Lilly (paintbrush)

This weekend I met up with a local photographer at Longwood Gardens. I was scouting out the Orchid festival they have going on right now when I came across this Lilly. I used a paintbrush in photoshop for effect. Enjoy

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Nick

Snow & Ice

For the last couple of weeks I've been waiting for snow. Actually I hadn't realised how much time I had in between posts.
Over last weekened we had temperatures drop into the single digits for highs. Then with snow coming in last tuesday I wanted to get out and shoot. This is actually in the creekbed near Holtwood PA that I did some fall foilage shots in; I really want to capture all four seasons in this creekbed. I applied a blue filter, and some grain paint strokes for effect. I hope you enjoy.

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Nick

Lilly at Longwood

I returned to Longwood Gardens to continue with some expirementing. I didn't quite get what I wanted but this worked out in the long run. I took two shots of this Lilly one with the focus sharp and the other one was slightly out of focus. I then tone mapped the two as an HDR image. It's one way to get a sort of paintly effect without using the paint brushes in photoshop. I shot these two at ISO100, a shutter at 1/30sec and f-8. So far this year is off to a good start. Also I guess you could say I've spent some quality time at Longwood Gardens. It's a good place to go especially when there's no snow and it's too cold to be outside shooting. Thanks for viewing

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Nick

Orcids at Longwood

Well with the New Year started I'm off and running. Out of the 5 days so far I've been shooting on three of them. After doing a sunrise over an amish farm I spent the rest of Saturday morning at Longwood Gardens. I've been experimenting with different types exposures trying to get effects that I've never done before. I'll blog about that later. I spent most of Saturday experimenting with different flash settings and working on different types of composition with the light. Also I wanted to get a head start on the Orchids before the festival later in the month.

This image here is pretty basic the metadata is an ISO100 at 1/30sec, f-8 the only thing I did different was in photoshop I applied a yellow filter and increased the luminosity to 60%. To throw out any potential distractions.

I felt that there was too much green from the ferns in the background.

One of my goals this winter is too increase my flowers theme. I also want to be more artistic in the composition. I feel that I'm off on the right foot. Enjoy

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Nick

New Years Day

I want to start the New Year fresh with a new image. On New Years day I had the oppourtunity to get together with some local photographers and shoot a fox hunt in Chester County. The high when we got out there was somewhere in the 20's with wind chill in the teens. Weather was really not helping out.

I like to call this image 'guidance' because the Hunt Master is getting guidance from an older gentleman. In photoshop I applied a slight paintbrush to the image for a stronger affect. Throughtout the weekend I'll be adding more images to my gallery, in the 'New Stuff' folder.

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Nick