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bobby+steve

Heath OFee — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:30:02 +0000

Winter love on a beautiful day.

Nothing better.

April Fools

Heath OFee — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:10:46 +0000

Mother Nature played a nice April Fools joke on us Calgarians last night – she gave us a light dusting of snow that remains on the ground this morning. Great way to start off the spring

New Growth

Heath OFee — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:10:19 +0000

This is a shot from my trip to the Kootenays earlier this year. I think I mentioned the huge forest fire that took out an enormous portion of this forest in a previous post. You can see more of that devastation in this shot, but you also get a peek at the new growth that will form the base of the new forest that will continue to grow in years to come.

Mountain Water

Heath OFee — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:10:59 +0000

Another long exposure from my trip to Elbow Falls last weekend.

Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L, 24mm, F 16, ISO 100

Prairie Winter

Heath OFee — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:42:11 +0000

Today is another shot from the archives…this one from a very cold February day last year. This was the very first time I went out shooting with the intention of capturing brackets for HDR processing. Is it ironic that I decided to process this as a single black and white frame with a bunch of extra film grain added for a retro feel? You be the judge

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 15mm, F 11, ISO 100, 1/40 sec

Ropes and Rails

Heath OFee — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:59:19 +0000

Today I’m sharing another shot from my trip to the Ogden industrial area here in Calgary. This is right in front of the ADM Milling shop just off Ogden road. I was drawn to this yellow box overflowing with ropes because it provided a great splash of warm colour in an otherwise very cool scene. Looking for contrast like this is something that I’ve started to pay a bit more attention to, and I’ve found it can make images much more compelling.

It was kind of a gloomy day, and there wasn’t much interest in the background, so I applied some blur in onOne’s Focalpoint 2 to really draw attention to the box. I also selectively boosted the yellow a bit really make the box the focal point of the image.

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 12mm, F 16, ISO 100, 5 Exposures

Winter Decay

Heath OFee — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:47:23 +0000

Over the past couple of months I’ve had the pleasure of making some fantastic photographer friends over Twitter, and a number of them are masters of grunge and urbex photography (you know who you are). I’ve been trying to find some suitable locations in and around the Calgary area but I haven’t been having too much luck…but don’t worry, I’m not giving up! Earlier this year I did find an old abandoned semi-trailer sitting in a field on the side of the road. You can find that image here. There also happened to be a couple of old, nasty broken down shacks next to it and I did rattle off a few brackets of those. I haven’t shared any of those images yet because, to be honest, they’re a little bit gross, but today I’m going to share one just ’cause. Enjoy some winter decay.

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 13mm, F 8.0, ISO 100, 3 Exposures

Chateau Lake Louise Sitting Room with a View

Heath OFee — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:54:07 +0000

This was one of the last places I visited during my last trip to the Chateau Lake Louise and I’m very happy that I did. I was pretty sure this would make a decent HDR photo because of the very dramatic difference in light levels between the view through the window and the ambient light in the hotel. I just processed this one last night and I’m quite happy with the results…when I look at this photo I feel like I’m back at the Chateau looking at that beautiful view! Let me know what you think:

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 10mm, F 8.0, ISO 100, 5 Exposures

The details: 5 exposure HDR tonemapped in Photomatix, layer masking in Photoshop, contrast, clarity, sharpening in Lightroom, noise reduction in Noiseware.

A Frozen Lake Louise

Heath OFee — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:13:25 +0000

I haven’t done this since I started posting one photo per week, but since I didn’t get out to do any shooting since my trip to the mountains last Monday, I’m going to post another photo from that trip. This is my first attempt at a black and white HDR image…the colors were kinda dull but there was plenty of contrast to play with so I thought a B&W conversion might be nice. I probably could have done without the HDR treatment on this image, but it helped pull out some of the detail in the partial reflection of the mountains. I’ll definitely be heading back to Lake Louise this summer to get a similar shot to present in full color with a full reflection in the lake…at least that’s my goal

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 20mm, F 8.0, ISO 100, 3 Exposures

The details: 3 exposure HDR tonemapped in Photomatix, black and white conversion, curves, and saturation adjustments in Lightroom, masked in original sky in Photoshop, noise reduction using Noiseware.

Calgary Skyline from Prince’s Island Park

Heath OFee — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:08:31 +0000

While on my downtown photowalk a couple weekends ago I made my way over to Prince’s Island Park and took a few shots there. It was a relatively cold morning at about -8 celsius and I wasn’t wearing the ideal footwear for tromping though the snow (slip on loafers were not a good choice) but I couldn’t resist this frost covered bench with the city skyline punctuated by a sunburst. The original crop of this image included a tree in the background on the far right of the frame but I was forced to crop it out when masking in the sky from one of the original images. I’m still working on the whole Photoshop masking process, and this one didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted…but I gotta keep trying if I’m gonna learn, right?

Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5, 10mm, F 16, ISO 100, 3 Exposures

This is a 3 exposure HDR image (-2,0,+2) tonemapped in Photomatix, original sky masked in from the -2 exposure with some final tweaks in Lightroom. Any critiques are more than welcome!