Category: Works

Leaning Aspen in SanteFe New Mexico on October 7, 2009 by Jamie Rood

This is the shot I was after that day. Great fog allowed me to do a lot with the color & depth 🙂

Santa Fe New Mexico, October 7, 2009 by Jamie Rood

IN the Mountains North East Santa Fe between Rio Grande Art festival (Balloon Fiesta) weekends.

Less Mist (left) or More Mist (right)?

Ok, after several requests and finally showing in the area I now have the ‘Dallas’ piece :O

The initial name is ‘Dallas Mist’ cause of course it was raining 😉 And, like to go with the flow usually to bring out what the area was ‘telling me’.

Shot Monday, October 26, 2009 after attending the Huffhines Art Festival in Richardson, Texas (see event post) in the misty rain.

Latest edition to my ‘Cityscapes’ line which now includes Austin, Houston, Chicago, Denver & Dallas. 🙂

The edition size for each of my canvas prints is now set at 100 per size with 3-4 sizes available. Therefore there will be  maximum of 300-400 each image. Custom pieces and smaller sizes will be added to the closest edition size. I will begin to add the edition size on the front of the canvas prints. Clients with existing pieces may contact me to have me add the print number/edition size signed on the front of the canvas.

Matted prints are numbered irregardless of size but remain open edition.

I debuted my new work ‘Gorilla Falls – Contemplating the Journey’ this month in Colorado .

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The head rock of the falls (near the base of the Hanging Lake trail) looks like a gorilla, so named it ‘Gorilla Falls’. The ocean, sky & beach shots were taken at the beginning of my journey at Montauk Point, Long Island New York in May 2009 and the falls in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado near the end in June 2009.

Interpret the scene and the title as you will… 🙂

My gosh it is high resolution – I had to shoot the falls in 11 segments of 6 exposures each to get everything in. I was crouched straddling part of the falls against the rack wall between me and the trail. Even if I could have pulled back to get everything in one shot, I wouldn’t have cause it would changed the perspective. Yeh, guess I need a wider angle lens – that’d help a bit 😉 The Sky (2×3 exposures) the ocean (1×3 exposures) and the beach (1×6 exposures) were taken about a month earlier on my trip at Montauk Point in New York (east end of long island) around the lighthouse.

So whats that – about 81 or more photographic frames and somewhere around 100 megapixel resolution? Had to save in multiple files in multiple stages to get around the 2Gb file limit. Yes takes forever to save – my poor mac 😉

Quite a bit of work to blend everything – especially around the leaf which has gotten comments. Course blend lighting, digital touch-up over seems etc. and more…

Thanks & congratulations to John (near Salida, CO) and Erick (Crested Butte, CO) for acquiring #1 in the matted & canvas editions respectively.

Taken this morning. Had to wait a long long time for the clouds to clear a bit. Sunset sky behind was taken prior.

Starship Oasis about 5:30 am this morning.

May need to tone down color a bit – this is the actual color I got from the HDR (no color enhancements). 2nd image shows vibrancy cut down about 34%

  

Table at Starship Oasis (toned down 24%)

This is one of my favorite shots. A song plays in my head every time I look at the scene – if I remember the title of the song I may rename the piece. But its really nice 😉

Originally shot a cople time in the afternoon, but went back and caught in perfect light with cool clouds… but I had just taken a jpeg of me in from of another shack and forgot to set back to RAW with multiple exposure & by the time I reset everything that sun had gone behind a cloud. So I waited around for a couple more hours and caught the sun popping out a little each time. So this is a composite of the single frame jpeg  with some later multiple exposures 🙂

Part of a large mining shack.