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Denver Capital Building

greggl — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:58:52 +0000

Back in late October, I participated in the Colby Brown Photowalk in downtown Denver. Colby is a local travel and landscape photographer here in DEnver and I’ve followed him in various social media outlets for a few years now. So when he decided to host a photowalk, I eagerly signed up if not just for the networking opportunities.

We began the walk at City Park, behind the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Denver Zoo, walking westward towards the Capital building. This being October, the trees in City Park were spectacular.

Denver Photowalk 20111023 019-20-21 HDR

Denver Photowalk 20111023 082-3-4 HDR

Denver Photowalk 20111023 121-2-3 HDR

Downtown Denver was busy with people going wherever they need to be going on a Sunday afternoon. With the Occupy Denver protestors (patrol cars, looky-lou’s and hecklers) and the lower-downtown (LoDo) tourists, it was hard to get anything to stay still long enough for any camera exposure.

Denver Photowalk 20111023 255-6-7 HDR

Our walk ultimately ended up at the Capital building, amongst the Occupy Denver protestors hanging out in the quad behind us (in between the Capital building and the City and County building to the west.) And over the course of these couple miles, nothing really caught my eye — I wanted to really get to the Capital building and try out some HDR photography techniques with the waning sunset light on the building itself, so I was a little antsy to get to the end, I guess.

Denver Photowalk 20111023 243-4-5 HDR

Denver Photowalk 20111023 297-8-9 HDR

And finally, after the sun had set and the “glow” of the sun on the copper dome had faded, I had to try processing one final shot of the capital building in Black and White.

Denver Photowalk 20111023 327-8-9 HDR BW

What do you think of these images? Too “HDR-ie” or natural enough that it doesn’t bother you to learn they were shot and processed as HDR images?

Finally, the journey turned out to be a great walk and something Colby will conduct again this year. It was free to join and very fun to shoot and mingle with a lot of excellent photographers. I highly recommend this event this year. Check out the link above to Colby’s web site for announcements and dates of the next photowalk. I hear Roxborough Park might be on the agenda this time.

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Steamboat Sunset

greggl — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:41 +0000

Here’s a couple more images from my long weekend in Steamboat Springs back in early December. Steve Parker and I watched and waited for this sunset as it progressed from “good” to “outstanding”, but when we finally got out to shoot it, the wind had whipped up to add to the frigid temperatures already. I think the wind chill made for a chilly -5 degrees.

Both of these images are 3-shot HDRs, processed in Photomatix Pro.

Steamboat 20111204 545-6-7 HDR

Steamboat 20111204 563-4-5 HDR

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Catamount Barn

greggl — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:25:12 +0000

Here’s something I’m working on from a recent family trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

The Catamount Barn is under historical classification and is protected by, I think, the forestry service. It sits near the southeast end of Catamount Lake, below the West descent of Rabbit Ears Pass, tucked back in the corner on a private drive. This image is a 3-shot HDR processed with Photomatix Pro.

Catamount Barn 185_6_7 HDR

More to come from this trip as I get time to process, refine and post.

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Kebler Pass HDR

greggl — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:40 +0000

I know, it’s been awhile since my last post here, but things have been really busy! That’s both good and bad, but part of the business was spent photographing my favorite time of the year! So…

My family and I spent the weekend in a great, secluded cabin about an hour southwest of Gunnison, Colorado about two weeks ago now, with some very good friends. And I figured that since I was that close to Crested Butte, Kebler Pass and Ohio Creek Road, I just had to break away and go see what they’re up to this fine fall-colored time of the year!

Arriving at Kebler Pass, we found the Aspens about 2 weeks away from peaking in their golden glory, but we did arrive at a beautiful sunset over the area! So, no epic Aspen gold, but nevertheless, Colorado beauty! Seeing the contrasty situation up on this ridge line, I shot most of the 15 minutes in HDR-mode: three shots, -2EV, 0EV, +2EV and combined them in Photoshop CS5 or Photomatix Pro (I am feeling the need to purchase Photomatix Pro 4.1 now! Got any good discount codes for me?)

Here’s one HDR image from that trip, processed in Photomatix Pro.

Oso Creek 1027_8_9 hdr

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Point Reyes

greggl — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:13 +0000

I’m finally getting around to processing the several hundreds of images from my trip to San Francisco back in early June. During that business trip, a couple of friends and I took a day trip away from work and the City, venturing out onto Point Reyes and Tomalas Bay.

An old Navy "taxi" we were told about.

While we were shooting this old boat, we saw an old sea dog walking around with another person. We overheard bits of what he was talking about, and soon started asking questions. We learned that this boat was an old Navy “taxi” for taking sailors from the big Navy ships in to harbor for onshore adventures. The second tidbit was that after it was retired and the boat became somewhat a fishing boat, the entire second “level” was added to gain height needed for spotting fish.

Pretty cool little boat with a storied past!

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