This is a different perspective on the same structure that I posted in Overflow a few days ago. With a little trial and error I was finally able to line up the direction of the clouds with the angle of the pylon. Other than a massive amount of spot removal (the wind was blowing dust everywhere) processing was pretty straightforward, after a few adjustments in Lightroom I passed the frame through Topaz Black and White Effects then Denoise....

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This is an image that I shot a few weekends ago at South Holston Lake. The tower is actually a ‘head-on’ view of one of the enormous pylons that surround the overflow intake adjoining South Holston Dam. The entire structure is massive and is surrounded by a 10-foot fence topped with barbed wire and signs warning of a 250-foot drop to the bottom. The base of the intake is probably 15-feet high and there are at least six of these...

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This weekend was marked by heavy cloud cover in our area which made for some great daytime shooting. What made it better, for me anyway, was the high winds that set in on Sunday afternoon. After spending the morning shooting streams in the mountains I decided to close out the day with some long exposure shooting by the lake. I’ve had a shot like this in mind since I bought my filter kit several months ago but the right circumstances of...

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This is the last in a set of guitar images that I posted last week. For this image, the guitar body was shot against a black backdrop with a single speedlite. I masked the black background to solid black in Photoshop before sending it to PhotoTools for some styling. I used the Blur Tool in Photoshop to soften the edge of the guitar body against the background and sent it back to Lightroom for a few final tweaks. Hope everyone has a great...

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Today’s image is the headstock of the guitar we’ve seen all week. This was taken against a black background with a white diffuser panel placed at camera right to filter the natural lighting. I held a 5-n-1 reflector above the guitar with the black side down to flag any stray light and create a deeper shadow along the top right of the image. This took a few tries and I finally resorted to using the 10 second shutter timer so I had...

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