Salmon Log
In yesterday’s picture there was a man standing still for a long time – this is what he was looking at, and I think, photographing.
I started off photographing here, but it was very busy and I felt crowded and conspicuous so moved upstream. When I came back pretty much everyone was gone and the light was lower, allowing more flexibility with the exposures. Low enought that I could use my 24mm lens since my nuetral density filter does not fit on it.
Canon 5Dii, Nikkor-N pre-ai 24mm/f2.8 lens, ISO100, ~f-16, 6 brackets each , top ranging from 1 to 20 seconds, bottom from 1/6th to 4 seconds.
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burnt embers 
You have completely mastered HDR. These shots are absolutely realistic and subtle in their nature and processing, Ehpem. Lovely, lovely work. What interesting subjects to have, as well, all the details and textures really come out in your pieces here.
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Thanks Toad – that is really something to hear from you, Mr. HDR and all. It is fun to give this technique a whirl, but I am already thinking I need to ease off and be simpler. Soon. Takes less time, etc.
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It’s a tool, not a destination my friend! I have enjoyed conversing with you on the subject and watching your work roll out of your studio. Personally I never get hung up on processes used to create artwork as long as the artwork is great… as all of yours is! HDR or not-HDR, I will be a lifelong fan of your blog and photographs.
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Thanks so much. I like the technical aspects and learning how to make something work in different ways. But I am finding it is both taking lots of time (computer is not hot enough for some of this processing) and filling up my computer too. Depending on which method I use to generate the HDR image, I can end up with a 100meg tiff.
That actually is a real downside of the Lightroom4 plug-in for photomatix – it does not give you an option as to file type and the 32bit files it generates are enormous. The other downside of the plug-in is that it does not give an option to manually deal with ghosting. Between those two problems I would not use the plugin very much, except it does a better job getting that natural look than I have mastered in photomatix so far.
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These are really gorgeous shots.
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Thank you so much!
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Very powerful photos, Ehpem.
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Thank you Lynn!
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Excellent composition in that last image…your eye wandering out into the water.
A sort of ‘circle of life’ sense to this. Very meditative.
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Thank you Karen. I like that composition better. I really should have lead with that image, but the bright streak on the right was a little bit off putting and I opted for detail instead.
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Even though this cyclical business is about renewal, there is, beside the drama of it, a great sadness about this massive ending. The second photo supports this feeling of mine very well. Love what the slow shutter speed does.
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Good morning Joseph – thank you for your thoughtful words. I agree with you about the sadness aspect.
Perhaps this is part of the reason that for years we used to go here with the kids, along with another family and their kids, for an early morning coleman stove breakfast of pancakes and sausages every remembrance day. It seemed like a suitable place, and a bit after we were done the local First Nations would arrive to fish and also to observe remembrance. They would sing and drum and someone in dance costume would take swordfern wreaths out into the river and set them free. We have not done this for a few years – the kids got that resistant age – but I expect that the same event will be going on down there tomorrow.
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I was actually thinking I might like to go this year. Let me know if you want to, maybe we can go out in the morning?
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Hi littleislander… I will call about this.
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That is a respectful way to commemorate and those must be good memories.
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