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Messing around with Photomatix and some Auto Exposure Bracketing.  I know this is way over cooked, but I tend to like over saturated in some cases.  It’s definitely not for everyone.

I took this on a mid summer day just before a rain.  Canon XTI 100mm macro f2.8 1/640

We out last week while the wife and kids were at Kings Island.  This is only about 5 miles from my house. You easily forget how close you are to the country living in Hilliard.  This is 5 miles west, and Downtown Columbus is 10 miles east.

I drove around for about 2 hours and finally found a suitable scene.  I took about 75 shots of this area at different Apertures and exposures.  Once I got home I discovered that I have a great deal of dust on my sensor.

Here is the shot:

Here is a link to a free high res wallpaper 1900×1200

Some of my shots had very dark spots in them.   When looking at the aperture, the worst offenders were at f/22.   I did some research online, and begged for help on the fredmiranda.com forums because I initially thought that this may have been dust in the lens. Obviously there are hundreds of useful sites helping you clean this so I won’t even bother getting into it.

Another shot from the boat.  There wasn’t a whole lot of traffic on the lake that day.

Thanksgiving Fishing Trip For Some Strangers

This was taken last month sometime.  One of those shots I vaguely remember taking.  I needed some filler for this new theme I am using and figured the B&W Conversion would work good. Anyway, here you go:

Shooting back at me

Paxton’s “Maw-Maw” gave him a little gift around Christmas, because she had heard that Santa was looking at getting him a digital camera for being a good boy last year.  He ended up with a Nikon CoolPix P1 in black.  8MP point and shoot with wifi and a lot more.  Not to shabby for his first camera eh?

Well, that wouldn’t stop him from lusting after his Grandmother’s Canon XTi..  I guess he get’s it honest, because I want one as well!