Adams Views Imaging Blog

The idea was to have everyone take and download the same somewhat lackluster shot and create a single image HDR. The original image shot was at the The Desert Inn in Yeehaw Junction, Florida by Brad Moore and is posted below, above is my spin on the piece.

I converted the single RAW file to 3 exposures and then tonemapped them in Photomatix creating 4 different reference files, each emphasizing different parts of the piece. Next I mixed and matched the parts from each of these images in Photoshop then added some Orton processing - layered and pulled back in some of the pre Orton Features, finally layered a gaussian blur layer to simulate and produce a somewhat creepy dof!
 

I often think of that rare fulfilling joy, when I am in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events. Where the light, the color, the shapes and the balance all interlock so beautifully that I feel truly overwhelmed by the wonder of it. - Charlie Waite


Some local Bluegrass Musicians playing at our weekend farmers market yesterday, they are magnificent!! I do not shoot people very often but really like the haphazard results of my experimenting on this - started with a 3 exposure hdr -;0)

You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

It is another gloomy rainy Saturday in NE Florida.  At least we are not buried in snow by the recent storms and even Grey skies can produce some beautiful moods and makes it a great day to catch up on some processing  -;0)

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Another from a collection I shot on Victory Lane in Savannah, Georgia.

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. - David Alan Harvey

The weather has been bad so I have been stuck with the archives lately and some more experiments. I am planning on doing another bike book after Bike Week this month and I always like to put a heavens chopper view from the perspective of the rider on the cover, this is one of my first candidates -;0)

As mentioned my photoshop skills are very basic but in addition to my heavens choppers series I have a desire to be able to also take some of my car and bike work from the shows and transplant them into a finer surrounding. I have seen some great examples of this but just kept it on the back-burner!

I have also been working with some tethered shooting solutions to put my D5000 into bracketing overdrive. Out of the box it will only bracket up to 3 shots @ 2EV, during testing with free software (not Nikon) I am now able to shoot any number at any ev!!!! The backgrounds on these are both 12 exposures each with one at .7ev and the other at 1ev really an eye opener for me have such a range to work with, just the tip of a big iceberg out here in rural Florida for me!!!

The white bike was built by Eddie Trotta and one of my personal favorites, something about it just grabbed me bad -;0) Its background is a house in the neighborhood that the notorious Bonnie and Clyde stayed at very long ago. The Blue S&S monster was built by Covingtons and is sitting in an old Chevy Dealership in downtown Kingsland, Ga.

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Covingtons build some of the finest bikes on the planet and although I do not know the industry that well I do believe he is very much underrated. It is all subjective though - but if you haven't give them a visit online at Covingtons Cycle City - even better try and check them out live - you might be amazed!!

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