After some new found information by my good friend Greg, I found out how to shoot a 9 shot bracketed HDR. This is the Linnean House at the Missouri Botanical Garden. It's been recently remodeled and has never looked better. I also used exposure fusion in photomatix to blend the exposures and it really worked out a lot better to give a more realistic feel. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions would be welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Linnean Angles
Monday, January 30, 2012
Glass Abstract
After grabbing a couple of shots of the Chihuly ceiling, I attached my trusty 50mm f/1.8 for some detail shots. I was channeling DugJax and his master abstract skills to take these shots. What I really love about this ceiling installation, is that the colors are intense by themselves and even better in combination with each other. Of course this particular piece attracted me because it's green. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Reverse Lobby Detail
This is the reverse or the back side of the Port Orleans French Quarter lobby. I couldn't take not posting a Disney shot any more so I had to add something. Sunset was happening on the front of the building so the shadows are pretty harsh, but I like the detail just the same. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Watching The Glass Go By
This is a shot I took of my beautiful girlfriend Jenea sitting on the rotating circular bench. I would without a doubt have to say my favorite part about going to see and shoot this Chihuly artwork is that Jenea is by my side and just as excited to see it as me. I had a pretty hard time processing this one, without getting the ceiling to bright and getting Jenea bright enough. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Single/Multiple Self Portrait
There was a small hall of mirrors and wall of mirror domes that we had fun shooting in for a while at the Children's Museum. This is me of course, I was actually able, after a lot of moving and adjusting, to get a self portrait of myself and to be in the frame from two different angles at the same time. I wasn't going to change it at first, but I couldn't take the backwards Nikon logo, so I flipped the whole image in photoshop, but that's about it. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Monday, January 23, 2012
From The Bottom Up
Here's another shot of the beautiful Fireworks of Glass Tower at the Indianapolis Children's Museum. I liked how this one was framed up and the closer detail that it offered. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Ceiling Detail
I know I just posted a shot of this ceiling yesterday, but I had to post this one because I was able to stretch my tripod really tall, and use my ultra wide angle lens to get a shot of the ceiling filling the frame. I absolutely love all the different pieces that are in these ceiling installations. I would probably have to say that it would either be a ceiling installation, or a boat installation from Chihuly. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Ceiling
Fireworks of Glass
The Ceiling
The Fireworks of Glass ceiling floats just under the tower. It is filled with 1,600 pieces of glass from Chihuly’s spectacular series, including Sea Tubes, Hornballs, Persians, and Putti in a variety of shapes and colors.
On the museum’s Lower Level children and families can look up and see the brilliantly colored glass forms in the ceiling.
Children and adults can also sit on a large, round, revolving platform, gaze at the ceiling overhead and discuss what they see.
Families can also create their own sculptures with colorful plastic-like shapes call polyvitro; and blow glass or explore the hot shop and the glassblowing process virtually.
Sourced from:
www.childrensmuseum.org/fireworks-of-glass
I still can't really decide which I liked better, the tower or this unbelievable ceiling. We must have spent a half hour just wandering and starring at this ceiling. The bench in the center you could lay back on and it's circular and spins slowly. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Tower
Fireworks of Glass
The Tower
The Fireworks of Glass tower stands in the museum’s central atrium, where children and families can circle the ramps and explore it from all sides. Chihuly's artists blew and installed 3,200 pieces of glass on the tower. It comprises more than 3,200 individually blown, brilliantly colored, two- to four-foot-long pieces of smooth and twisted glass called Horns and Goosenecks.
Sourced from:
www.childrensmuseum.org/fireworks-of-glass
This is the main centerpiece in the Fireworks of Glass exhibition at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. This tower is massive in size and has many different pieces in red, blue, and yellow. The cross on the floor is translucent and is the ceiling underneath. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Fireworks of Glass Preshow
As I was processing my photos from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis and the Chihuly exhibit that is there, I had real trouble deciding which I should show first. I thought I would take a queue from Disney and have a little preshow with this shot of the exhibit sign. This way the rest of the series will have a little more backstory. I hope you all enjoy when I present photos in series like this, as I have really come to enjoy doing it that way. Almost like I can take you all along too. Enjoy!
Fireworks of Glass is the largest permanent sculpture of blown glass by renowned artist Dale Chihuly. The 43-foot-tall tower rises above a glass ceiling.
