MaineSight » Trees

Winter Wonderland

Paul — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:59:49 +0000

A late, wet, February snow transformed the landscape into a monochrome wonderland. Photographed, processed, and posted from my iPhone 3Gs.

Focus Stacking

Paul — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:26:06 +0000

On a Thanksgiving Day family hike in Brooksville I came upon this bend in the trail and realized while photographing that even at 24mm, I am not not going to get a sharp focus across the image (at least not without a tilt shift lens), so I set up my tripod and cable release and made two exposures; one with focus in the foreground, and the other with focus farther back in the frame.

Once home, I opened the two raw images using PhotoAcute and combined them using the focus stacking feature. This is the first time I’ve used this feature, and it worked remarkably well.

Tamaracks

Paul — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:55:55 +0000

Tamaracks, Durham, Maine. Processed with Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta.

Intimacy

Paul — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:59:39 +0000

I’m always struck by the wonderous green when trees first leaf-out in the spring, but this picture also carries a feeling of deep or original intimacy as the three leaves gently rest against each other as they all grow together from the same branch.