Ever wonder what a professional sports photographer looks like on the sideline of an NFL game in subzero weather?
Well, here you go. This is what twelve layers (really only four layers) of clothes looks like over a photog. Turns you into the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
There is this little Christmas Village inside Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh. This is the featured hut within the village. About the only time to catch it without a line of people is the middle of the night or very early in the morning, which is when I captured this.
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Like many areas of the country today, we got a little bit of snow (maybe 3 inches). So I took advantage of the situation and got outside to capture some winter photos, including some drone photography….. This is a photo of our home with Blair spreading salt on the driveway (look closely).
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Sorry about missing my normal rotation. Tonight I have another photo from McConnells Mill State Park. I took this a few weeks ago while on a photo walk with Brad and Dave. It hasn’t warmed up much since then, but all the snow is now gone.
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Special Note: A while back, I was contacted by Eric DeJesus who is taking classes down in Georgia. He asked for permission to use one of my photos in his class. He took my photo from Carnegie Music Hall and added the notes and violinist. Here is the final product.
Here is the link to Eric’s page: http://edtoshiro.deviantart.com/art/Violinist-s-Dream-436485214
Here is another picture from McConnells Mill State Park in western Pennsylvania. This is the little stream that runs over the falls. I liked how the stream had to pass through this narrow gorge before reaching the waterfall.
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I haven’t been out taking any photos lately and I’ve missed it. So today, Dave, Brad and I went to McConnells Mill State Park in western Pennsylvania to capture some pics. It was cold, snowy, and very very fun. We spend hours hiking around the park, including a mile through the snow to Hell’s Hollow Falls. I know a mile doesn’t seem like much, but trust me when I say it wasn’t an easy walk in the snow. So tonight I am posting a picture from the photo walk. This is the covered bridge near the old mill near the eastern side of the park.
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Last week was a good week for me as a photographer. As you saw on my previous post, I had a picture selected as the Top Five on Facebook for the week. I also had another photo selected as the Editor’s Choice on the website HDRSpotting.com. Happy for me.....Lame I know...
Tonight’s photo is of a winter country road in southwestern Pennsylvania. Plain, simple, and just a nice location. This was taken as 5 exposure auto-bracketed set, merged in Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6.
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HDR One Facebook Friday Week 22:
Every week http://www.hdrone.com/ selects five HDR photos posted on Facebook that they feel are the best of the week. They have been doing this for 22 weeks straight and I’ve made the list 2 weeks including last week. They post their favorites every Friday night. I am happy to have been selected and you can see the article here: http://www.hdrone.com/2013/02/facebook-friday-week-22/
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Tonight’s photo is of a covered bridge in Mingo Park within Washington County PA. I took this about 3 weeks ago along with a few others. I was happy with many of them and will probably share a few more in the coming weeks.
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Wet Foot
Yesterday, we finally got some sun here south of Pittsburgh. There have been so many cloudy gray days, that it’s been depressing. So with nothing to do and a little sun, MJ and I went to a few local spots to get some winter pictures. This picture is of Henry Bridge in Washington County’s Mingo Park.
I wanted to get as close to the water as possible to get some great details in the foreground. To get this picture, I was standing in the water (this time of year, the river level is low), which I expected to be fine with my boots…. Well, I didn’t realize the right boot was ripped open allowing a free flow of water inside the boot. I’ve had these boots for a long time, but I rarely use them. Therefore I was a little shocked to fine my foot getting wet and cold. After getting over this little shock, we captured some great photos. In the end, we had some great weather for this time of year and a wet foot, which was a small price to pay for this photo.
I used my Nikon D800 with a 14-24mm 2.8 lens on a tripod. I extended the tripod legs out to the side as far as possible to get my camera within about 12 inches of the water. I set the camera on Aperture mode with it set at f22 to make sure I had a very large field of view. I also set my camera up to take a 5-bracket set of exposures (+2, +1, 0, -1, -2). After getting home, I processed the 5 exposures in Photomatix Pro to get the HDR image and did some minor editing in PS CS6 (sharpened, reduced noise, and deleted a few things like a trash can and some street signs).
There you have it. A fairly good winter stream photo. Enjoy.
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