Todays photo comes from a place in Western Pennsylvania called McConnells Mill. You can find this mill at the bottom of small road in McConnells Mill State Park. There you will also find a beautiful red covered bridge. It’s been a few years since I was last there and it’s on the list for places to visit again this year. Would you visit this place if you could?
Todays photos are from Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va. If you ever have the opportunity to visit I highly recommend taking the time to see this hallowed ground. These photos are from inside the Memorial Amphitheater using a fisheye lens.
Hope you enjoy!
Tonights post is a reflection shot that I took while ago in Pittsburgh. One of the things that I like to look for is what you would normally walk right by and never notice. This particular photo is a reflection in an area where literally thousands of people walk by. I wonder how many have stopped to take a look?
In your personal travels I highly recommend stopping and taking a look at what the world has to offer. You might just be amazed.
For tonights post I am showing you a photograph that I took last summer in the middle of the day in bright sunlight. By stacking Neutral Density filters on top of one another I was able to get the exposure down to 35sec at f22 with 100 ISO. This is a digital photo and I found with longer exposures and more filters I was getting a strange red cast to the photographs.
Let me know your thoughts and if you have ever experimented with this type of filter stacking before.
One of the nice attractions at Phipps Conservatory is the miniature railroad display that they out up every year. And every year I am just as excited as the last to photograph it. Somehow it has a way of making you feel like a kid again.
So yesterday the photography club I belong to took a trip to Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pa. This is always a nice trip for those that go and we had a great time. And on a side note we always go as a group out for a late lunch and yesterday we went to the Spaghetti Wearhouse, another one of my favorite places to go.
Hope you enjoy the flower portraits:
Today the photography club that I belong to visited Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pa. I am working on the photographs and will be posting several tomorrow but here is a small teaser. Tune in tomorrow for flowers and miniature railroad photos.
For tonights post I thought I would propose a question. It’s a simple question, but I think it really could spark a great conversation.
“Black & White or Color?”
Simple enough question but what’s the right answer? Personally I lean towards black and white when looking at photographs, and as I stated in a previous post I have always been intrigued by black and white photography. As a photographer you need to think about this question constantly. So how do you make the decision? I will often post process the image both ways, place them on the screen side-by-side and see which one gives me the emotion that I saw when I took the photo. I also find that I will eventually use both versions depending on the situation.
I’m very interested in your thoughts on this subject. What is your process when making this decision? How do you make your photos black and white? Do you use digital and convert or are you still a die hard and shoot B&W film? And finally which version of this tree do you like best?
With the slightly warmer temperatures today I started thinking about a place that I haven’t visited in several years. Located in the Monongahela National Forest is the ever beautiful Dolly Sods Wilderness. Covering over 17,000 acres and with elevations reaching over 4,700 feet. This is one of my favorite places to visit in the summer and a great lace to photograph some amazing sceneries. If you have never visited the area I highly recommend taking a trip. Nearby attractions such as Seneca Rocks and and Smoke Hole Caverns make the trip even more rewarding.
Hope you enjoy and I’ll let you know when I’m planning to journey to this amazing place again.
So tonight on my way out of work I walked by the ice skating rink at PPG place in downtown Pittsburgh. I watched for just a minute and then decided to go grab my camera and tripod and take a few quick shots of the skaters. But as usual, my plans were derailed when I got back, as the skaters were all off the ice and they were resurfacing it with the Zamboni. You may recall, I mentioned having a list of subject to photograph this year an as luck would have it a Zamboni is number 127 on my list. So here is my shot of a Zamboni speeding around the ice.
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