Upde Designs

As a child did you ever lay on your back in the grass, look up at the sky and clouds, and imagine different clouds looked like different things?  Some of us still do that even though we are no longer a child.  Well at least chronologically.

The first image is actually about 5 minutes after I shot the one below.  I just went outside to see what the weather was like.  It was a wonderful evening with pleasant temperatures.  I looked up in the sky and saw the image below and knew instantly what it was.

Maybe it’s because I’ve wanted lobster for the last few weeks, but it looked to me exactly like a big old lobster making its way across the sky.  Five minutes after I shot this image I looked up and the lobster was gone and a blob was in its place.

Maybe you see something completely different.  I could almost taste the dripping butter.  Okay maybe that’s a bit much.

I had just finished watching a photography lesson featuring the wonderful Jay Maisel (a New York based photographer of some fame.)  He was talking about his philosophy of photography and one of the things he said was he always does a 3 shot bracket of everything he shoots.

So he shoots one shot as metered by the camera and then one shot over exposed from that metering and one shot under.  Your bound to get the right exposure plus you can composite the three images into an HDR image.

The shot above is of my neighbor’s back yard.  They do such a fabulous job of taking care of their back yard I can let mine go to seed and still look out the back door and see something truly beautiful.  🙂

That’s it for today.  Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your day and just ever once in a while look up and see what you can see. 🙂  Be careful.