Still Life

I saw these seed pods in my mums garden - I knew immediately that they must be photographed, the intricacy of the veins coursing through the leaves, the perfectly formed sphere in the centre, the extravagant yet regular shape. Unfortunately I am yet to do them justice with my photography but here is what I have so far.

HDR round 2

I have just purchased Photomatix pro - In my opinion worth the discounted £63 I paid for it using the following discount coupon to reduce the price by 20%  'kelbytraininghdr'  you may remember my earlier post HDR in which I gave a preview of what the program is capable of in terms of recovery of too far underexposed or overexposed shots.


Well I thought I might just whip out a quick post showing the results with the non watermarked full definition version on some old pictures that I have probably posted before but anyway - here they are...


Original:

After HDR processing:

Post produciton

Recently I have been fiddling a little with Photoshop Elements to try and produce some 'finished work' pieces. It's still in it's infancy but here is the product of a little tinkering that I've been doing.

Early morning

I decided to take an early morning walk - I wanted to see the sunrise as I hadn't done so in far too long. Unfortunately from where I live and where the sun rises this is somewhat of an impossibility as the horizon is well and truly blocked from sight, mainly by trees. Even climbing to the highest point in the tallest tree in our garden I could not catch a glimpse of the sun. As I was out on a walk anyway I thought I'd better not waste the journey so took a few snaps that I had been meaning to catch in our area when no one was around and this seemed as fitting time as any.