Monthly Archives: March 2013

More of Galveston

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We were In Galveston again last weekend, and I seriously worked on getting a lot of HDR shots.The stacks of rocks like I photographed last year were back, but not as many.  This one had pretty good light, so I worked on it.  This picture was well received on Flickr and ViewBug.

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The shrimp boats in docked by the harbor seemed to me to be a good subject.

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Ft. Crockett’s white canvas shades impressed me as a good subject as well.

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And I wanted to get one of the Bishop’s Palace.

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Across Broadway from Bishop’s Palace was an old house that had cement flower boxes that were crusted with moss.

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HDR Landscapes – Hwy 31

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Clarke’s workshop was in Tyler.  On the way back, I stopped several times on Hwy 31 and got some road side images.  Mostly around Corsicana. There was a place on the East side of Corsicana that had lots of old railroad wheel sets stacked up, making for interesting patterns.

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West of Corsicana there was this abandoned house with an old car in the front yard, and cattle grazing all around it.

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Railroad Bridge

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There is a railroad bridge on I-35W north of Itasca that I have always thought would be a great picture.  I have tried several times over the years, and never gotten anything good.  I finally got a 10 – 20 mm lens and thought maybe that lens would be what I needed.

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Although I still was no able to get the image I really wanted this one was pretty good.  Right there, I found an old, rusted machine used for planting, and got some pictures of that as well.

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HDR Landscapes – Hwy 36

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The TMCA Spring Workshop was in Abilene.  So, we took Hwy 36 up through Hamilton.  Along the way, we stopped a couple places and got some nice images.

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I am getting a little more comfortable with doing these HDR images, but I would really like a better understanding of the various adjustments in Photomatix. These had very mild HDR effects applied to them.

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Galveston HDR Images

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We went to GalI decided it might be good to take a series of HDR image around Galveston.  So, over the weekend, I went to a variety of places.

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For some of them, I used a very light HDR application, but for other, much more intense.

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This made me really start to consider these kinds of images in a different way.  I am wondering if there would be any commercial value to these either as individual images or as a book.

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