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Highway – heath ofee dot com https://heathofee.com Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:41:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 Harvest Moon https://heathofee.com/2010/10/01/harvest-moon/ https://heathofee.com/2010/10/01/harvest-moon/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:41:03 +0000 http://heathofee.com/?p=1120 In my previous post I alluded to taking some shots of the super harvest moon that we got last week, so I thought I’d better share one of my images before everyone forgets about the occasion. I’ll be honest, and tell you that I wasn’t terribly impressed with the whole harvest moon thing. I guess I was expecting to see a giant moon rising over the horizon, and although the moon was full, and appeared quite large and bright, it wasn’t quite as epic as I was expecting. Despite the bit of disappointment I was feeling, I still convinced myself to rattle off a few brackets to see what I could come up with.

Unfortunately, the disappointment didn’t end with the harvest moon itself. After unloading my images and sifting through them, I found that I wasn’t particularly impressed with any of the shots I got of the harvest moon. I ran a couple sets of brackets through Photomatix and was still not very happy with the results…so, what to do? I knew I wanted to post a harvest moon shot, and now it was almost like a challenge to make at least one of them work. Maybe not the best exercise, but it forced me to get the creative juices flowing a little bit. I decided to throw a texture onto a single exposure (-2 ev) to add a bit of extra interest. After a few other local adjustments and a global saturation shift, I ended up with what you see below…and I’m actually quite pleased with how it all turned out in the end. Moral of the story? Not really sure…be persistent? Stubbornness sometimes pays off? You be the judge 🙂

Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L, 102mm, F 11, ISO 100, 1/30sec

]]> https://heathofee.com/2010/10/01/harvest-moon/feed/ 8 Racing the Sunset https://heathofee.com/2010/09/30/racing-the-sunset/ https://heathofee.com/2010/09/30/racing-the-sunset/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:15:01 +0000 http://heathofee.com/?p=1114 Recently my friend Brian Matiash touched on the subject of photographers always racing against the sunset/blue hour, trying to make sure we get all the shots we want before that magical light runs out for the day. I’m definitely no stranger to that feeling, and found myself in exactly that situation last week when trying to get a few shots of the setting sun before I turned my attention to the harvest moon. For me it was a bit of a double race since I was also trying to catch the gaps between cars so I could set up smack dab in the middle of the road for this shot…thankfully, I found a relatively vacant stretch of secondary highway just south of the city and had plenty of opportunity.

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

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