01.06.14 iPhone Challenge-Nashville Artic Weather.-Web

January 6, 2014 iPhone Challenge – Shooting in the Arctic

01.06.14 iPhone Challenge-Nashville Artic Weather.-Web

Well, that’s what if felt like today anyway, the arctic that is. I hope today’s picture gives that feeling perhaps.

I went to Nashville today to pick up my niece Chrystal who was returning from a Christmas visit to her son, Brad and his family, in Colorado.

This being the first day of the Arctic Vortex that has brought extreme cold further south than it has in a very long time I decided to head to Music City early so I would have some time to shoot some “Urban Landscapes” for a “film” challenge I’m doing this year also. (Those challenge pictures will be posted the end of end of each month.)

I’ve been to Nashville a lot over the years, but today my sister, April, and I wandered around areas that I’ve not been to before as I was looking for things that said “Urban Landscape” to me. That’s also where this photo creation came from.

It’s a scene along the river just down from the Titan’s Stadium and with the temperature being 7 degrees at that time, not counting the chill factor, I really didn’t spend a lot of time shooting this scene on my iPhone as I couldn’t wear my gloves and operated the touch screen very well. It’s on a dock that runs along the river under a walk bridge and the wind was whipping off the water pretty good so I shot about two frames of this scene.

I kinda had the idea of processing the image the same way as yesterday’s image and was really interested in how the sun and clouds were going to turn out. I’m pretty happy with the end results.

I used the native camera, an App called Painteresque and another called Snapseed, all to produce what you see here.

01.01.13 Out of the Camera-Elaina

January 5, 2014 – 52 Week Challenge – Straight out of the Camera

01.01.13 Out of the Camera-Elaina
January 1, 2014 – 52 Week Photo Challenge – This first weeks challenge theme was “Straight out of the Camera” – It’s said that what you do on the first day of the year is a good indication of what you’ll be doing the rest of the year, so I had to start it off shooting pictures of one of my great-greats. This is Elaina who is always gracious to allow me to take her picture, hope it stays that way as she gets older. The challenge this week was to shoot the picture and post it, not to do any “tweaking” in Photoshop or any other program. The only thing I’ve done is to re-size the full image for the web and add my watermark.Shot as a RAW file with my Nikon D800 at 1/60 @ f/8 at ISO 4,000 with a Nikon 50mm f/1.4 lens.