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Washington Monument at Sunrise

Washington Monument HDR - ©TimeLine Media

Frozen Reflecting Pool

We have traded the cold for rain! With this in mind, I have not been able to get out there to make more photos in the early morning. Overall, it has been too overcast and rainy to get me out there. I should have made the effort, however, I am backed up with other work . Additionally, I would need to gear up with rain repellent gear for me and the cameras. Needless to say, I got lazy this week. There is still a backlog of other images that I have not posted about on the blog. These are images of the Washington Monument at sunrise from the reflecting pool that is situated at the front of the Lincoln Memorial.

Washington Monument - out of camera exposure - ©TimeLine Media
Washington Monument – out of camera exposure – ©TimeLine Media

Washington Monument

This is one of the images taken straight out of the camera. In this case, I took a bracketed series of photos around this exposure to combine into an HDR final image. From this file, you can make edits right in Lightroom to bump up the Exposure, Shadows and contrast, then adjust the vibrance to make this image:

Washington Monument - out of camera adjusted exposure - ©TimeLine Media
Washington Monument – out of camera adjusted exposure – ©TimeLine Media

HDR image

I was surprise to see how much data you can pull from one Raw file! Processing the 9 different exposures into HDR Efex Pro 2, I adjusted the sliders in that program to get something similar. My goal was to bring out more detail in the monument face and trees lining the pool on either side since those areas were so dark.

Washington Monument HDR - ©TimeLine Media
Washington Monument HDR – ©TimeLine Media

When editing in HDR Efex Pro 2, I was able to use control points to directly edit the face of the monument. Sunrise is not the best time to photograph the Washington Monument from this angle. It loses a lot of the luster and shine with the backlight from the rising sun. I tried to pick HDR treatments where I could bring back the light color of the monument bricks. I already have some places in mind that are situated better in the early morning light to photograph next. If you have any suggestions, please let me know! Stay tuned-

Washington Monument HDR - ©TimeLine Media
Washington Monument HDR – ©TimeLine Media

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Big Expiration Day on Monday!

Baltimore Dancesport Championships - ©TimeLine Media

Dance Photography

This upcoming Monday, there are 9 past 2013 events that will be removed from the proofing website. It has been fun to go through these old events to find some exciting images to post onto the blog! I meant to come back to these images sooner, but had so many other photos to share throughout the year, that I did not find a slot for these until now. If you want to see the expiration dates and events, please visit the proofing site here:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Champisonships - ©TimeLine Media
USA Dance Mid-Atlantic Championships – ©TimeLine Media
Marsha Bonet Showcase - ©TimeLine Media
Marsha Bonet Showcase – ©TimeLine Media

It has been great to have so many photos to share, and lots of content to write about in these posts. Writing it down in this format has made me more accountable as a professional photographer. It has given me a push to keep shooting photos, to keep improving each time I make images, and importantly, to give me a concrete goal to work for every day.

Proofing Site Expiration

Baltimore Dancesport Championships - ©TimeLine Media
Baltimore DanceSport Championships – ©TimeLine Media
Marsha Bonet Showcase - ©TimeLine Media
Marsha Bonet Showcase – ©TimeLine Media

Undoubtedly writing the blog has made me a better editor! I try to limit the amount of photos in each post. I could just throw up 10 images in each post and write a few sentences. There are a few blogs that I follow in which this is the case, so I wanted to do something different. Also, limit the amount of photos so that only the very best are featured. That is one of the secrets of pro photographers – if you only show the best of the best, it makes it seem like EVERY photo you take is amazing! The also helps me to home in on the best images when I’m shooting, so there is not a huge number of unusable photos that need to be edited after the event.

Salsa Bachata Throwdown - ©TimeLine MediaSalsa Bachata Throwdown - ©TimeLine Media
Salsa Bachata Throwdown – ©TimeLine Media

I think there is progress from doing this blog so far, and I already have a list of ideas that I want to do this year with my photography. Some will be done at events, and some I will have to schedule outside of these. It will be interesting to see a few months from now how many of these I will complete! Again, visit the proofing site before the expiration of events.

Baltimore Dancesport Championships - ©TimeLine Media
Baltimore Dancesport Championships – ©TimeLine Media

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Cold DC Photos

Lincoln Memorial - HDR image at a cold sunrise - ©TimeLine Media

Washington, DC

No, I have not gone out in this crazy cold weather to take more photos at sunrise! There has been an itch in the back of my mind since I know that not too many people will be out there, and the skies have been really clear in the mornings. However, the logical side of my brain won saying not to risk it with this record cold out there. Also, I do not have the proper gear to get out there and make images without getting frost bite! But I did make some nice ones after the Korean War Memorial walk through that I posted about earlier. When I started to walk back towards the car from that area, I saw this right behind me:

Lincoln Memorial at sunrise - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial at sunrise – ©TimeLine Media

Cold Sunrise

I have already made so many images of the Lincoln Memorial, but this amazing monument that is colored pink in the breaking sunrise was too good to pass up. I did not go into the memorial, as this was not what was in the best light. With the sun very low on the horizon, the pink was hitting the structure that was built up higher first. I moved as quickly as I could into position without slipping on the frozen ground to make more photos.

Lincoln Memorial at sunrise - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial at sunrise – ©TimeLine Media

The images above are just about straight out of the camera using the Vivid camera calibration from my Nikon. This last image was from an HDR of 9 bracketed exposures. I did not go too crazy with the post-processing. I just wanted punch up a little of the saturation in the sky while keeping the detail and sharpness of the building. Trying to do this on a single exposure was too difficult to balance correctly without making the masking or selection look like a mess. The HDR processing was a much faster way to get where I wanted to go!

Lincoln Memorial - HDR image at a cold sunrise - ©TimeLine Media
Lincoln Memorial – HDR image at a cold sunrise – ©TimeLine Media

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