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Today we turn the other way from Cowboys Stadium to capture a bit of a different scene. These are a few shots that I took on our Sunday night in Arlington shooting with Cliff Baise (who you can see in the lower left portion of the above shot as well as the screen on his D700), who was great to meet and shoot with. In and around Richard Greene Linear Park that separates the Ballpark where the Rangers play and Cowboys Stadium there are a whole bunch of these cool sculptures, called the Caelum Moor Sculptures, and we dedicated in 2008 as a part of the redevelopment of the Johnson Creek corridor and the building of Cowboys Stadium (history lessons are now over for the day). I have a few more shots to post of the various pieces of art, but today I’ll just share the one that was actually in the water.
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Not having a tripod made the nighttime photography I did a little bit more difficult. There was a lot of propping the camera up on my bag, raising the lens with anything I had, including my phone, wallet and my wife’s purse. That being said, I was a little limited on composition, but I still really like how these came out. It was a little windy the night we were shooting and you can see the clouds just streaking across the sky.
These were both processed fairly similar. They are six exposure HDRs processed with Photomatix and edited in CS5. Cloned out a few dust spot and for the first one tonemapped the +1 image of Cliff and masked it in. I had one where he is a bit more still, but I thought that the motion blur went well with the sky. I also masked in a piece of the -1 exposure to recover some of the blown out lights in the background. Then I added Dreamland, Arkham, Turbo Boost and Dark Contrast filters in onOne PhotoTools before finishing up with Nik Software’s Dfine for noise reduction. A little straightening and that’s all she wrote.
T hanks for stopping by today folks, I’ll catch you all tomorrow.
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Cool image Dave with the motion in the clouds. Always a challenge without a tripod but well done despite the lack of one.
Len Saltiel recently posted..Early Morning Sentry
Awesome Dave. It is always a challenge without a tripod to fall abck on. Way to et creative!
Adam Allegro recently posted..Silver Efex Pro Magic Fix
Very cool images Dave. The streaking clouds look great.
Steven Perlmutter recently posted..Wastin’ Time
nicely done Dave I love those clouds!
Jim Nix recently posted..Into the sunset
Wonderful cloud movement. Very dramatic!
Marc Collins recently posted..Dartmoor
The cloud motion really adds to these images Dave. I’m amazed you were able to handhold and get these. Well done sir.
Chris Frailey recently posted..Early Morning
Great images Dave. Perfect title too as it does seem the clouds are in a hurry to get to the finish line. You shot these without a tripod? Well done.
Edith Levy recently posted..The Glass Ceiling
That’s cool, really like that sky.
Really strong sense of motion, especially on the first one. It’s been fun watching you go through your Dallas shots.
Mark Garbowski recently posted..Life Runs At People
You did a great job with these, Dave. Love the look of motion, particularly the clouds. Awesome shots!
Jimi Jones recently posted..Esskay Meat Products
Completely awesome images Dave, the motion in the clouds is just incredible!
Curt Fleenor recently posted..To The Last
Love the clouds Dave. The whole scene is so atmospheric. I really like the processing walkthrough
Chris Maskell recently posted..Sunset Over Sheppy
I really am diggin the second one Dave
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