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Nice Kendal.
I was lucky enough to be in Nova Scotia (family road trip) this past summer during their bi-annual “Tall Ship” celebrations. Tall Ships from all over the world/NA? show up and make different ports for two weeks.. We were always 2 days behind where the ships were moving to, but the ones we saw that lagged behind were fantastic.Your post is useless without photos.
😉
(Seriously though – if you have any of them I suspect we’d enjoy ’em)
Carter –
I am not sure the moving water would work with HDR, since it requires a longer exposure; it might, I suppose, but you might also get stray stuff floating across the layers that aren’t on both (HDR requiring more than one shot, after all). He also has some moving grass, etc., that doesn’t look like it’s been masked over or anything.
Zach
I’m with the other guys Zach – I think it’s HDR – but what he’s doing is just taking his RAW image and creating 2 (or more) copies with the exposures bumped and lowered, then making the combine and tweaking.
Some folks call it “fake” HDR – but I think that’s what’s going on here.
I like ’em too btw – not like the usual over-burned HDRs where your eyes hurt after looking at a couple of ’em.
That’s awesome Kendall. What is the statue on the front of a bow more commonly referred to? Whatever it is called, it made for some great pics. I wish I had the stones to sport some lambchops like that guy.
Maybe we could shave the Dude and give him a similar look!
DustyThat’d be a figurehead:
https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
Thought you guys might find this interesting!
And – you might find this interesting too – that is, if you don’t want to give your photos away to Adobe to make money with them, don’t use it.
http://aphotoeditor.com/2008/03/27/free-photoshop/
Specifically note in their Terms of Service:
“Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.”
Kendal
Well, it’s mostly been an issue since I moved down to Texas. Water snakes in especially freak me out. While I was born and raised in Texas (Houston area) I got started in fly fishing up in Maine and got used to going anywhere and doing anything without worrying if I could see where I was putting my hands and feet (which means I spend a lot more time looking through a lens and not where my limbs are when I’m in Maine). I still get outside (I fish the Guadalupe quite a bit). I just don’t get off the paths much when I’m fishing closer to home (currently Sugar Land).
I’m in the inverse; grew up in Northern Minnesota, where you worried more about bears than snakes.
It is posted here…
http://www.itinerantangler.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1206504682
Oh man – that’s just great Kevin.
Just great.
Kendal
I did some product shots, a while back, and that too was a singular focus. Have to admit that it is kind of cool to go to markets in the Baltic States and sections of Russia and see part of my portfolio on packages setting on the shelves. lol
Ben –
PLEASE tell me you made photographs of that – and then please tell me that you’ll post them here sometime.
Thanks Kevin, just didn’t want you to think that I was not a person of my word 😉 . The drawing of your Grandfather sounds cool and I have no doubt that it is an amazing image. I envy drawing abilities as I can barely draw my name, much less something recognizable :).
Ha
Nice shots Kendal,
They really make me think that I really need to get over my paranoia about snakes (the gators don’t bother me so much). It looks like I’m missing out on some good photos (and fishing) because of it. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I have a phobia of snakes, but if I see one I get anxious and am not able to enjoy whatever it is I’m doing even if I know for certain that it’s not poisonous.
I love your work, the reds remind of my grandfathers second home in Steinhatchee Florida. I learned how to drive on those straight roads when I was eleven. I basically grew up fishing those flats and havent been there in years. After looking through your photos, I need to plan a trip. I would love to see my wife hook into one of those reds (any red for that matter)
I will dig through the site a little better tomorrow on a land line. I REALLY LOVE THE EGGS. I might be buying that one for my wife. AND I will not ask about your experiences with Absinths.
I had a library that was full of just about any kind of commercial use background imagery that you could imagine. I have rethought my focus and want to narrow my illustrations to an out door focus. So here is a good list for you. I am basically looking for the stuff to build “THE REST OF THE STORY” that was mentioned in the “Golden Rule” thread.
trees,
grasses.
Macro water and rock shots
Insects
all around nature shots
Good landscape shots
odds and end fish or outdoor imagery.
