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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The continuing rain and generally poor weather have given me the opportunity to workout the right side of my brain and explore my creative muses. As a result, the images that I’ll be posting over the coming days will be taking a distinct turn away from my usual landscape images. This image is obviously an acoustic guitar. Beyond that, it is an experiment in curves, lighting and post-processing. I shot this in natural, indoor light against...

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On my way across Mount Rogers Sunday morning I couldn’t help be notice the number of bare tree trunks that dotted the landscape. Most are either dead or dying and have obvious signs of lightning strikes. I didn’t think much of them on the way up but on my way back down the cloud cover had began to darken and made them stand out quite a bit more against the sky. I stopped at a spot surrounded by several of these trees to grab a...

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This black and white image is of a rusted hydroelectric turbine on display at Boone Dam in Northeast Tennessee. The turbine sits atop the observation area overlooking Boone Lake and the dam constructed as part of the TVA river system. The tight crop was used to highlight the subject and remove unwanted background elements. The image was processed using Lightroom 3 with tonemapping performed in Photomatix 4. Camera settings: Canon Rebel XS,...

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Closeup of the decorative iron gate surrounding the Virginia Creeper locomotive in Abingdon, Virginia. I made this photograph late Sunday afternoon as the day was drawing to a close. It was actually inspired by a similar, uncredited image posted in a local deli. Shot info: Canon Rebel XS, ISO200, 30mm, f/4.5,...

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