Showing posts with label Kansas City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kansas City. Show all posts

7/15/15

Photo of the Day: July 15, 2015 "The Door"


Hi everyone, I shot this photo tonight as I explored the World War 1 memorial here in Kansas City. The monument seems even more powerful at night as lights embedded into the ground illuminate the tower. Almost all photographs that I have seen of this monument focus on the structure's verticality, so with this photo I took the different approach of focusing on the lights and this staff door while leaving the height of the structure to the imagination.

3/30/15

Playing With Light





 Hi everyone, this is a quick post of some images that I took on my resent stay in Kansas City. This was not any sort of intentional light study, however, the way that we see and perceive light, color, and shadow shape our vision in incredible ways. I think that those notions are on display in these three separate examples...what do you think? Which image is your favorite?

3/27/15

Black and White HDR Night Photography...at the Museum!





Hi everyone! On our way back through Kansas City after visiting the Ozarks this past week, we spent some time with my family exploring some of the cool stuff that "KC" has to offer. One such thing was the incredible Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This free art museum is absolutely massive and I had the privilege of visiting it twice: once, during the morning and early afternoon exploring the exhibits, and later on returning once the sun had set to photograph the "Modern Art" wing of the museum after dark. This stunning building has an extraordinary facade not unlike portions of the University of Minnesota's own Rapson Hall (where I basically live during the school year). 

These images are a bit different than what I normally shoot as they are 1. Black and White, and 2. High Dynamic Range. Both of these factors play into interesting images that I feel helps bring out the character that the stunning building had over the surrounding landscape. HDR Photography entails taking several images of the same composition, each at different exposures. Merging these images together later on in the post-processing stage allows for most everything in a photo to be properly exposed, rather than just the focal point of an image. I will do a post just on HDR Photography later on. Thanks for looking!