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Buffalo National River and NW Arkansas
Skunked in Boxley, Wounds Licked at Ozark Campground with Fall Color
Another kind of weird day. I am transitioning to a brief period of landscape photography mixed into my wildlife photo shoot. I will be busier than heck for the next few weeks. Competing subjects, both pegged to the season.
It is not really terrible to swap fall color landscape photography for the elk, when the elk bail out on me. When you see the elk as much as I do, compelling shots are harder to come by. Much as I enjoy the elk, anymore I want them in unusual settings, or fighting. That makes shooting tough any time. Still I would not trade my office for anyone's cubicle. By comparison, landscape photography is child's play. Thank god the trees, rocks, and old barns don't move around that much.
I have started experimenting with high dynamic range photography (HDR). 96 bit color is amazing, and the results are often stunning. I used HDR with some good results on waterfalls this spring. The plan has always been to roll out the HDR this fall for fall color. I am only showing three photos today because HDRs take some time to knock off. I like the Photomatix Pro 3 program, in conjunction with PS3 and Viveza for this work. Great tools, but time consuming.
Today's photos from the Ozark Campground (off Highway 7) on the Buffalo National River:
Another kind of weird day. I am transitioning to a brief period of landscape photography mixed into my wildlife photo shoot. I will be busier than heck for the next few weeks. Competing subjects, both pegged to the season.
It is not really terrible to swap fall color landscape photography for the elk, when the elk bail out on me. When you see the elk as much as I do, compelling shots are harder to come by. Much as I enjoy the elk, anymore I want them in unusual settings, or fighting. That makes shooting tough any time. Still I would not trade my office for anyone's cubicle. By comparison, landscape photography is child's play. Thank god the trees, rocks, and old barns don't move around that much.
I have started experimenting with high dynamic range photography (HDR). 96 bit color is amazing, and the results are often stunning. I used HDR with some good results on waterfalls this spring. The plan has always been to roll out the HDR this fall for fall color. I am only showing three photos today because HDRs take some time to knock off. I like the Photomatix Pro 3 program, in conjunction with PS3 and Viveza for this work. Great tools, but time consuming.
Today's photos from the Ozark Campground (off Highway 7) on the Buffalo National River:
Shameless Self-Promotion Department
My framed wildlife prints are on display and for sale at a number of locations:
Jasper
Boardwalk Cafe/Arkansas House
Cliff House Inn
Point of View Restaurant
Jasper Chamber Gift Shop
Ponca
Lost Valley Canoe Store
Villines Store (Boxley Valley)
Low Gap
Low Gap Store
Compton
Compton One Stop
Harrison
Uncommon Grounds Coffee Shop
My framed wildlife prints are on display and for sale at a number of locations:
Jasper
Boardwalk Cafe/Arkansas House
Cliff House Inn
Point of View Restaurant
Jasper Chamber Gift Shop
Ponca
Lost Valley Canoe Store
Villines Store (Boxley Valley)
Low Gap
Low Gap Store
Compton
Compton One Stop
Harrison
Uncommon Grounds Coffee Shop
Boxley Valley Update -- 10/12/08 (Ozark Campground)
Left is a nice guy from Dallas (and his dog). I chatted with him and will be sending him some shots of he and his dog on the Buffalo River if he ever emails me. This is a rare opportunity for him to get a free portrait from someone who rarely does bipeds, and seldom humans.
HDR landscape of the Buffalo National River at the Ozark Campground. You can see the 3-D look of HDR, and the compelling view of fall color. I like to load in as many visual elements as possible like the sky reflection and the strong tree trunks placed on the left side. I see fall color as makeup, but not the image. A visual garnish. This is the combination of 3 different exposures.
This is another HDR, but it is a little different approach to use of the technology. In this case, I used the combined 3 images as a layer placed on top of the "normal" exposure of the image, then I used the transparency slider to mix the two layers. This is like having it both ways, plus, as many of you know, you can also use layer masks to determine what to show in the final image. I like the subtlety of this approach.