lived. The old house is gone now and I drove a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Fine Art Photo, HDR, Texture
Tagged abandoned, Alabama, architecture, art, clouds, composition, decay, HDR, hdr image, layers, log cabin, nature, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Nikon D90, no trespassing, old gas pumps, OnOne Software, outdoors, Perfect Photo Suite 6, photography, rust, signs, texture, tone mapping, travel, Wren Alabama
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