Playtime

I was watching the kids play in the back yard with this beautiful sunset as a backdrop. I took this picture with Pro HDR, the yard was actually in pretty deep shadow and the processing in Pro HDR washed it out quite a bit. I put the image in PhotoWizard, masked out everything above the roof line of the houses, then applied some exposure and color correction to the bottom portion to bring back a more natural look.

Abandoned

This image is inspired by an exhibition of old photographs that I saw on the Library of Congress website, "Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943" which can be seen here. I wanted to emulate the style I had seen in these old photos. This old building was the perfect subject to capture the feel of a depression era farm. For this image I used Pro HDR to take the picture, the reason behind that choice was that there was bright sun that day making for a high contast image. When using the standard camera app the front of the building was cast in very dark shadows and no detail could be seen. By using Pro HDR I was able to even out the contrast and pull up the finer details in the scene. I then processed the image in Lo-Mob to give it that old film look. I think this photo would fit right in with the Library of Congress collection.

Reflections

Another picture of the same aircraft that I took at the Camarillo air show. I wanted to push the limits of the iPhone 4 camera so I stood directly in the glare cast by the sun reflecting off of the wing. the glare overpowered the standard camera app and it simply could not get the shot. I switched to Pro HDR to capture this image and it did a beautiful job at capturing the full dynamic range in the scene. I especially like how it really brings out the deep colors of the reflections on the polished fuselage of the Mustang. This picture does highlight one of the drawbacks of using Pro HDR however: Any moving object can create strange effects. Take a look about midway along the wing and you will notice the decapitated body walking underneath. It seems to have left it's head floating nearby above.

Said the duck to the Frog

There were these little statues of a duck and a frog in a backyard garden that I wanted to photograph. As I was looking for interesting angles I noticed the ball lying in the grass nearby and I immediately knew how I wanted to compose my shot. Taken with Pro HDR on the iPhone 4, then processed in TiltShift Generator for the blurred edges and vignetting.

Toy Story

The view from my hotel room in Las Vegas, instead of a view of the strip I got a view of the parking lot. But the setting sun was producing some very dynamic colors and I thought it would be a good opportunity to test out an app that I had just purchased: Pro HDR. The image came out great but the scene was still boring so I put the image in TiltShift Generator and added some extreme blur, then upped the saturation just a bit. It really does kinda look like a model set.

Solar Portal. My first HDR timelapse video

My first HDR and my first time lapse video. I did this as an entry for the Gizmodo video challenge. Images were captured with my iPhone 4 using Pro HDR. Every frame is captured manually since Pro HDR lacks a time lapse feature. I spent 3 hours lying in the grass to capture all of the frames for the video. What a guy won't do for art.

You can also watch it in High Def on Youtube and on Vimeo at: http://vimeo.com/19612095