Bird Hunting
Dogs
Birds (Quail, Grouse, and So On)And So On…. Outdoor stuff
I lost EVERYTHING in a fire and there are somethings the insurance company cannot replace. All of mine was slides and I would project it and paint it (kind of loosely to make it fit what I needed at the time) Now I am rethinking how I do everything.
I lost all my computers, art studio, fishing and hiking gear, tools and so on. Everything down to the shirt on my back and my winston in my car. It has been a hard row to hoe but we are coming out stronger than ever. I now am working on focusing my career to what I really want to do
Thanks and I truly appreciate the support.
Kevin.
Hey Kevin –
Start here:
This all reminds me in fact of the flooding that occurred on the Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake in Central Texas.
That area is supposed to be the southern-most self-sustaining trout fishery in the U.S. – which was discovered quit by accident years ago – but it was almost wiped out when there was an overflow in 2002 (I think that’s right).
Sadly, that flooding wasn’t controlled – but it’s still a cool place.
I think I’ve a set up from there – hang on – yeah –
http://www.kendallarsonphotography.com/tpwdguad/
We’d just gone through a certified fishing instructor course that TPWD puts on as we might incorporate it into our certified kayak fishing training (another story for another time – I’m working with a couple other guys on a non-profit that’s a kayak fishing advocacy group called KASA – Kayak Anglers Society of America) – and then spent an afternoon on the Guad afterwards.
The river is still a beauty – houses many treasures – and some good trout too, due in part to TU’s efforts there – and TPWD’s efforts too.
Kendal
Heh – beauty – you beat me to posting.
Great capture of the power of that water – amazing!
I’ve gotta get up that way to fish – my bud’s folks live somewhere up there, and we keep talking about chasing trout there. We’ve gotta stop talking and start fishing!
Hey Kendall. I saw we posted at the same time! Nice to see you still working.
Zoomed through your awesome images and will have to go back through more slowly a second time. Very nice. Great owl pics.
Bluebonnets close to being out?
That place is special – folks can do well there if they’ve a mind to. The rookery is really amazing, and soon it’ll be filled with chicks (only a few have hatched thus far). Made me really whiney though – I *want* long glass (shot all those with a 70 – 200 IS 2.8 Canon – without a teleconverter).
The owl was a treat – was on my belly shooting that rabbit I stumbled on when I noticed him above.
Bluebonnets are out in some places – I’m hoping they’re not gone by the time I go to El Paso, which is in about 3 weeks – but I fear they’ll have had their best showing already.
Sure is a special time of year down here.
Kendal
Add me to the same list Ben added himself to – I’ve been around a bit, and would be willing to help you out.
A wide variety of shoots.
If you post a wishlist, we can go from there.
A very worthy photo made sir – nothing better than a mix that’s ironic.
Well recognized, and well captured.
Kendal
Nice Kendal.
….I have to tell you, it is MADDENING to miss some photos!
Yes it is 🙂
Ive been trying hard to capture a sequence of that special moment just before impact of a Harris smoking a rabbit. Trying to anticpate sightlines in the scrub is the hard part and then I need to get lucky.For BiF (Birds in Flight) you want todo everything you can to squeeze every last drop out of your sytems AF speed. This is all about hardware but there are a couple things you can do. Make sure you on center point only af, if your lens has a limiter switch set it to smaller of the two and if you can try to “preset” focus by preiodically focusing on anything at a distance that would be where a majority of flybys take place.
The limiter switch reduces how much the lens will look to acheive focus. At maximum it will “search” from its MFD to infinty. So if you set it at its smaller option it will only search through a smaller range.
It helps alot with acquiring initial focus.if most action takes place somewhere betweeen 30 and 50 feet anytime you focus outside that, “preset” focus by locking onto something around 30 feet away. That way if something does happen at 40feet, the lens is dialed into 30feet and it can focus that much faster.
With the speed these birds move at fractions of a second make a large difference. Hope you dont mind me adding 2 frames to your post but it should illustrate just how much a difference it can make.
keep in mind I get 8 frames/second
Image # 7435Image # 7436….1/8th of a second later
The two frames may as well be completely different images. Not only is it considerably closer in #2 its entire body posture is different just .125 of a second later.
That fraction of a second can mean the difference between a shot thats on your wall and one that leaves you cursing a blue streak as focus as just off.
Hope I don’t mind?