The Tower
The Fireworks of Glass tower stands in the museum’s central atrium, where children and families can circle the ramps and explore it from all sides. Chihuly's artists blew and installed 3,200 pieces of glass on the tower. It comprises more than 3,200 individually blown, brilliantly colored, two- to four-foot-long pieces of smooth and twisted glass called Horns and Goosenecks.
The Ceiling
The Fireworks of Glass ceiling floats just under the tower. It is filled with 1,600 pieces of glass from Chihuly’s spectacular series, including Sea Tubes, Hornballs, Persians, and Putti in a variety of shapes and colors.
On the museum’s Lower Level children and families can look up and see the brilliantly colored glass forms in the ceiling.
Children and adults can also sit on a large, round, revolving platform, gaze at the ceiling overhead and discuss what they see.
Families can also create their own sculptures with colorful plastic-like shapes call polyvitro; and blow glass or explore the hot shop and the glassblowing process virtually.
Hands-On Exhibit
Below the ceiling is a hands-on exhibit area. Here, children and adults can sit on a large, round, revolving platform, gaze at the ceiling overhead and discuss what they see. Families can also create their own sculptures with colorful plastic-like shapes called polyvitro and blow glass virtually or explore the hot shop and the glassblowing process on two computer screens.
Sourced from:
www.childrensmuseum.org/fireworks-of-glass
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Orange And Lime Niijima
This is a select individual Niijima Float from the Cheekwood Botanic Garden exhibition by Dale Chihuly. I really like the colors in this one, and I really like the rock garden around it radiating from it. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Chihuly In Panoramic
This is a 7x3 shot HDR panorama (21 total shots) I shot with my 50mm f/1.8 of the Chihuly chandelier that hangs in the main lobby of the Missouri Botanical Gardens. This is definitely one that I'd like to try again. This turned out well enough, but it bugs me that its just a bit off center. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Sometimes, Less Is More
This is inspired by one of my good Flickr friends, Kristen W., who has recently added some water drop photos of her own. I'm taking a queue from her and going with a little bit simpler shot for today. In trying to get different splashes and collisions, it's easy I think to lose sight of just how beautiful this stuff is. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Friday, January 6, 2012
Persian Glass on Glass
Some more fun from the Cheekwood Botanic Garden Chihuly exhibit. These pieces are called persians and they were set up in these atrium windows, so I got some beautiful color coming through the window. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Blue Reeds On The Hillside
Another shot from the Cheekwood Botanic Garden Chihuly exhibit in Nashville Tennessee. One thing I've always liked about these garden shows is that even though these installations jump out at you when you first see them, they are relatively unassuming. They don't really seem too out of place, which goes to show to intense detail and thought that is put into these installations. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Overflowing
To continue my Chihuly preparations, I have another perspective of the boat installation at the Cheekwood Botanic Garden in Nashville Tennessee. I really loved that all these warm colors were inside of the turquoise colored boat. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Glass Roots
I wanted to get back to posting some Chihuly shots because out a week and a half, I get to shoot another Chihuly exhibit. I'm so excited to just be getting away for the weekend, but having the opportunity to see another Chihuly exhibit and shoot it is a plus. Jenea and I will be heading to Indianapolis, IN for the 14 and 15 to visit their Children's Museum to see the Fireworks in Glass exhibit. A nice big tower and glass ceiling to see and shoot. I can't wait to get back to my "glass roots" since it was Chihuly exhibits as well as Disney that got me into photography in the first place.
This particular shot is from the Missouri Botanical Garden in the main atrium. I love shooting this chandelier, as I'm sure you've all noticed. Please let me know what you all think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
P.S. - If anyone lives in the area and can offer any suggestions of things to do or shoot in the Indianapolis area, please let me know. We need something to do on Saturday evening I believe. :)
Monday, January 2, 2012
New Color
Hey everyone! Happy New Year to al, glad to be back with another photo! For Christmas, I got some flash gels from Jenea that I've been having some fun experimenting with. It really makes me want another flash for this water drop stuff, but that I'll have to wait a bit for. This particular shot is pretty simple, yellow drop and base water, a white background behind the drop tray, and a true blue flash gel on my SB-700. Having to flashes with different colors on them would really have some epic results, so I can't wait for that. Please let me know what you think as any suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
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