Winter Post

Despite living in the 'warmest place to be for the world cup' I was able to get away and chase some snow. Here's my winter shot for this month's theme. This was taken outside Matatiele on the way down to Barkly East for a Winter Mountain Photography workshop that I was running. The shot is a 7 image panoramic shot at 80mm on my 80-200mm zoom (all verticals). I had a .6 (2 stop) hard ND grad in place.

Any c and c always welcome and appreciated.
Cheers
E

New Theme - Winter

The blog has been really quiet over the world cup period, so to kick off again here's the theme for August - Winter. Pop in a pic or two taken over the winter period, or even one that you like from last year, or the year before...or before that.

For anyone interested, I've just posted a new tutorial on HDR blending using tonal masks (at long last). Click on the link to go through to the article.

Cheers, E

Eyes II

So Festival and football are over.
Felt it!

Thanks to The Giant Match's visit to the frontier, eye grabbed this shot of a puppet.
I toyed with cropping the puppet's eyes out altogether trying to make it more abstract but in the end stuck with this more traditional version. The original contains the eyes (of the puppet) in entirety.

Specs: EOS 7D, sigma 18-50mm at 35mm (crop factor = 56mm) iso 100, fill flash at 1/2 power.

As always comments welcome!

Paul.