Another shot from our trip to Stonington Maine. The sun was so bright in most of my coastal shots that I had some terrible lens flares all over. Most of my photos were unusable as such. This was one that I was able to salvage. My mentor, Trey Ratcliffe likes to leave flares in his photographs, but I tend not to. I did leave some rainbowing in, as it was beyond my skill to fix and most importantly, didn't look terrible. This photo was also made salvageable in thanks to the new de-ghosting features in the latest updates of photomatix. Nothing like having a super sharp tide crash in HDRs :) EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM @ 15mm ISO 100, f/22 at 1/125, 1/30, and 1/8 second
A photo taken literally in my own back yard. There's a tree visible from my kitchen window that had a vine growing on it. I took a 5 Exposure HDR of this one, the lack of noise in the background is entirely thanks to the extra over exposed shots.
We recently had a crazy rain storm around here, and many places had some severe flooding. Lynne's area got it bad, many roads were shut down, and it was amazing just how many houses had brand new lakes in their front yards. This was taken in my neck of the woods though. In Wrentham, there's some large fields with a nice country road winding between them. It's a nice back route that I love to drive, especially at night. Back when I had just purchased my DSLR, it had flooded, and I never got anything I really liked. Well I decided I wouldn't let another flood go to waste. Using an app on my iPod Touch I figured out when sunset would be, and I went out there with my tripod and gear. Turns out sunrise would work better with what I was shooting, as the sunset was at my back for most of what I shot. It still gave a nice color gradient in the sky, which is never a bad thing to get naturally. EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM @ 45mm ISO 100, F/22 at 1, 4 and 15 seconds.
