As a followup to a June 2016 trip, I needed to make a Chisos Mountain Summer Hike Loop. My June trip left me wanting more. August is still a great time to go to Big Bend. There are no crowds, and it is the rainy season. The higher elevations of the Chisos Mountains are cooler […]
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On a recent trip to Big Bend National Park, I shot sequences that could be merged into Chisos Mountain Panoramas. I stitched the panos using Adobe Lightroom. I have used other software before to make panos. However the latest version of Lightroom does a pretty good job. I generated three Chisos Mountain Panoramas: Firstly is a
The Contest Bullock Museum Photo Contest – In honor of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the National Park Service, the Bullock Museum in Austin, Texas is sponsoring an exhibition highlighting Big Bend National Park. The exhibition will present artifacts and photographs that the showcase the beauty of Texas’ most treasured jewel. The museum has reached
Attached are 3 original exposures used to generate a Tone Mapped HDR. I tried to keep it natural and still capture the full range of shadow and highlight….you decide? Firstly to generate the final Tone Mapped HDR required multiple over and under exposures. Additionally I used a 5 stop range in this exercise. I began with +2,metered,
Learning how to use the new camera, I decided to try some ambient low light photos at high ISO. I wanted to gauge the Nikon D7000 High ISO Performance Pretty decent results considering handheld under tungsten lighting. I used Adobe LR 3.5 to post process a 16 MP Raw file. Although this is a very
I picked up a new camera this week and planned a trip to Brazoria NWR to run it through its paces. The lighting was dull, and the drought has all but eliminated the freshwater ponds that have attracted in past, so many birds. Still it was great to get out and I did manage to