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Milwaukee Tour

Wisconsin

Thanks for all the responses from the post yesterday. I had some questions on the photos that were taken out of the plane window. The photos that I posted were all from the Fuji X100s. Although you are allowed to use small electronic devices during takeoff and landing, I did not turn on my phone out of habit. So I took the photos with the small mirrorless camera, then cropped the images in Lightroom so that you can see more of the details out of the window without the frame of the plane, the wing or the engines in the way.

Wisconsin from the air - ©TimeLine Media
Wisconsin from the air – ©TimeLine Media

This is only the second time that I have spent any time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My mother always takes a city tour when she goes to a new place, so we decided to give that a try. We found Untapped Tours of Milwaukee through an online search, and made it down to City Hall to meet the tour guide. This was probably the best thing we could have done with our time!

Untapped Tours Milwaukee

Untapped Tours bus - ©TimeLine Media
Untapped Tours bus – ©TimeLine Media

The tour stopped at all the sights around the city. With the foggy, but nice weather, there were a lot of opportunities for photos, but more importantly, we found all the places that we needed to visit later. The tour started at the impressive Milwaukee City Hall. Even though the building was being renovated, the size of the building and the scale of its tower was impressive both inside and out.

Milwaukee City Hall clock tower - ©TimeLine Media
Milwaukee City Hall clock tower – ©TimeLine Media

Since we were on a tour, I did not have a lot of time to setup a photo of the building. I just took out my Fuji X100s, and took a series of photos from bottom to top. My thought was that I would combine the photos later in a vertical panorama in Photoshop.It worked! I had to work on the photo with some adjustments due to the way I shot the original images. After the tour, I also had the chance to take more time and make an HDR image. I’ll post more about that on the next Tech Thursday post.

Milwaukee City Hall - ©TimeLine Media
Milwaukee City Hall – ©TimeLine Media

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Panoramas – Tech Thursday

©TimeLine Media - panoramas from a dSLR

Event Update

Just a quick update on the Paragon Open photos. The editing is completed, and the upload has started at the website. It should not be much longer before they are viewable. The website needs to process the photos – create all the thumbnails for color, black and white previews, and setup all the ordering pages. By this afternoon, all the photos will be available here:

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Fall Photography

Around this part of the Mid-Atlantic, the autumn colors are in full swing. It is a beautiful time to drive and walk in wooded areas with the yellows, reds, and oranges on all the trees just before they fall. It is always difficult to determine when would be the best time to go out to take photos. Unfortunately, our busy schedule did not let us go at the optimal time.

©TimeLine Media - panoramas from the iPhone
©TimeLine Media – panoramas from the iPhone

In the photo above, there were still more green than bright fall colors in the leaves. From the overlooks on Skyline Drive, the panorama feature on your smartphone is one of the best ways to capture the grand views on top of the mountains. The biggest challenge for me is to keep the horizon level straight! I had to crop this photo after capture to straighten the view, but my shaky panning also did not keep the mountain level straight through the frame.

If you have a dSLR with you, the colors will be more saturated, and you can manipulate the RAW files much easier in post. Here is a photo from another overlook made from 3 separate frames. The images were then combined in Adobe Photoshop using the “File: Automate: Photomerge” function. I did not have to input any other information, and the program easily spit out a nice panorama! Having RAW files, you can make sure all the images in your panorama look the same prior to combining them, so it looks like it was snapped in one pull of the shutter.

©TimeLine Media - panoramas from a dSLR
©TimeLine Media – panoramas from a dSLR

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Finishing Events

©TimeLine Media - 2013 Paragon Open - finishing edits

I am finishing edits and upload of the 2013 Paragon Open photos. They will be available to view by tomorrow morning at the latest. Although I was not there in person for the competition, these images were very nicely done! On this occasion I wish I could have seen all the amazing performances in person.

If you are on the mailing list, or you like the TimeLine Media Facebook page, I will post on those two places as soon as they are ready to view. You can get on the mailing list by filling out the form at the bottom of the blog page, or by signing up at the Paragon Open event at the photo proofing site.

©TimeLine Media - 2013 Paragon Open - finishing edits
©TimeLine Media – 2013 Paragon Open – finishing edits

I want to thank Mario Brathwaite, a photography colleague of mine that was able to cover this event for us. He has covered lots of other events with us, and I trust him to get more great images of ballroom dancers when I cannot be there myself. He made some great images from this event, and I am anxious to share them with you! The finishing line is within site, so please bear with me just a little longer.

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