We spent a long weekend in Ogunquit, Maine this past weekend. The purpose of our trip was to photograph a wedding (keep an eye out on OBrienPhoto.net for those wedding photos!). We made a long weekend out of the trip and spent our spare time wandering around the coast. We headed to York, Maine on our way home to check out the Nubble Lighthouse. I scaled the rocks a bit and set up very low to the water to capture this shot. I love how it came out. I think the water and the lighthouse balance each other nicely.
I know I’ve been MIA for a while. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve been working with Kate on our wedding photography business, OBrienPhoto.net. Things have been going great and I finally have some down time to post some images of my own.
In starting up this business, I’ve learned real quick how to use Lightroom. I have been a Photoshop user for years, so making the switch to something else was a huge learning curve. I’ve been rocking Lightroom for about 6 months now and all I can do is speak highly of it. I don’t know why I didn’t switch years ago! I love the cataloging and all the neat little tricks it offers to quickly edit the image. I was going through my Lightroom catalog from earlier this year and came across this image above. I decided to edit it in a way that I don’t normally edit images. But what the hell – why not!?
This is from a January 2011 UrbEx trip to the Belchertown School For The Feeble Minded. This place is just creepy. Every aspect of this campus is just dirty and creepy. It. Is. Awesome! The image above was taken as the sun was setting over the infirmary. I love the warmth the sun created as it sets over the cold snow and meek boarded up hospital. It’s a sort of an eery contrast.
With the ease of Lightroom I have edited a bunch more images that I’ll be sure to post in the near future!
This is a shot I took while in Orange Country, CA on business. We came across these huge buildings. Come to find out it was the old Marine Corps Air Station Tustin – which I think is being torn down and turned into a Lowes/Target/Wal-Mart lot with condo’s in the back.
The Blimps were used during WWII to find Japanese subs in the Pacific Ocean. Cool piece of history. I think they’re keeping the hangars though. I believe they’re some sort of national historic landmark now since they’re the tallest building made of wood without columns.
Anyways, hope you enjoy this panorama!
by Pat on January 4, 2010
Took a photo at work today of the sun setting. This technique is called HDR or High Dynamic Range, which takes 3 photographs and merges them together so the photo has even exposure. This technique is especially helpful when shooting into the sun, and/or shooting high contrast areas.
You can click on the photo for larger sizes, and more detail.
by Pat on January 1, 2010
Happy New Year! I’m going to start 2010 off with a small contest. The rules are below – it’s really simple, just follow me on Twitter, and then retweet the phrase below to enter the contest. The winner will be picked at random and they’ll have the opportunity to win an 8×10 print from any image in my Portfolio gallery at www.obrienstudios.com.
Thanks everyone, the contest is now over! Please follow me on Twitter for future contests!
Today’s picture is from Vermont taken during this past foliage season. We usually do annual road trips to Vermont to do some leaf peeping. So while we were driving around the back roads on our 2009 road trip we came across this barn. This one snuck up on us from behind some trees, so once I saw it we pulled over and ended up having to reverse down the road! Good thing Vermont’s back roads hardly have any traffic on them!
