f/1.4, 1/1250 sec., 50 mm, ISO 400
post-processing: cropped, levels, contrast, liquify

Watkins Mill Tree

This is a tree that I've long admired. It's adjacent to our local community golf course. I was trying out my wide angle lens (20-35 mm) that I had from my Canon EOS film SLR, before I got my new DSLR. Jeff, my photographic consultant :), told me that this lens would be a little soft and he was right! I do hope to play with it some more, on wider apertures and closer shots, rather than landscapes, but for these tree shots, I just used the poster edges effect to clean up the soft edges.


f/22, 1/25 sec., 24 mm, ISO-400



f/22, 1/60 sec., 20 mm, ISO-400



f/22, 1/80 sec., 35 mm, ISO-400 (cropped)

I really like the tree so much. It's branching is so very awesome. I'll have to try to shoot it again sometime with the tripod and the 28-135 mm lens.

Here's another tree, on the other side of golf course.


f/22, 1/30 sec., 31 mm, ISO-400

Location: Watkins Mill Road (MV golf course)
Date: 01.02.2008 (it was sooooooo cold that morning, my hands were like ice cubes.)
Time: 8:50 AM

Geometry

f/16, 1/13 sec., 50 mm, ISO-800

Post-processing:

1) Amp treament, ink outlines, cut out (sometimes I like to use ink outlines before overlaying another effect, it emphasizes the lines, or sometimes just preserves them, depending on what the second effect is.

2) Above, with black and white (urban) conversion.

Location: MV Shopping Center
Date: 01.02.2008
Time: 8:30 AM

I can...

Two little words...that say so much. I had so much fun post processing these shots. After the minimalist version, the boosted saturation was quite fun to play with.


(This one does not have boosted sat, just the colors captured after using auto levels in PS Elements.)


(This one has poster edges.)







The shots were all taken on the same surface as Liberty.