Tag Archives: HDR

The Empty Pier

April 20, 2012 Gage Caudell 1 Comment

Re-post July 2011

Last year when traveling to the Outer Banks in North Carolina I was able to get a lot of good pics. One morning I decided to get up and drive to the Avon Pier. I walked around the pier trying to find the best place to setup for some great sunrise shots. I initially was standing up on a mountain of sand hoping it would give me a great vantage point but as soon as I could setup, the owner of the pier came out yelling at me telling me to get off. She explained that they are there to help protect their structures during hurricanes, and they cost a lot of money. After I told her what I was doing she was then nice enough to allow me to go up on the pier for few pictures. Here is one of those pics.

Barns, Landscape, Rangefinder, Time Lapse

Old Grey Barn

April 18, 2012 Gage Caudell 1 Comment

Re-post August 2011

Keeping it short today. Couple weeks ago when I was driving around Bluffton, Indiana I came across this old grey barn. Again, it was in the middle of the day which does not make for good shooting but I put my 3.0 ND filter on my 21mm lens and shot 7 exposures to create an HDR pic. I think it turned out well? I really like the movement of the clouds.

Abstract, B & W, HDR, Landscape, Leica M9, Railroads, Travel

The Iron Skeleton

March 4, 2012 Gage Caudell 1 Comment

Repost from July 2011

My wife and I spent 4 years in Des Moines, IA while I was receiving my degree. The first couple years I was vey busy with my work and never showed much interest in photography. Midway through my second year, my father lost his year long battle with cancer. When he passed I inherited his film dSLR and lenses. Not until later in the year did I finally gain an interest in photography. Initially, I was just taking pictures in the operating room for the physicians I was rotating with. I remember getting many compliments doing this and thought it came somewhat natural. Canon came out with the EOS 20d (you can find the most recent version, Canon EOS 60D here). I remember how excited I was to get this and try out my dads lenses. Since then, I’ve traded, bought, and upgraded from the Canon 20d and his lenses.

Many years have passed since purchasing my first dSLR and I’ve now moved on to Leica M9 rangefinder camera but I still have many good pics that I took. One of those was from a trip back to Des Moines a few years ago. I was driving around Booneville, IA and came across this old railroad bridge. At that time I was starting to show some interest in HDR photography. Below is one of those pics (I also posted it in black and white).

B & W, Barns, HDR, Landscape, Rangefinder

Barn by the Road

February 28, 2012 Gage Caudell 3 Comments

February of this year my wife and I went to Wisconsin to visit my sister and family. We’ve never traveled to Wisconsin and never realized how hilly the landscape is. I didn’t have time to take too many pictures but we were driving around and found this barn only feet from the road. The sun was setting and thought it would be a great picture opportunity. I love the sun rays coming through the branches. Enjoy.

Repost June 2011

HDR, Landscape, Sunset

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

February 26, 2012 Gage Caudell 3 Comments

Last July 4th the family and I vacationed in the Outer Banks. We were always told it had nice beaches and was very family friendly. I have to agree with that assessment. We stayed further down near Avon, NC which is away from the tourist stuff. It was a much more rural area with local shops and restaurants. Typically when we vacation we are on the go trying to see as much as possible but this time our intention was to relax and bathe in the sun. There are definitely picture opportunities and probably one of the more famous areas to take pictures is at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. I was hoping the clouds and sun would cooperate. Fortunately, the sun came out for only a few minutes and I was able to get this shot.

Repost June 2011

Barns, HDR, Landscape, Travel

Barn Door

January 29, 2012 Gage Caudell

The past few weeks I’ve been busy updating my logs so that I can take my boards this year. The next step will be gathering all the chart notes, x-rays, etc… It will be a lot of work but will be well worth it when I’m done.

I’ve posted a picture of this barn before but not from this angle. I really like the texture in the wood.

Here is the link to the previous picture. Also, the previous pictures, “Rustic Barn” was recently posted on Photopeka.

ISO 400 f16 HDR

HDR, Landscape

Falling apart

December 14, 2011 Gage Caudell

I don’t typically post-process pictures like this one but I didn’t have much of a choice. It was a very bright day and even at f/16 I was over exposing all my shots. This is an HDR and then used Color Efex 3 to make additional changes. It turned out fine but don’t expect to win any awards with it.

HDR, Landscape, Rangefinder

Old Truck

November 6, 2011 Gage Caudell

Here is one more picture of the the old truck I posted about yesterday. Definitely needs a new paint job but the look works great for HDR.

HDR, Landscape

Truck 57

November 5, 2011 Gage Caudell

As mentioned in my previous post, I have not had time to update my blog the past week. I’ve been extremely busy with work and have not had the time. I also have not had much time to go out and shoot.

A few weeks ago I did take a few shots of an old truck that sits a few miles from my home. I used HDR for this one, layering 7 exposures on top of one another. It turned out pretty good.

HDR, Landscape, Travel

The Shaded Creek

October 29, 2011 Gage Caudell

Here’s a picture from a few years ago when we were vacationing in Gatlinberg. I can’t count how many times I’ve been there, but every time I enjoy going into all the unique shops.

This picture was taken at a creek in the Smoky Mountains just outside of Gatlinberg. Even though I like the scenery, there’s too much green for vibrant pictures. This one seem to work fine.

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