From a snowy Easter weekend
Last weekend, my girlfriend and I traveled to northwest PA and northeast Ohio to visit some family over Easter weekend. Within an hour of our arrival Friday night, it began to snow. Since I hadn’t really taken any snow photos this year, I eagerly got up around 5AM Saturday morning to photograph the freshly-fallen six inches. Major thanks to both my girlfriend and her stepmother for volunteering to accompany me, even though it was extremely windy and cold.
The first image was taken at about 6AM of Buhl Lake in Sharon, PA. It’s mostly composed of one image (shot at ISO100, f/8, and 25sec exposure) though I did overlay a darker version in order to turn down the blown-out lamps and darken the edges of the photo. There was very little color in the scenery but, if you click the photo and view the larger version, you’ll see I was able to preserve some of the color behind and slightly above the trees.
The second image is a high dynamic range photo I took across the border in Ohio. I did the HDR conversion because I really wanted to bring out the red barn door and contrast it with the white snow in the background:
I have quite a few more photos from the weekend that I am still processing.
In the meantime, though, both of the photos above are available for purchase in my photo gallery.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Nice shots Shawn, Great composition on the morning lake shot, and I like what you did with it to keep the pixels in check -
March 26th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Thanks Mike!