Friday, February 25, 2011

Behold the power of Black and White!

I am in love with Black and White photographs!  Here are some examples (in my opinion some great photographs on their own) that are  amazing in black and white.  The two in Vegas - the Bellagio and Ceasers Palace have been HDR processed into Black and White that's what gives them the painted ethereal look.  I put them side by side for reference, comment if you like the color or black and white one better:

Friday, February 18, 2011

Stones at the end

I was looking for something to shoot today at lunch.  I didn't know what I wanted to shoot but I knew I wanted to shoot something with texture, weather and bokah (blurry backgrounds).  So I grabbed my camera put on my 50 f1.8 and headed out in search of something interesting to shoot.  I ended up in a little cemetery in Draper (the head stone of the baby broke my heart:






Friday, February 11, 2011

Telling a story with a sequence.

When taking pictures sometimes I find myself hitting the shutter really fast and getting a set of images that naturally group together.
 
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