Jason Hermann Photograpgy – Blog

I took these last Sunday with Michele   I love this spot and shoot here atleast a few times a year.  The cool thing about this area is the water level constantly fluctuates, giving us the viewer different compositions all the time.

I used the Canon 24-105 f/4 L  and the 5D Mark II for all of these images.  I also shot at f/16 to get a nice depth of field and shutter speed combo.  These images are also HDR composites made up of 3 exposure’s -2, 0, and +2.

Fallsburgh Falls, NY

Fallsburgh Falls, NY

Jay

Michele brought these home a few days ago from Flowers By Miss Abagail located in Rock Hill, NY   Gorgeous to say the least and Natural window light was the pat I chose for these images.  I also used a 25MM extension tube on the EF 24-105 f/4 L and Canon 5D mark II.  I set the flowers up on the kitchen table next to the sliding glass doors and then placed my tripod on the table as low as it would go    Then I got really close switched to manual focusing and fired a few frames.  Editing wise, these raw file photos were only adjusted in Adobe Lightroom then exported as jpeg.  I did a little contrast, white balance, sharpening, and vignette in lightroom.

f/4 @ 1/8th sec, 95mm, ISO 200, Highlight tone priority (enabled)

f/4 @ 1/13th sec, 105mm, ISO 400, Highlight tone priority (enabled)

f/4 @ 1/10th sec, 105mm, ISO 400, Highlight tone priority (enabled)

I took this HDR photograph yesterday as I was driving through Walden NY.   The snow melt is at it’s peak and the water is raging!!  I wanted to get this shot last year, but it just didn’t work out   This year though I got it   I used the Canon 5D mark II and the 24-105 f/4L.  The camera was set to f/18 which is higher than I normally go, but I wanted to slow the shutter speed enough to get a nice blur effect on the water.  The best way to do that is by using a neutral density filter to fool the camera eye into thinking it’s darker out, but that was in my car and up a treacherous climb I just came down   f/18 will do the job!  I took 3 exposures at -2, 0, +2 and here is the result.

Walden NY - Rapids

Here is a link to Bing maps Birds eye view of the Dam.  I’m not sure if it still puts out power, but it seems like it might

Walden, NY

I was driving home from work yesterday and the clouds were absolutely amazing!!   Some of the coolest clouds I’ve ever seen that I can recall.  I tried to make this look exactly like what I saw, so I had to add a bunch of contrast to the image in Adobe Lightroom. Just look at these clouds!  It almost looks like there going to drip right out of the sky or something

I used the 5D mark II and the Canon EF 135 f/2 L @ f/8, 1/320sec, ISO 100

Cloudscape

I took this a few weeks ago with Michele’s Canon EF 100-400 L IS. It was freezing out, but the golden light was looking good in the early am.

I shot this Hand Held with the Canon 5D mark II, 200mm ISO 400, f/5 @ 1600sec

Grazing