My Kingdom For A Gatorade

A while back I wrote a piece about what I call ‘Creative Scheduling’, if you missed the post, you can read it here. The basic idea is that like anything in life we have limited time to do everything we want to, and creativity is no different. We need to make room for it in our schedules. This image is from one of those appointments I had with creativity. A couple weekends back I mentioned that my good friend Fred and I planned an entire day around the adventure of making images. We started at 5:30am, and were back home by 8:00pm. We left the house with nothing more than snacks, a map, and a lot of glass. Although it was an incredible day, and I will probably never forget it, by no means do you need to set aside a full day. Just ensure you are making time for your creative self, you never know what you might discover! Here I was hoping to discover a Gatorade. They weren’t open, so I decided to grab a refreshing serving of fisheye lens flare and chromatic aberration.

Capture Notes:

Nikon D300
Nikkor 10.5 DF Fisheye
Gitzo Traveler

Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 10.5 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Processing Notes:

Capture (11 images @ 1ev anchor, 4 above, and 6 below)
Photomatix – HDR/Tonemapping
Noiseware – noise reduction
Photoshop – Global curves adjustment
Nik Color Efex Pro – Tonal Contrast (just a touch to the bricks)
Small crop on the left (I think I could have avoided it had I paid more attention to the composition)
Sized For Web
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Golf Tip: After today’s season opening round of golf, I learned you drive, mulligan, drive again, rescue-wood, short iron, and pitch for show. You putt for dough!