Category Archives: reflection

Day 87

Posted by Mike on

It was another beautiful day here in Upstate New York.  Even though my office is in the basement without any windows it was hard to work until quitting time knowing what a nice day was passing me by outside.  As soon as the day was done I grabbed my stuff and headed for some pictures.  I wanted to try capturing the water flowing over the small dam on the Oriskany Creek.  The light wasn’t the best but I took multiple exposures to try to compensate.

I used Photomatix to combine the three exposures using the tone mapping process.  I few small tweaks to enhance the color and then a pass through DeNoise 5 to clean everything up.  The picture turned out better than I expected, still not as good as I have seen online but I’m learning…

Day 83

Posted by Mike on
There is a new theme on The Hobby Photographer’s Photo-Theme Page for reflections.  I’ve taken quite a few pictures where the reflection is the subject or the picture involves a reflection so this will be an easy theme for contributions.  Also, Monday’s are usually the day I get to contribute the most pictures to the daily photography themes on G+ with Mirror Monday being one I have no trouble finding subjects to photograph.
The barge canal is an easy subject for me because I have to cross over on my way home.  Making my choice to stop even easier is the location of a parking area and nature trail right off the road I travel.  Today was no exception since I noticed the warm weather had melted some of the ice and snow on the canal providing a fairly nice surface for reflections.  I knew as I walked up to the overpass that I would be processing the picture as a monochrome image due to the overcast sky and lack of foliage to provide any color.

I first tweaked the picture in Lightroom to get the best color picture I could.  I then passed the picture through Topaz Labs B&W Effects to help bring out the details in the picture.  The results are a little more pronounced than I usually produce but I think it works well for this picture.