HD-R-Not

Hey all, I was a bad blogger yesterday, sorry. It was the first day we had been home together with our son for a while and the day just slipped by. A bunch of traveling and some time in Columbus at work so yesterday was a whole lot of nothing. In a good way. We relaxed and had a good day.

Speaking of Columbus, I was able to bring my gear to work with me and was finally able to get out and shoot. It wasn't until the night before I was to head home but it was an interesting time. Suffice it to say it was a wet experience.

There is this little creek that runs through Gahanna Ohio and I headed down there towards the early part of dusk when there was still plenty of light. Leaving the 5D2 and home I had my 40D with a few lenses. This was a good area for ducks so I was shooting the EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS with the 1.4 teleconverter to get a little more reach. That was working a little too good so I stowed the teleconverter. Later as in the image above I used the EF 24-105 f/4L IS lens to do the majority of shooting.

I titled this post HD-R-Not because the image above R-Not an HDR. But it could be. The set up was the same as shooting HDR. Tri-pod with multiple images at varying exposure settings. In this case I was shooting in aperture priority and simply made adjustments to the exposure compensation by 2/3 stop increments. The how I blended the images will be covered in a later post as I deleted the original psd file by mistake (I hate that when that happens!) so I must recreate it this week some time as I want to send it off for a print.

Anyhow I had pretty much finished and was packing things up when I felt a couple of drops of moisture. It was not white so it must have been rain. Then there was a crack of lightning and the sky opened up and I was in a deluge of water. Evelyn later thought it quite funny that a pilot got caught in the rain. I assured here that at that moment I was not a pilot but a photographer.

The Tenba bag was a trooper as I pulled the rain cover out and got it in place before things got too out of hand. The Enduro tri-pod was not going to have any problems. So the only ting that was wet was yours me to the bone by the time I got back to the car which was about a quarter mile away. I did learn something from that experience though. That is if at all possible I will leave the tri-pod legs extended and wipe them down before I collapse them. They tended to gurgle when I extended them. Kind of like when you go through a car wash and the windows are dry and you roll them down only to see them wet again.

Great fun though and a nice image for my efforts.

Take care... Doug