Photo by Colleen Malley 10/18/08
Image 7111. Pentax K10D with a Sigma Macro 17-70mm lens. Shot single exposure Aperture Priority f/5.6 at 1/800sec, ISO 100, mirror lock-up with 2 sec timer. Editing in Photoshop to include use of Levels, slight cropping and increased Saturation +13
Photo by Colleen Malley 10/18/08
Image 7255. Pentax K10D with a Pentax-DA 50-200 mm lens. Single shot exposure, Aperture Priority f/16 at .6sec, ISO 200, mirror lock-up with 2 sec timer. Increased Saturation slightly using Photoshop.
Photo by Tom Malinski 10/18/08
Image 6715 (the base pool area is a unique perspective of the upper main Kent Waterfalls) shot 10 sec @ f16 with 28mm lens, made from three images processed as a 32bit HDR image then converted back to 16bit image. Notice the woods in the background are well lit with very littler under exposed detail. Even the green moss on the right side of the falls is pretty well lit, while the water falls are bright with detail (not blown out). This would be very difficult to do with one image exposure. Also, notice the entire scene especially the pool water has very little reflection because I dialed it out with my polarizer. This was just my choice to do, a reflection on the surface of the water would have looked good also.
Photo by Tom Malinski 10/18/08
Image 6704 (three cascading water falls) shot 10 sec @ f16 with 28mm lens, made from three images with exposures blended into one 16bit image using Photoshop Smart layers and Stacking Mode set to mean to blend the exposures. I'm not crazy about the composition of this shot, but the results of the exposure blending is good so I wanted to show you this. Also, notice the small pools of water have very little reflection, you can see thru to the bottom because I dialed most of the reflection out with my polarizer.
Photo by Tom Malinski 10/18/08
Image 6766 (Housatonic River with the Cornwall Covered Bridge in the background) shot 1/8 sec @ f18 with 16mm lens, Image made from three images processed as a 32bit HDR image, then I applied a little tonal mapping and then converted back to 16bit image. With this process I can pull amazing detail out of the sky. No fake stuff here, just tonality adjustments to the cloud detail that was already there. The HDR processing did a nice job on the foreground rocks and water exposures. Notice the polarizer removed a lot of the reflection in the foreground water, you can see the rocky bottom. Also the sky in the background is richened from the polarizer
Photo by Tom Malinski 10/18/08
Image 6780 (closer image of the Cornwall Covered Bridge) shot 1/4 sec @ f22 with 180mm macro lens, This is a single image exposure with a polarizer. I took this from the same spot as image 6766. The water color is natural, I added a little saturation to the red bridge. Notice how the image is compressed. there is a good distance from the foreground rocks to the bridge. By the way, most macro lens's make excellent general purpose or short telephoto lens such as my Canon 180 macro used here.
Photo by Tom Malinski 10/18/08
Image 6688 (little church off of Rout 7 just before Kent Falls) shot 30 sec @ f11 with 28mm lens. A bonus shot on my way to the Workshop. I spotted this church illuminated by one streetlight on my way to Kent Falls. It was about 6:00am still pretty dark. The color version (not shown) is nice with the warm orange glow of the streetlight, but I thought this B&W was better.
Photo by John Scott 10/18/08
HDR of Kent Falls. Shutter priority, 2 second exposure, ISO 200, mirror up to cut vibration, 5 exposures @ 1 stop apart and reduced saturation on the greens
Photo by Tom Wootton 10/18/08
Photo by Tom Wootton 10/18/08
Photo by Irma Wootton 10/18/08