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Working It, Lake Sam Rayburn TX That’s me working my composition during sunset. I’ve been posting so many photos of Nini lately I was starting to feel left out! And since she loves to see photos of me too, this is a mini-gift to my beautiful wife on Valentine’s Day! Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! This is a single 15 second exposure. It’s rare that I’d be moving my composition around when the colors are erupting like this. Usually I prefer to set up my composition and just wait for the colors. But this sunset was giving me trouble because the puffy clouds on the left of the frame were moving out and the wispy clouds were moving in. My composition was being ruined by what looked like dark spots on the left side of the horizon because only those last few puffs of the puffy cloud were in the frame. You can judge my final composition for yourself HERE. CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today with Jen Rozenbaum and workshop titled “Building a Successful Boudoir Business.” Check it out FOR FREE 24hrs a day for the next three days at www.creativeLIVE.com/live1 Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 14, 2013, taken February 2, 2013
Blue Hour Reflections, Lake Sam Rayburn TX The high water at Lake Sam Rayburn makes for some beautiful reflecting pools. I tried several different compositions, but this one was kept catching my eye as I scrolled through my recent photos. I hope you like it! A previous photo of this sunset can be seen here. This is a single four minute exposure with no filters. The clouds were moving right at us and I really wanted to capture some cloud movement. This was the last photo I took before hiking back to the car in the dark. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 11, 2013, taken January 21, 2013
Colorful Sunset, Lake Sam Rayburn TX A colorful sunset on our favorite beach. Hopefully we’ll be there again this weekend to have an anniversary picnic. Today is our actual anniversary and we’re celebrating with friends tonight. Tomorrow we are giving each other our anniversary gift. Nini is getting an hour and a half massage, hair and makeup at a local salon. I’m getting a photoshoot with my wife! Then we’ll go out to dinner. It should be a fun anniversary for the both of us. Thanks for all of your anniversary wishes yesterday! CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today for the third day with wedding master photographer Marcus Bell. Catch the FREE re-watch all night long if you miss the live version. I actually like the re-watches better because they cut out the breaks. www.creativeLIVE.com/live UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this is a three exposure HDR. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 8, 2013, taken January 21, 2013
The View, Lake Sam Rayburn TX The view from the camera that is featured in my photo from yesterday. The colors erupted after sundown as these wispy clouds moved across the horizon to cover the area where the sun had just went down. It was a very unique sunset for sure. This is a single 30 second exposure. I used a three-stop soft-step graduated ND filter and a two-stop soft-step graduated ND filter to reduce the exposure above the foreground. Critiques are always welcome. UPDATE: CreativeLIVE is live and FREE with wedding photography master Marcus Bell. The FREE re-watch just started. Visit www.creativelive.com/live often over the next three days to get a free education from one of the world's best. Daily photo: February 6, 2013, taken February 2, 2013
Front Row Seat, Lake Sam Rayburn TX We were back at Lake Sam Rayburn last weekend and were witness to a very unique sunset. The puffy clouds started to move out and the wispy clouds on the right side of the frame started to move in. The sun actually set in between these two different types of clouds and it made for a weird looking composition that I didn’t really like too much. But I got some very cool time lapses of the clouds moving across the horizon. This is a single 10 second exposure taken with my 7D on a tripod. The other camera is my 5D Mark II with a couple of graduated filters on the lens (I bought the camera used and it came with a set of 7 filters). The little square on the tip top is a three-way level mounted into the hotshoe on my wireless tranceiver, which is mounted into the hotshoe on the camera. The tripod is a Bogen 3036 and the ball head says Mod 168. Both are very heavy duty and together weigh probably 15 pounds. I bought the tripod with head for about $100.00 on craigslist. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 5, 2013, taken February 2, 2013
Reflections, Lake Sam Rayburn TX The aftermath of a very pretty sunset. The clouds rolled in fast just before sunset and here you can see they started to dissipate soon after. On the way to the lake that day I was telling Nini that we’d probably end up with no clouds, no sunset and head home early! Every shoot is an adventure and that’s why I always say that you never know if there is going to be a good sunset or sunrise unless you’re there. This is a single 15 second exposure. I used a circular polarizer to increase the glare on the water, bringing out the reflection. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 3, 2013, taken January 25, 2013
Testing the Waters, Lake Sam Rayburn As far as we can tell, Sala doesn’t really like the water very much. He’s got short hair and it’s January so I think he’s just too cold. Maybe when it starts to get hot and the water warms up he’ll be more interested. By the way, it’s fun to play “guess Sala’s breed” if you haven’t already. We love hearing your ideas since he’s such a crazy concoction and we’ve heard so many different guesses in the few months we’ve had him. How often do you capture video with your camera? I’ve started to take more and more video footage after watching several DSLR-video workshops on CreativeLIVE recently. After I’ve collected a decent amount of footage I’ll make a short 2-minute video. I might also add in some short time-lapses and stop motion sequences of the dogs running and what not. I think it will be a fun project to try. It won’t be fancy, I’m going to edit it in iMovie. What do you think? Critiques are always welcome. UPDATE: If you haven't joined the Smugmug Daily Community on Facebook yet, you can find the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SmugMugDailyPhotosCommunity/ It's a little easier to have a conversation and share information on FB. I think you can add yourself to the group or friend someone in the group and we'll get you added. Daily photo: January 31, 2013, taken January 18, 2013
Cloudy Colored Sunset, Lake Sam Rayburn TX We’ve been getting pretty lucky with sunsets out at Lake Sam Rayburn recently. Two out of the last three trips have had nice sunsets. This photo is from our most recent trip. There were very few clouds in the sky when we left the house a couple of hours before sunset. Then all of a sudden these clouds rolled in about a half hour before sunset. I got a really cool time lapse out of it, but I’m a long way from processing it. This is a single 1 second exposure. I used a three-stop soft-step graduated ND filter and a two-stop soft-step graduated ND filter to reduce the exposure above the foreground. Critiques are always welcome. In fact, my dog Sala has already given a pretty rude critique of my foreground, as you can see in this previous photo. Daily photo: January 30, 2013, taken January 25, 2013
Blue and Yellow, Lake Sam Rayburn TX Back at our favorite beach in East Texas. This is the nice part of the beach where Nini sits and reads her kindle while I play around in the mud near the swampy side of the beach. It almost looks like sand in this photo, but the surface is actually these weird little clay pebbles that are very soft and squishy. It is a really amazing texture that I love to walk on barefoot. This is a three exposure HDR. This is the first HDR I’ve posted in ages! I almost felt a little rusty processing it! This photo reminds me that there are great shots to get before the sunset reaches its peak colors. Lately I’ve been setting up one camera on the tripod with my primary composition that doesn’t change much as the night goes on, and then shooting handheld or on another tripod with a second camera that I move around and try other compositions. This photo is from the second camera. I noticed someone going by the name of “God” left me a harsh comment on my last beach photo here. I don’t get why people leave comments like this. In a way it’s flattering that my photo is having such a strong emotional impact on someone, whether good or bad! Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: January 25, 2013, taken January 21, 2013
Colorful Sunset, Lake Sam Rayburn TX

