January 2012 Desktop Wallpaper
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Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great 2011 and I’m wishing you the best in 2012. I’m really looking forward to this year and the photos that I’ll be able to share with you all and of course, the wallpaper will keep on coming! For the first wallpaper of the new year, I went with a slight design modification to help you better see the calendar portion. I had some feedback that the lettering was hard to read, so I added a low opacity box behind it. I hope that clears it up and makes it a little more useful!
This is the Surf City Pier in Surf City, NC. I hope it’s able to bring a little warmth to those of you who will soon be getting into the coldest part of winter this month!
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Underbelly | Surf City, North Carolina
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I recently took a day trip to Wilmington, NC and back up the coast with a friend, Joe Sadlo of Silverstream Photography. We stopped off at a couple of beaches including this one, at Surf City. The Surf City Pier is one of the more narrow ocean piers that I’ve been to and judging by the broken off pillars sticking out of the sand, it’s been through a little hurricane damage over the years.
If you couldn’t tell by the amount of them I shoot, piers are one of my favorite things to shoot in HDR. I used my 8mm lens for this one and the extreme wide angle really makes this pier look like it goes on forever! The purple sunset sky was really nice on this cloudy evening and I wanted to really be sure not to screw up the sky. I did a lot of layer masking to retain the detail and realism there.
The Shot: Nikon D90, 8mm Rokinon lens. Tripod held, remote fired. 3 exposures, merged in Photomatix, tonemapped file masked with the 3 original exposures in Photoshop. A little touch of Nik Color Efex Pro and an Unsharp Mask to finish.
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‘Surf City Sunset’ | Surf City, North Carolina
This cloudy sunset was shot with the new 8mm lens (which if you haven’t picked up on yet, I love). The lens really makes the Surf City Pier elongate and appear to just fade off into the horizon. I think the real star of this shot though are the linear components. I love how the contrails in the sky almost perfectly run parallel with the pier and both they and the pier seem to disappear at the same point.
Also, I haven’t said much about it, but I’m currently (like, quite literally right now) working on my book, ‘Sky Chasing, vol. 1’ This image is going to be the cover! I really hope to have it finished within the next day or two. I’ll keep everyone posted though. Thanks for all the support and patience.
The shot: Nikon D90, Rokinon 8mm lens, tripod held and remote fired. 3 exposures, tonemapped in Photomatix and manually masked back with the 3 original exposures. Finished with Nik Viveza and a slight Glamour Glow filter in Nik Color Efex Pro.
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