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Hello and welome to My View for Wednesday, January 21, 2009.

Welcome to Winter!!!

This past week, as our young new president was sworn in on a most historic occasion, we’ve had the coldest temperatures of the year here in the south. We have no right to complain, however, as our friends and families in the frigid mid-west were in extreme cold — “killin’ cold” as the old timers would say. But, for us, it was pipe-freezing cold!!

Back in 2005, a dear friend of mine and I went up in the Great Smoky Mountains for a weekend of photography. We woke up one morning to an unexpected drop in temperatures and the shivering cold of a Smokies winter. This shot was taken about an hour after sunrise on a frosty and foggy Smoky Mountain morning in Cades Cove.

I appreciate all of your comments and suggestions as they serve to make me a better photographer and person.

Thank you for visiting My View. May God bless our new president and grant him the ability to continue to inspire us and the wisdom to guide our country through such troubled times.

Winter in the Smokies

Cades Cove
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Canon 5D, 16-35mm 2.8L lens at 35mm, ISO 100, 1/125 sec, f/5.6, mounted on tripod.

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Hello and welome to My View for Sunday, January 11, 2009.

I hope your first full week of 2009 went well.

Today’s image is another from New Year’s Eve in Savannah of one of my favorite bands, The Trainwrecks. The band was playing at Club 51 degrees where there are a series of different colored stage lights that change while the band is playing. This image caught the green stage lights illuminating the band almost completely. The colorful lights at the bottom of the image are the happy accidental result of flare into the lens from the stage lights.

I appreciate all of your comments and suggestions as to how to improve my images they serve to make me a better photographer and person.

Thank you for visiting My View and I hope your 2009 is off to a great start.

In the Limelight

Club 51 Degrees, Savannah GA
Canon 5D, 50mm 1.4 lens, ISO 3200, 1/250 sec, f/1.4 handheld.

Based on your feedback about the “blue orb” in the image (a stage light that was coming up), I reworked the image so that the blue has a color more in line with the overall green/yellow in this particular image. I’d love to have your feedback on this version.

In the Limelight 02

Markus’ Solution to the hard metal reflector of the stage light.

After we all discovered that it was the hard, sharp look of the metal reflector on the stage light that was bothering us — actually think Markus discovered that first — he very kindly sent me a copy of his version to fix it. I’m posting that here and I think you will like it much better. Thank you Markus for playing with this and discovering the “real problem” and for sharing the solution. It definitely helped me look at things in a bit different way when trying to figure out a problem with an image.

Markus’ Limelight

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Hello and welome to My View for Sunday, January 5, 2009.

Happy New Year Everyone!! Welcome to 2009!!!

I had the pleasure of spending New Year’s Eve in Savannah with friends, enjoying the sounds of four of those friends, one of my favorite unsigned bands, The Trainwrecks. The band was playing at Club 51 Degrees on West Congress Street. The club had a series of colorful lights and lasers that displayed throughout the show. As the lights changed, they created a different color setting for the band, making it a fun venue to photograph.

This shot of Jason Bible, lead singer, guitarist, harmonica player and song writer for The Trainwrecks, was made with the Lensbaby Composer. At just the right angle, the stage lights created a flare ring of light in the lens. I stood in the same spot and shot a series of images, one for each of the different colors of lights as they came up. This image is a composition of shots created when each of the red, purple, aqua blue and green lights were on.

I appreciate all of your comments and suggestions as they serve to make me a better photographer and person.

Thank you for visiting My View. I wish for you all the things you desire in 2009.

Rocking In 2009 with The Trainwrecks

Club 51 Degrees, Savannah GA
Canon 5D, Lensbaby Composer with 2.8 ring, ISO 3200, 1/45 sec, handheld.
Composite of four images

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