Reel Geek

Say what you will about the boredom of Nebraska, but it certainly can be pretty at times.

This shot was taken at sunrise while on I-80 going to the Omaha airport.

Update 02/07/10
The above picture was pretty much untouched, which is what I generally like. I try and get the end result to look as close to what I remember seeing from the viewfinder. Sometimes though I do like to have a bit of a play in Photoshop plus you’ve already seen some of my geeking out with HDR. Honestly I don’t know PS as well as I probably should. But meh.

The 2nd version is what CS4 did to the dng when I allowed it to auto white balance. I’m usually pretty good about setting the white balance correctly, but it’s saved me a couple of times when moving from sunlight to shade (or when the sun + clouds do it for me). This time it wasn’t saving my ass, but doing something a bit odd to the picture. Still pretty though.

Braving the cold and rain/sleet/snow/whatever it was to take pictures seems rather silly now. Especially since most of the shots I took were out of focus from the wind and my shivering. They were of ice on trees and plants which is difficult to focus on anyways, but the blizzard conditions kept knocking things out of focus.

Sometimes I’m really good about posting new pictures and other times I’m just not. This is one of the latter.

Last summer I visited my nieces and nephew and took far too many pictures. I processed a few of my favourites to put up on the walls and saved the rest for later. I’ll get to the rest at some point.