My fiance has been telling me about Garden of the Gods for nearly as long as I've known her. Well, on my Christmas trip out to Colorado this year, we finally made it over there for a hike. It wasn't the best time of day light-wise, but it was still everything she said it would be.
My fiance and her nephew ride a horse at sunset in Colorado.
Some of Julie's dad's cows come to see if I have any range cubes to give them. It looks like this one is picking his nose with his tongue.
OK, lots of work done on this one.
PHOTOMATIX: 6 RAW files combined to one HDR file. Then, tone mapped and saved as a TIFF.
PHOTOSHOP: Lens correction to straighten columns. Duped layer, then applied a high pass filter. Layer set to overlay and a mask used to fine tune layer. Selective color adjustment layer used to lighten trees and structure and darken water and sky. Levels adjustment layer used to darken shadows a bit. Black and white adjustment layer used to darken water and sky and eliminate color. A texture layer was added and the blending properties tweeked allow the light structure to bleed through. A sepia color layer set to Soft Light blending mode and reduced to 21% finalizes the look.
I processed this photo because my fiance said that even though she liked the other version of the Walton Lighthouse, the tilted horizon bothered her. So this one is for her.
Train trestle next to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk at sunset. This is three photos combined in Photomatix and then toned in lightroom, then converted to black and white in Photoshop.
This is three shots digitally combined in Photoshop of the Walton Lighthouse in Santa Cruz.
This was my vacation. I've taken the week off from work and I journeyed up to San Francisco by myself to sit around and shoot the Palace of Fine Arts. It's a place I always wanted to shoot, but never got around to it. I waited all day for the sun to set and the lights to come on. I did have a slight problem though. It was so cold that moisture was building on (and I think inside) my lens. A lot of the later shots have this odd glow about them. Guess I have to keep the lens warm. Live and learn.
The best man at my wedding and his daughter enjoying an afternoon at the harbor in Santa Cruz.
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