Last night I went for a bike ride to capture some night shots of Rosemary Beach. This is the Town Hall and US Post Office on the coastal side of 30A. The stars were amazing and show up well in this picture. The image was shot with a Nikon D800 and 14-24mm f/2.8, 100 ISO, 5 frames between 1.3 seconds and 20 seconds. It was processed using Photomatix and Lightroom.
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Carson Matthews
Since I started shooting HDR photos I have been using SNS-HDR to process the images. I gave Photomatix a shot but SNS had a more natural look that I was looking for in my real estate photography. Today I decided to circle back to Photomatix and process some of the shots I have taken over the past year. Here is an example of one that I took over spring break in Rosemary Beach Florida. I like the way it processed in SNS and maintains a natural look, but this time in Photomatix I went for a more creative touch and boy did it come out. Here is the SNS version https://carsonvision.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/rosemary-beach-grass-park.jpg. Compared to the Photomatix version below. What do you think?
Each day the lawn is covered up with bicycles and kids playing ball. These homes have a great view of the Gulf of Mexico, but the view of these homes isn’t too shabby.
One of the many walking paths meandering through Rosemary Beach.
An HDR sunset over Rosemary Beach in the Florida Panhandle.
This morning we were greeted on the beach by this massive storm system that tried to come onto land. It slowly moved around us but never hit.
This week for the Shutterboo Weekly Photo Challenge the subject is ‘Circle.’ We are spending spring break in Rosemary Beach, Florida so I have been excited about finding a circle. The whole time I’ve known in my head that I was ultimately going to get a shot of the sunset since we are on the west coast, and the sunsets over here are sick. Two nights ago it was pretty overcast and as the clouds passed in front of the sun, the outline of the sun was perfect and clear, but it looked more like the moon. Last night I started getting ready to run over to the beach for my shot, grabbed my camera off the ottoman on the front porch, and my nightmare began in very slow motion. I picked it up by the body, but the strap was caught on the corner of the ottoman, and my camera slammed back down on the concrete porch. My heart sank as I went to pick it up, only to see all of the glass cracked.
I have a UV filter over the lens and it was hard to determine if only it was broken, or if the lens was cracked as well. I wasn’t able to get the UV filter off, and had to get the sunset shot, so I raced over to the beach with my 50mm knowing I wouldn’t get the shot I wanted, but could make due.
This morning I went over to the maintenance department and borrowed some pliers and was able to pry the filter off and happily found a beautiful unscathed piece of Nikon glass.
I’m going to use the sunset shot for my entry this week, but here are several others I got during the week including a shot of the circle filter. Let’s hope for an easier time next week
Here are some pictures from my yard this Spring and that of my neighbors…mostly hers if I’m being completely honest…
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