July Photo Upload!

Hello everyone,

Its that fun time again where I upload a couple of the best photos I’ve taken lately (and sometimes we crack open the vault and post something from the past.).  I’ve been shooting more lately and its funny how much one can fine tune both their field and post-processing work flow by putting your nose to the grindstone.  Before we get into the monthly upload, I should mention a few photographers that I have been either studying or reviewing their instructional work.  Let’s it pay it forward shall we?

1) Aaron Pryor – Aaron is from Australia and I stumbled upon his work on Flickr.  Check him out here and here.

2) Ian Plant – Ian has a great interview with Tamron on YouTube here.  Also, check out his main site here.  I’ve purchased some of his e-books and they’re a great resource for landscape photography.

Now, on with the show…

1&2) 10th Concession Sunsets

I tried out a new location between 8th Concession and 10th Concession along Boiler Beach.  Lately the sunsets have been average for clouds (except last night which I missed…) which usually means there better be decent light in the water or the picture just won’t sing.  This was shot with a Canon 50D, Manfrotto Tripod, Canon 10-22mm lens.  I bracketed this shot at -2 for exposure in case I wanted to do HDR but it looks fine as is.

ISO 100, f11, 1/15s

Goderich and Kincardine Beach Photos, April 2012

Good afternoon all,

Just a quick post today and a few highlights from the last week of shooting.  I’ve been reading some good e-books lately from some of my favourite shooters and I’ll share the details in the next post as well as my latest order from B&H Photo.  Happy Easter!

1) Kincardine Beach – Stream Mouth

As usual, I took my camera gear down to a cool area on the beach that had quite a rocky patch (stone cobbles) that I thought would make for good foreground…none turned out the way I liked (didn’t like the composition, relatively boring sky etc) but I had this composition in mind when I first scouted the area.  The long leading lines work well with the vertical composition.  This is shot in HDR with HDR Efex Pro.  Shot with Canon 10-22 lens, ISO 100, f11, Manfrotto Tripod

2) Goderich Harbour – Tree Reflections

Most times I would give a beginner the advice that sunrise/sunset will give the best light for a photo.  Some days you get a bit lucky with really overcast/hazy skies.  This photo was taken in the middle of the day but the sky was so hazy that it worked well.  Single exposure, B&W processing in Silver Efex Pro 2. Shot with Canon 70-200 f4 IS L lens, f4, 1/2000s, ISO 100.