TGI Thursday February 16, 2012

Posted by Dave Updegraff on February 16, 2012
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A boat by the river

Today is my Friday.   I’m taking a day off tomorrow for some personal business and that will also give me a 4 day weekend!!  Monday of course is Presidents’ Day and the Federal Reserve is closed.  When they are closed, most banks are closed.  🙂

Anyway I digress.  Well actually I guess I haven’t even started.  On my birthday I spent a good part of the day shooting images.  I drove a lot of miles and looked at a lot of things but my main focus was capturing images of eagles.  I didn’t have much luck with that so here are some of the other images from that day.

The image above was taken on the Wisconsin side of the river over by the fishing barge near the lock and dam number 11.  This vantage point allows the opportunity to get close to the water if eagles happen to be fishing (which they were not on this day.)

One of the flood gates at Lock and Dam # 11

This was also the first time I had taken the new Sigma 50 -500 mm lens out for shooting.  Up to this point it had preformed well.  Although the first image in this post was taken with the 28 – 300 mm lens the one above is with the Sigma.

It was later in the day when I noticed the first glitch with the auto focus of the lens.  But for the first couple of hours it did a good job.
Fishing boats waiting

I tried the above image in color and it looked okay but it just kept saying to me that it needed to be in black and white.    The area where these images were made is a little difficult to get to in a car.  Especially when the ground is a little soft like it was on this day.   The two times I’ve been over there I’ve only seen 4 wheel drive vehicles.

Well, that’s it for today.  After I finish my appointments tomorrow morning I have 3.5 days to shoot images.  Hope the weather cooperates.  I might have to run down to LD #14 sometime over the next 4 days if the eagles are still there to test out the replacement lens.

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your Friday  um I mean Thursday.  🙂  Be careful.

One comment on “TGI Thursday February 16, 2012”

  1. Hi Dave,
    Have you read Ansel Adams book “The Negative”? Your B&W’s have good subject matter (excuse me, great subject matter) but often need increased contrast (without loss of detail). Get into the zone (Ansel has a zone ranking system for shadows and highlights).
    In college, we would learn about B&W by doing charcoal drawings. One day, while delicately adding some shading, my instructor came over, grabbed the darkest charcoal stick I had, and furiously applied it with as much pressure as possible to my shading. The teacher was right however, the picture had more depth and interest after that.
    Your three boats is a great picture and you made the perfect decision to desaturate the image (the cropping is fantastic too). But it is too washed out as is, and the boats lose otherwise interesting detail.
    Keep up the great work and as always, I have enjoyed another one of your blogs.
    Dana

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