A colorful sunset on our favorite beach. Hopefully we’ll be there again this weekend to have an anniversary picnic. Today is our actual anniversary and we’re celebrating with friends tonight. Tomorrow we are giving each other our anniversary gift. Nini is getting an hour and a half massage, hair and makeup at a local salon. I’m getting a photoshoot with my wife! Then we’ll go out to dinner. It should be a fun anniversary for the both of us. Thanks for all of your anniversary wishes yesterday!

CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today for the third day with wedding master photographer Marcus Bell. Catch the FREE re-watch all night long if you miss the live version. I actually like the re-watches better because they cut out the breaks. http://www.creativeLIVE.com/live

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this is a three exposure HDR.

Critiques are always welcome.

Daily photo: February 8, 2013, taken January 21, 2013
Colorful Sunset, Lake Sam Rayburn TX A colorful sunset on our favorite beach. Hopefully we’ll be there again this weekend to have an anniversary picnic. Today is our actual anniversary and we’re celebrating with friends tonight. Tomorrow we are giving each other our anniversary gift. Nini is getting an hour and a half massage, hair and makeup at a local salon. I’m getting a photoshoot with my wife! Then we’ll go out to dinner. It should be a fun anniversary for the both of us. Thanks for all of your anniversary wishes yesterday! CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today for the third day with wedding master photographer Marcus Bell. Catch the FREE re-watch all night long if you miss the live version. I actually like the re-watches better because they cut out the breaks. www.creativeLIVE.com/live UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this is a three exposure HDR. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: February 8, 2013, taken January 21, 2013
Colorful Sunset, Lake Sam Rayburn TX

A colorful sunset on our favorite beach. Hopefully we’ll be there again this weekend to have an anniversary picnic. Today is our actual anniversary and we’re celebrating with friends tonight. Tomorrow we are giving each other our anniversary gift. Nini is getting an hour and a half massage, hair and makeup at a local salon. I’m getting a photoshoot with my wife! Then we’ll go out to dinner. It should be a fun anniversary for the both of us. Thanks for all of your anniversary wishes yesterday!

CreativeLIVE is live and FREE today for the third day with wedding master photographer Marcus Bell. Catch the FREE re-watch all night long if you miss the live version. I actually like the re-watches better because they cut out the breaks. http://www.creativeLIVE.com/live

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this is a three exposure HDR.

Critiques are always welcome.

Daily photo: February 8, 2013, taken January 21, 2013
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