HDR

Bar Detail | 5.25 @ 12.31 | f/3.5 | Shutter Speed: 1/40 | Canon Powershot

Color Room | 5.25 @1.19 | f/3.5 | Shutter Speed: 1/80 | Canon Powershot

Flower in Fence | 6.11 @ 1.31 | Mesa Falls | f/8.0 | Shutter Speed: 1/60 | Canon Powershot

Taylor | 6.6 @ 3.51 | BYU-I | f/8.0 | Shutter Speed: 1/800 | Canon Powershot

Edit: Fine Art Template

Taylor | 6.6.11 @ 3.51 | Rexburg (BYU-I campus) | f/8 | Shutter Speed: 1/500 | Canon Powershot SX120 IS | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 8.2mm | no flash

I was walking with the Kimball in mind, but I saw these gorgeous clouds behind the Taylor building. Thankfully, I had my camera, so I started taking pictures. When I saw this one, I was curious to see what I could do with it in my shiny new HDR program. I took it in and boosted the contrast majorly. Then I took any blue out of the sky to make the clouds seem that much more ominous. As far as putting it into the Fine Art Template, I had a few good chuckles with this, but I finally went with basically exactly how the book says to do it. I went with a black background because I think that it sets off my image beautifully.

Techno-Town | 6.3.11 @ 8.45pm | Rexburg, ID | f/4.3 | Shutter Speed: 1/320 | Canon Powershot SX120IS | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 55.9mm | no flash

Can I begin by telling you how much I LOVE this image? I was strolling around Rexburg looking for things to take pictures of when I caught sight of this in the distance. It was so amazingly awesome that I took a picture, although I was not sure if I liked how the picture came out initially. But then I saw it with filters in mind... one smart object conversion and then cut out and poster edges filters later, I had an image that I considered drooling over. I had to create another template to capture more of the length of the image... but that was fine with me. I loved it so very much... Then I dropped it into my newly made template and smiled a whole lot. 

Bannack Best

Colored Lights || 5.25.11 @ 3.37 | Bannack Ghost Town | f/3.5 | Shutter Speed: 1/6sec | Canon Powershot | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 6.0mm | no flash

Mourning Cup || 5.25.11 @ 6.43pm | Bannack Ghost Town | f/4.0 | Shutter Speed: 1/1600sec | Canon Powershot | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 38.9 | no flash

Wagon Wheels Still Rumble On || 5.25. 11 @ 2.53pm | Bannack Ghost Town | f/3.5 | Shutter Speed: 1/160 | Canon Powershot | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 20.1 | no flash 

In the Window || 5.25. 11 @ 3.01 | Bannack Ghost Town | f/4.0 | Shutter Speed: 1/320 | Canon Powershot | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 22.4 | no flash

Stairs to Heaven [or not] || 5.25.11 @ 4.14pm | Bannack Ghost Town | f/3.2 | Shutter Speed: 1/13sec | Canon Powershot | ISO 200 | Focal Length: 6.7mm | no flash

The first image, I edited in HDR (which is actually fairly obvious because of the banner-y thing). It was fun to adjust the colors and brightness. For picture two, I merely used a small aperture to blur the background and then focused on the cup things which blurred the background. I kind of like that it looks like the girl in the back is mourning. It was not planned at all, but ah well. Black and white filter adjusting the contrast, and I liked the wagon. It was a nifty angle (and I had tried several). For the sepia, I had to adjust. I found some instructions online that did not really help at all, so I fiddled with the hue/saturation until I got it figured. On the plus side, I now know basically how to sepia a picture. The last image I really, really liked. I spent forever, it seemed, getting those angles right and getting a shot of the staircases that were what I wanted. I came back with this image. In Photoshop I added a little contrast, brightness, and vibrance. It just looks super sweet to me!

Cabinet | 5.25 @ 4.23 | Bannack | f/2.3 | Shutter Speed: 1/80 | Canon Powershot

Podium | 5.25 @ 3.28 | Bannack | f/4.0 | Shutter Speed: 1/30 | Canon Powershot

Heart Door | 5.25 @ 5.48 | Bannack | f/3.5 | Shutter Speed: 1/50 | Canon Powershot