Golden Ears Walk

Probably my favorite pic from a walk Friday out to Golden Ears park. This is a panorama stitched together with PTGui, which really did an incredible job, considering of the 4 images the person and dog (our friend Jesse and her dog Cheech) were in motion. Obviously a bunch of photoshopping involved, mostly in the conversion to black and white, playing with saturation and clarity settings. I just remembered I had a "Ansel Adams B&W" action from one of my Photoshop books that I should throw against this one and see what happens.

Cloudy View

Random shot from a photowalk with some friends out to Heritage Park out in Mission. B&W'd after some HDR treatment via Lightroom. Enjoy!

As a random aside, did you know that in lightroom you could double click on the histogram in develop mode to reset that area? Just like any other setting I realize, but I had no idea you could double-click to reset on the histogram itself. Cool!

Couple more shots taken at the Native Indian school that is next to the park.

My only regret about the last picture is the dog and my buddy's girlfriend behind him. Would have been a better/more powerful shot with just him and the totem. Ah well, next time I'll know :)

Squamish Chief Teaser

Just a quick teaser until I finish the images from my walkaround in Squamish today. Got lots of potentially usable shots from Shannon Falls as well as a couple of other locations. Weather wasn't great, mostly grey and "bleah" (the technical term) and raining for a fair amount of the time. The mood can be helped in some of the shots with a black and white conversion and a bit of high-contrast "Ansel Adams"-y treatment.

I have to say that the K20D is a monster in the file size department! Some of the panoramas I'm stitching together are 400mb .psd files! I've had to reduce some as Lightroom will only accept 10,000 x 10,000 as the maximum size for importing as well. It's glorious to know that I could zoom to 1:1 and see amazing detail in the rocks and trees.

Anyway, I hope to finish off some more processing tomorrow and shall post more then.