Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A Few recent Shots of one of my favorite subjects

An 8-image HDR panorama taken at close range to Portland Head Light's beautiful lightkeeper's house.
A 15 image HDR panorama of Portland Head Light from a more traditional perspective.
A 10 image HDR panorama taken 45 minutes before the second panorama in the queue--I love the warm, late afternoon light, and the sight of what turned out to be an enormous oil tanker on the horizon.  The South Portland bridge was open for a looooonnnggg time while this boat went through and traffic was really backed up as I headed home, despite a stop at the grocery store in South Portland first!
A single shot HDR at close range to the Light Keeper's house and Portland Head Light. 
It was such a beautiful afternoon--I had been on the fence as to whether or not to go out to Portland Head Light for sunset.  I've taken so many pictures of it, obviously. . .  But Marilyn, one of the gallery owners at Kennedy Studios recently told me that people always want more shots of Portland Head Light, so who am I to go against what people want?  ;-) 

A new collage of my most popular images on my portfolio site in place of the rotating slideshow that I have never liked much.  Check out my website by clicking here 
I hope you'll take a moment to go see how the new collage/banner looks on my homepage.  I'd love to get some feedback on it.  If it doesn't show up in its entirety unless you scroll down a bit, I'd love to hear about it.  Thanks for looking!  Cindy

8 comments:

Nikhil said...

I think the first and third images are absolutely stunning! The first is a departure for you, compositionally. And I think it brings an excellent freshness to your shots of this subject.

I've mentioned before that I am not too keen on HDRs, but it is photos like these that are bringing me around. Very nicely done.

Unknown said...

Thanks so much Nik! That means so much coming from a photographer of your caliber! I think the first one is a real departure too--it just kind of occurred to me the other day--actually, the reason I've never taken that particular perspective of the lighthouse is that there are several signs posted around there that say KEEP OFF THE GRASS! I figured since it was dead for the season, it might be okay! Yes, I don't like overdone HDR either, but sometimes HDR really works if you keep it somewhat subtle. . .

Bruce said...

Not bad. Kidding!! Always love your panoramas, but the one I like best in this series is the single. Just me.

Cheers, B

Unknown said...

The last one is my favorite, Cindy.Which lens did you use? I would love to see that shot with a light on in one of the second story windows. Good work...I never tire of seeing a new (or even en old)shot of PHL.

Best regards,
Jim

Unknown said...

Thanks Bruce! lol!

Unknown said...

Thanks Jim! I shot with the Pentax DA 12-24mm--my favorite lens, easily. . . A light would've been good in one of the windows, I agree!

Unknown said...

My favorite lens too, Cindy. Did you use lens correction in PS to remove barrel distortion ?...the vertical lines are perfect.

Unknown said...

Thanks Jim,

No, I only have Photoshop CS4 (until possibly tomorrow, when my copy of CS5 should happily be arriving--finally bit the bullet and bought it!) I use two wonderful tools in the Edit menu of Photoshop. One is Edit>Transform>Warp and then the other is Edit>Transform>Distort, both of which can easily be used to correct keystoning, warped lines, etc, etc!

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