Hopewell

Here's an interesting shot I took at Hopewell Furnace a few days back. For those who aren't from around here (the Philadelphia area), it's a historic village where they used to forge iron. The whole thing was powered by this giant waterwheel. I shot this handheld at ISO 1600, so the quality wasn't great, but it's kind of hard to carry around a tripod when it's raining out (thank goodness for large raincoats to cover camera bags!).

The usual adjustments: some curves, added saturation in yellows and greens, and gaussian blur overlays in "soft light" mode.

A Day at the Ballpark Part II

More pics...

A Day at the Ballpark

Well as a birthday present, I got to go to the Phils new ballpark today for a game. It was awesome... the stadium is gorgeous, the weather was great, and the Phils actually won! ;-P I sorted through the 150 or so pics I took, and interestingly enough, the best ones weren't of the game. Most were people shots looking around the park, mostly children. I'll post these for now, with some more baseball-oriented shots to come.

Usual post-processing: some curves, and Gaussian blurs in 'soft light' and 'overlay' modes.

Oops

Ok, so there's one more that I got to work. I like this shot, except for the sign posted squarely on the tree. Took a bit of fiddling in Photoshop to bring out the colors the way I saw it, but I think it turned out nicely.

A later return...

On the way home today I spotted this nice field. The light was fantastic, but alas I didn't have the time to shoot it as much as I would have liked. Out of eight shots or so, this is the only one that came out. If you look in the bottom left, you'll see a lone dead tree that I'm hoping to return to shoot at a closer distance.