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Fort Sheridan Shoreline at Sunrise
Last July, I picked myself up out of bed at 4:30am, in order to make it to Fort Sheridan and photograph the sunrise over Lake Michigan. This was my first serious attempt to capture a landscape at sunrise, and only the second time I had ever been to Fort Sheridan, so I really didn’t have a shooting location planned out. I was going to be winging it, and choosing my shooting locations as I came across them. However, having wonderful “golden hour” sunrise light, and a truly beautiful shoreline at Fort Sheridan made finding locations and scenes fairly easy. About the only thing I could complain about was the heat and humidity…even at 5:45am, it was already 81º, with what felt like 1000% humidity. Not exactly idea conditions for hiking about a mile down to the lakeshore with a bag of camera gear and a tripod.
The end results were well worth it though…a series of very nice landscape photographs of Fort Sheridan and the Lake Michigan shoreline at sunrise.
March 22, 2012
Categories: Landscapes, Photography | Tags: Fort Sheridan, HDR, Lake Michigan, LCFPD, Summer, Sunrise
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Hipstamatic / Americana Lens / Blanko Freedom13 Film / No Flash
Another snowy commute. I do not mean that to sound as though I am complaining, it has only been our third measurable snowfall in Chicago this year…and by far the prettiest.
Photograph taken with Hipstamatic. Americana Lens. Blanko Freedom13 Film. No Flash.
February 24, 2012
Categories: iPhoneography, Photography | Tags: Hipstamatic, iPhone, iPhoneography, Snow, Winter
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Hipstamatic / John S Lens / Blanko Film / No Flash
It has been a strange winter here in Chicago. After so-called experts predicted Chicago would have one of the worst winters on record, the mercury has barely dropped below freezing as we pass mid-January, and we’ve received exactly one measurable snowfall…of about four inches. That snowfall promptly melted, as temperatures then climbed into the forties, and we received two-days worth of rain immediately afterward. Today, we are receiving our second measurable snowfall of the season, of which we are projected to get about six-inches.
So on my ride home, I took the opportunity to shoot some photos of the weather, snowfall, and traffic with Hipstamatic for iPhone. My favorite turned out to be the black-and-white photo above, of my snowy commute as I follow another car down the road. For more photos, hit the jump to see a small gallery.
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January 20, 2012
Categories: iPhoneography, Photography | Tags: Hipstamatic, iPhone, iPhoneography, Snow, Winter
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Carson being camera shy with "Papa"
Almost a year after Instagram was released, I decided to download the app and give it a try. After posting a few photos, I think I get it.
For me, Instagram is just a fun, great way to share photos. With Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. integration, they have made it brain-dead simple to share photos across these platforms. I am not the biggest fan of the retro filters that seem to evoke the Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid cameras, but I do like a few of them. In the right instance, Instagram’s filters can definitely give a photo an added retro-something.
In the two weeks that I’ve been using Instagram, the above photograph is my favorite. Taken over the Thanksgiving weekend, my son decided he was going to be camera shy, but I managed to trick him into peeking out from behind his hands to get the shot. Add in the Instagram Earlybird filter and border, and I love this retro-analogue inspired photo.
December 06, 2011
Categories: iPhoneography, Photography | Tags: Instagram, iPhone, iPhoneography
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I shot this photo over a year ago at Arlington Park Race Track, and just revisited it the other day. Initially, I did nothing with this shot, as I was underwhelmed by it and just did not see much of anything in the shot. Fast forward about a year, and as I was looking through old photos, I saw a different crop, and thought that passing the RAW image through Photomatix to create an HDR image could be something.
The image below is the result, and I really like the outcome…the magnificent horses frozen in stride, the lush greens of the grasses and the ominous storm clouds rolling in just put a nice feel on this photograph. Four race horses, one with about a length-and-a-half lead, frozen in time as they head out of the last turn at Arlington Park Racetrack toward the finish line, while rather dramatic and ominious storm clouds roll in.
It’s pretty neat to see both the white-gray horse and the reddish-brown horse in the background with all four feet off the ground, especially when you consider the lengths that Eadweard Muybridge had to go to in 1878 to prove horses had four feet off the ground when at trot.
July 15, 2011
Categories: Photography, Sport | Tags: Arlington Park, HDR, Horses, Photography
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