Category Archives: Travel

Ridin’ the Rails with Shorty Backlog – Vol. 3

This concludes the photos of the few hours I spent with Shorty on the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad back in July.


Riding the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

Ridin' the Rails with Shorty

I have many influences on my photography. It ranges from other artists to movies to television shows to friends to family. However, one of the most obscure influences on my photography is a book I was given as a child called simply TRAINS. I still have that book. It is a little worse for the wear and Karma chewed up the binding 15 years ago or so. I still crack it out and look through it now and again.

That is a little peek into my methodology.

Agua. Por Dios.

I’ve always had an affinity for water towers. Sometimes I like to photograph them.


Luther Water Tower

Captured this one in Luther on a foggy December morning.


PARTICULARS

CAMERA: SONY SLT-A65V
ISO: 100
FOCAL LENGTH: 20mm
APERTURE: f/9
EXPOSURE: 1/400
DATE: 12-24-2016 – 12:44
LATITUDE: 41.96779°
LONGITUDE: -93.82169°
PHOTO ASSISTANT: The Master Playlist
PHOTO EDITING SOUNDTRACK: “Surrey with the Fringe on Top” by Miles Davis Quintet from the album STEAMIN’ WITH THE MILES DAVIS QUINTET.

The Canvas Wall

The 9 Emotions Project Wall is no more. The 9 16×20 photos are gone. Technically they are stacked in the guest bedroom until I figure out what I’m going to do them.

I’ve replaced them with 9 16×20 canvases to diversify the pictures on my wall and I have this theory that they will be easier to dust. Or at least easier to put out the lie that I dust.

These are the 9 new photos you will see the next time you come visit the Photography 139 Studio:


Canvas No. 1

Canvas No. 2

Canvas No. 3

Canvas No. 4

Canvas No. 5

Canvas No. 6

Canvas No. 7

Canvas No. 8

Canvas No. 9

Right now the 20×30 9 Emotion picture is still up, but that is going to come down sometime soon. I just need to figure out if I’m going to use that space for a giant canvas, or if I’m going to break that spot up with a few more 16x20s. I guess we’ll see what the future holds.

Silver Efex Pro 2 Volume 1

I thought now would be a good time to take another look at a filter from the Nik Plugin Collection. This time, we will look at the default filters in the Silver Efex Pro 2 collection. There are 38 of them, so I’ll split this into 2 posts.

The Silver Efex Pro 2 filter is a quick, easy, and powerful way to convert any image into black & white with a myriad of options.

Here is the first batch.


Original Image
Original Image

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - NEUTRAL
Neutral

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - UNDEREXPOSED
Underexposed

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - OVEREXPOSED
Overexposed

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - HIGH CONTRAST HARSH
High Contrast Harsh

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - HIGH CONTRAST SMOOTH
High Contrast Smooth

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 = HIGH STRUCTURE HARSH
High Structure Harsh

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - HIGH STRUCTURE SMOOTH
High Structure Smooth

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - HIGH KEY 1
High Key 1

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - HIGH KEY 2
High Key 2

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - LOW KEY 1
Low Key 1

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - LOW KEY 2
Low Key 2

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - PUSH PROCESS 1
Push Process 1

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - PUSH PROCESS 2
Push Process 2

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - FULL DYNAMIC HARSH
Full Dynamic Harsh

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - FULL DYNAMIC SMOOTH
Full Dynamic Smooth

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - FULL SPECTRUM INVERSE
Full Spectrum Inverse

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - FULL SPECTRUM
Full Spectrum

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - GRAD NV 1
Grad NV 1

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - GRAD 2
Grad NV 2

SILVER EFEX PRO 2 - FINE ART

Fine Art

It is the same subject, with the same composition, but each filter suggest a slightly different emotion. Will look at the rest of the filters soon.