oh Christmas tree

pretty kitty

f/1.8

1/15

50mm

ISO 400

kitties in the window

f/2.8

1/80

50mm

ISO 800

sharpie love

f/6.3
1.3 sec
100mm
ISO 200

playing card

f/5.0
0.6 sec
100mm macro
ISO 200

colored salt

f/11.0
2.5 sec.
100mm macro
ISO 200

oh Canada

In honor of the Olympics...

f/4.0

0.6 sec

100mm macro

ISO 200

glass rim

f/8.0

1.3 sec.

100mm macro

ISO 200

tickled pink

f/5.6 - 1/6 - 100mm macro - ISO 200

f/2.0 - 1/80 - 50mm - ISO 200

f/10.0 - 1.3sec - 100mm macro - ISO 200

quarters

f/10.0

2.5 sec.

100mm macro

ISO 200

red waves

f/10.0

6 sec.

100mm

ISO 200

closed sunflower

f/3.2

1/8

100mm

ISO 200

daisy mum

f/3.2

0.6

100mm

ISO 200

bottles galore

f/1.8
1/200
50mm
ISO 400

just me

f/4.0
0.8 sec
50mm
ISO 800

silhouette

Trying out my new remote

f/4.0

1/20

50mm

ISO 800

tax day

f/9.0
0.4 sec.
100mm
ISO 800

dried lotus pod

I came across an interesting technique called High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography and just had to try it out. Check out these awesome images, here, here and here. I personally think it works better on landscape type pictures, but I tried it out with something else...a dried lotus pod I had in my house.



f/5.6
0.3 sec
100mm
ISO 800

First I applied the HDR technique using the Photomatix software
Then I played around with a brightness/contrast layer in PSE

fringe

f/2.8
1/25
100mm
ISO 800

eye of the tiger

f/4.0
1/100
100mm
ISO 800

I cropped the original picture down a tad, bumped up the yellow and green a little and then used the curves application available in PSE and applied the increase constrast option.