– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Delaplane Delaplane is a small rural community in Fauquier County, Virginia. The village came into being after the building of the Manassas Gap Railroad in 1852. Construction of the railroad began the previous year at the junction of the existing Orange and Alexandria Railroad at what became known as Manassas Junction. The railroad headed west towards Front Royal, through the Manassas Gap in the...
– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Erosion as Art I have been reading Rick Sammon’s book “Creative Visualization for Photographers”. This book is not a technique guide in the standard form. It is designed to help the photographer produce better images through ideas that may lead to better vision. Basically, the aim is to give you a better eye for an image and then post-processing it to elevate the result from a snapshot to a great...
– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Railroad Baggage Carts A couple of weeks ago we revisited the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad in Cumberland, Maryland. Whilst I was waiting for the steam locomotive to arrive I wandered around the historic depot. No matter the main attraction that takes you to something like a tourist train station, it is always worth taking some time to slowly explore the surroundings. As I was walking along...
– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Model A Ford 4-Door Convertible In the last post we took a look at creating a reasonable facsimile of the historic era represented by the preserved Western Maryland Scenic Railroad’s Baldwin Consolidation 2-8-0 Locomotive. In that particular image patience was required to achieve the desired result. Today we see the how pure luck can also play a key role in finding and creating a great image...
– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Isaiah Davenport House The Isaiah Davenport House is a historic house in Savannah, Georgia. It is located on the northwest corner of Columbia Square, one of six additional squares added to the original Oglethorpe Plan in the late 1790s. This federal-style home was built in 1820 by Isaiah Davenport for his growing household as well as a means of showing his considerable building skills. Details of...
Savannah Triptych My intent with the Forsythe Park image was to create a triptych print. I processed over 20 images using the preset as a starting point but could never find two more to complement the original. I created a template in the print module in Lightroom into which I was able to try various combinations of the processed images. No matter which combination I...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Forsythe Park Savannah I wanted to create a timeless image representative of wonderful Historic District of Savannah which I recently visited. The live oaks with their branches covered in spanish moss seemed the perfect place to start. It turned out though that I could not pick just one. I ended up with a...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – 1941 Ford Super Delux Woody Station Wagon Car shows are always great fun and provide lots of opportunities for making images. This shot was from my local show in Old Town Fairfax, Virginia. The 1947 Packard in the HDR Portfolio was taken at the same show. Because Nikon cameras only have a single exposure...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – The idea behind this effect was to produce a series of images which looked like they were from the Victorian era – a very weak color which may have been originally black and white but then hand-tinted. These images were not the ultra sharp images we see today. As this was to be a series of images not a...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – I was reading the three part series of eBooks “The Magic of Black & White” by Andrew S. Gibson which I had purchased from David DuChemin’s Craft & Vision store. In Part II Andrew show some different effects obtained by using the Gradient Map in Photoshop. His recommendation for architecture shots was a...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – HDR has become a very popular processing technique. It brings life into shots which could otherwise be quite flat and boring. As you will see from my gear list I use both Photomatix Pro and Nik HDR Efex Pro in my HDR processing. However, this particular image has not been processed through either HDR...
Learn MoreThis was the first image I ever sold, a full page spread in the Spring 1998 edition of France Magazine in their then regular section for single photographs titled “Villes et Villages” (Towns and Villages). I had submitted a few photographs before to numerous magazines but this was one of the only ones which published photographs that were not illustrative of an article....
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