// I was lucky enough to be asked to join the folks over at HDR-Spotting as a Guest Editor – helping to review HDR photography submissions and to help moderate and grow the site. I’m really excited to be involved with such a cool site and hope to contribute in a meaningful way. If you...
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Tags: Botanical Garden, carillon, Chicago, Chicago Botanical Garden, cold, december, Evanston, garden, hdr, justin kern, Nikon D700, path, photo, photographer, photomatix, snow
// It’s Christmas Eve! Hope everyone is well rested and ready for a nice holiday – here are 12 images from the Chicago Botanical Garden’s Wonderland Express that I took earlier this week. This is an annual exhibit of myriad Chicago landmarks remade in natural, local plant material, replete with G-scale trains snaking throughout the...
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Tags: Chicago, chicago landmark, Evanston, hdr, justin kern, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, Nikon D700, photomatix, scale model, trains, University of Chicago, winter, wonderland express
// Regular readers of this blog will know that I post *a lot* of images from the University of Chicago, but today’s image comes to us from Northwestern University. Mike and I were doing a little shooting for the Chicago Humanities Festival. We had a wonderful time and spent a few minutes shooting some of...
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Tags: afternoon, Chicago, Evanston, hdr, justin kern, Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center, Nikon 85mm f/1.4, Nikon D700, Northwestern University, photomatix, spring, window
There are a lot of people who will say “I don’t like HDR,” or “HDR is too saturated, overdone,” and those same people will miss out on learning from HDR. Even if you don’t like the look of images that are tonemapped from HDRs, a photographer has a lot to learn from the technique. I’ve...
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paraskavedekatriaphobia: n. fear of Friday the 13th. Today’s images are an attempt to revel in the fearful and frightening, to peer into its dark maw and feel the blood run from our faces. As another band of the storm gathered over Calvary cemetery in Evanston, we walked amongst the dead. All was peace and darkness...
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Tags: Calvary cemetery, Evanston, fear, grave, justin kern, lake michigan, Nikon D700, photomatix, sky, storm, tree, winter
