It took us 5 hours to cover 30 miles on Hwy 20 !
First in St. Anthony, we found this amazing artist-mason-extraordinaire working on the restoration of his old inn. Then there was an estate sale along the highway in Ashton that was filled with tons of treasures and junk alike. We came home with some old wooden skiis, two typewriters (1920s and 1940s) for $10 each. We also bought an entire box of all 45 rpm records from the 50s and that was our entertainment for an entire night. We looked them up online to see if they were worth something. We found that the ones with the original jackets would bring about $20. So paying $10 for the whole box was not bad. Then this guy on his awesome bike was headed up to Yellowstone to pan for gold. It is amazing what you can find to photograph along the highway near your home town. Especially if you live near in the Upper Valley of East Idaho.
Hello Photomatix… Move over, Dynamic Photo
I used a combination of Camera Raw and Photomatix to edit these images. I shot them with my new Nikon D7000 and my Nikon 18-200mm lens.
These are awesome! I’m dying to know what technique you used to create that illustrated effect. Are you willing to share your secret!?
PS – happy to see you made it to WordPress 😉 I hope life finds you well.
It is great to hear from my former TA! For the technique I used on the St. Anthony images, it was a combination of Photoshop masks, HDR with Photomatix Pro and Camera Raw. I put my camera on a tripod and bracketed six different exposures. Then I blended them together to get the variety of exposures in all areas of the image. I tonemapped this in Phototmatix (you can get a plugin for Photoshop) and then masked some of the effect out in Photoshop when I thought it was overdone. Finally, I tweaked it in camera raw. On some of them, I used more Camera Raw and less HDR tonemapping
I have developed a new three credit course called Comm 370 Digital Imaging and we do a week on Camera Raw techniques and one week on HDR. I like to combine them both and them mask the best parts in Photoshop. Fun stuff, huh?
I am taking a group of 18 students to Photoshop World, September 5-10 in Las Vegas. PSW has changed a lot since I last attended. At least half of the workshops are devoted strictly to photography… which is awesome and so inspiring. Some of the best photographers in the world, plus the original Photoshop, InDesign, and Dreamweaver experts too. You should go sometime. You end up with endless ideas and new things to try. Kristen Newby Larsen was one of my TAs the past two semesters and we went to the PSW in Orlando last Spring. It was so ridiculously fun I could hardly stand it. Since then I have really been into light painting.
st. anthony is FULL of photo ops! that’s where we took our engagement photos.