Tried to catch some nice evening sun down by the water the other day. Got some nice colors in this HDR image of the grasses even if none of the orange light came through. Really happy with the LR/Enfuse HDR plug-in though. The price is reasonable (donationware) and it can batch-process multiple images stacks. Not a lot of options to tweak but seems to work just fine.
A lone loon moves through the early morning fog on Sebec Lake. I took this around 6am one morning, before the coffee was even brewing. I had spotted the bird through the window and quickly got out my zoom lens and went out to the dock to shoot. I love that the fog is still hovering low over the water and adds to the sense of morning serenity.
This is the things boats do most often… wait for someone to come use them. This is our modest little boat, waiting on Sebec Lake for us to take it out for a spin. Sometimes we fish from it, but mostly we just ride around and enjoy the time on the water.
Driving home from another day on the road when I realized I hadn’t taken any pictures. I stopped just after the bridge over the Concord River coming in Carlisle and took a few quick photos with the iPhone. This picture is kind of missing a subject but still makes for a pretty scene.
Our VP of sales was in town and joined us for a few prospect calls. We had lunch at a famous place in Boston, which was my opportunity to stop and take a few photographs with the iPhone.
Got up early to check the fishing with Max. The lake is so calm and peaceful at these hours.
While we were eating inner inside, this heron was fishing for his dinner outside. I spotted him out the window and managed to get outside with the camera before he wandered too far up the river. I had the 18-55mm lens on at the time and couldn’t pull in any closer than this but I think the scene overall still works pretty well.
The creek that runs along our property is home to many plants and animals. Here are a few of the smaller examples.
I was fortunate enough to catch both ends of a rainbow that appeared over Boston during a recent visit. I didn’t have my DSLR with me that night but I think I did a good job capturing things with the camera from my pocket. To make these images I first took several exposures of each scene by focusing on different brightness levels within the frame. Back at the computer I used an HDR (High Dynamic Range) plug-in to merge the best parts of the exposures into a single image. The results are good and look pretty natural, the way that our human eyes see things as opposed to a single camera exposure.
Standing on the edge of the Charles River in Cambridge I spotted a rainbow landing on the John Hancock tower in Boston. This is an HDR composite from three exposures taken with my iPhone. The differences between this and the “properly” exposed original are subtle, but I liked the additional contrast in the sky and the water that the HDR brought out.
While not as clearly defined as the other end of the rainbow, this end landed on top of one of the Massachusetts General Hospital buildings. That’s the Longfellow Bridge on the right crossing the Charles River of course. This too is an HDR composite made from pictures taken with the iPhone.
On a side note, our son was treated for a serious illness at MGH, and we spend a good number of days “living” in that shiny building. Our boy is healthy again and back to a normal childhood, so we did find our pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.
-Josh
Recently I attended a technology user group in Cambridge Massachusetts. As I looked out the window I noticed the evening sun was just hitting the buildings in Boston on the other side of the Charles River. I took out my best camera (the one I had with me, of course) and fired off a number of shots using different points in the scene to focus on. Later I used the trusty HDR software to combine three shots from the iPhone to create the image we have here. Considering that I took this with a camera phone through the windows of an office building, I’d say the results aren’t half bad.
