Category Archives: Photoshop

Apr 12
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Photographing Waterfalls

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Photo Share – Laurel Falls

Waterfalls make excellent subjects to photograph. The one thing I love about them is most of them require a hike to get to the actual waterfall. It’s kind of like finding a prize at the end of a maze! Waterfalls are natural beauty and can create beautiful prints to hang in your home or office.

Tip: To create an image like this slow your shutter speed down to around .5 second or longer this can be achieved by the use of ND filters or by photographing them during overcast cloudy days.

Photographing Waterfalls

I used a setting of F22 without an ND Filter for this shot of Laurel Falls.

 

Nov 04
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Photographing Waves

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Playing In The Ocean

 

This year during vacation I ventured out into the ocean about knee deep with my Induro Tripod and Canon 60D fitted with the 70-200mm and shot wave after wave as they rolled in. It was a lot of fun trying to capture both the beauty of nature and the power of the ocean. I tried many different shutter speeds from .5 second to 1/60th trying to blend both the motion and stopping time at that perfect moment. I found this to be very therapeutic and calming even though having your camera gear in the mighty ocean would have frightened me to death a few years ago.

 

Photo Share – Waves

Photographing Waves

Sep 24
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Football Portraits

By | Canon 60D, Canon 6D, Composite Photography, HDR Photography, Lightroom 5, Photography, Photography Blog, Photoshop, Portraits, Virginia | No Comments

Football Portraits

 

This year my son started a new sport Football so to bring in the new sport I shot a couple football portraits.  This one is a composite portrait meaning the subject was shot in a studio location on a white background and then the background was swapped out later in Photoshop.  I love shooting these things they are much different than my normal work! These allow me to mix the artistic backgrounds with a portrait, to create a one of a kind portrait.

For more information or if you’d like to have your own Sportrait session feel free to contact me.

This is a composite portrait shot in a studio setting adding the background in to complete the image. For more information contact me on my blog at www.nfirebaughimages.com

Aug 02
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A Visit To Bald Head Island

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Bald Head Island Is The Place To Be

 

I finally made it over on to Bald Head Island! Before this trip to the North Carolina coast the closest I had been to Bald Head Island was just across the water on Oak Island. Some of you may have seen the photograph I took from here looking over at Old Baldy. The island is full of beautiful scenery and you get to rent golf carts to ride around in for the day! It has a nice quiet feel complete with beautiful beaches, nature trails, great restaurants and fun for everyone. I can’t wait for my next visit to the island there are still a few things I’d like to do like kayak all the marshes close to the boat house and photograph the birds.

 

Now here’s a shot I took from the West End of the island of Old Baldy.

Bald Head Island 2014

Jun 08
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Crabtree Falls

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Chasing Waterfalls

 

I went out with a few photography friends yesterday to spend the day photographing a few waterfalls here in Virginia. Our first stop was at Crabtree Falls located in Nelson County, this set of falls is one to the tallest sets of waterfalls east of the Mississippi River. The climb isn’t too bad even though the light we were working with didn’t allow us to hike to the very top. The trail is a pretty clean path and has railings to keep people off the dangerously slick rocks around the falls. I made my way out to a semi safe spot and took this shot looking away from the falls.

 

Crabtree Falls Virginia

May 08
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Spring Macro Photography

By | Camera Gear, Canon 60D, Floral, Lightroom 5, Macro Photography, Nature, Photography, Photoshop, Virginia | No Comments

Spring Macro Photography

In the spring I tend to use my Canon 100mm macro lens to death trying to capture every little bloom and bud in sight.  Spring macro photography has to be one of my favorite things about photography! Every year the same plants come and go but the photographs you take each year are always unique. This could be because of the subjects color or size difference each year or maybe you catch one of your subjects in the best light possible. That’s why I like shooting the same flowers and trees year after year.

This is one of my latest edits that I processed using a plugin called Topaz Restyle you can find my review of it here.  I took this shot using a Canon 60D and the Canon 100mm F2.8 Macro Lens handheld in aperture priority mode set at f2.8 and an ISO of 200. This combination of body and lens is an excellent setup for anyone looking to get into macro photography!