Coiled Conduit

I've been doing a lot of HDR work lately and one of my favorite places to

go is an old abandoned mine. Thanks for the visit.

GORGEOUS PROFILE PHOTO!!!!! You do clean up well, Susie :~) Oh, and this image is wonderful too! I simply love what hdr can do to the details and colors. I need to go junking again. Heck, I should start at the shop. I just ordered the dirt cheap canon 50mm 1.8 to play with. You always inspire me!

Oh Kim, I don't think the portrait is a good representation of who I am, it just looks "cheesey" to me, I usually look more "scruffy" than that. This is one of the images that I recently submitted to COLOR for their Single Image Competition. I think my favorite subjects are junk and old homesteads. Come on Spring.....

Not cheesy, sexy! Scruffy is just how we spend most of our time:)

This rusty grimey metal; you've splendidly captured the hardworking life this object has endured; awesome capture of the worn detail. I luv these sorts of objects in your portfolio; wood, metal, bricks. Strong captures of these materials that help me understand why you like my "Metro" picture so much. I hope you shoot like crazy at that mine! dp

Thanks Donna, I do shoot a lot up at the mine and will be posting more images from there. I've taken a couple of my close PN friends up there too, Kim might have posted an image from there and you'd like Shawn Shawhan's images from the mine. I'm looking forward to some new posts from you.

I read with interest your comments on Shawn's pipe photo in reference to HDR. I have already expressed my reservations with the process but in the hands of someone like yourself who uses the power judiciously and for the good of all mankind, I have to say the results are impressive. These coiled conduits look like they're about to spring to life any moment. (Best not to get too close.)

Thanks Jack, my creative journey with HDR has been an interesting one. I taught myself how to do the technique by watching a video and then I developed my own style, I'm quite taken with the "look", but at College where I've been attending (you can teach an old dog new tricks) one of my instructors actually asked me to help teach HDR so I became a tutor, one of my other instructors absolutely does NOT like HDR and he and I had some interesting discussions about it. It seems there's not much middle ground when it comes to HDR, people either like it or hate it, but I assure you it's here to stay. A lot of professional landscape photographers are using it to capture detail in the highlights and shadows, although I've not had too many successful landscape images yet. I like the "illustrative" look, but HDR's not all I'm doing....still doing some traditional work and lately I've been experimenting with a Holga camera, now that's interesting. I've been "away" from PN for so long I need to research the forums and see if there's been some discussion about HDR. I'll post a few more eventually and test the waters.