"Spotlight" Photo of the Day: February 15, 2016

Take a picture of me being cute under these lights.

"Viewing the Maze" Photo of the Day: December 12, 2015

"Viewing the Maze."

"Autumn Vines" Photo of the Day: October 26, 2015

"Autumn Vines." The way that nature interacts with architecture throughout the seasons fascinates me. It is frequently stunningly beautiful, as seen here on the University of Minnesota campus.

"Sails" Photo of the Day: September 30, 2015

"Sails."

"Purple Sunset" Photo of the Day: September 13, 2015

Yesterday evening I spent a good deal of time wandering throughout the parks surrounding the historic Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis. During a dazzling sunset, I made my way to the shore of the Mississippi River to get some photographs of the dramatic purple colors. Here in Minnesota, god is a Vikings fan!

Photo of the Day: July 31, 2015 "Nighttime Street"

I love shooting at night, it is one of my favorite things to do! There is something very rewarding about capturing nice photographs in low light situations and seeing how light interacts with an environment. This particular photo was shot this past Spring from the top of a parking garage late at night in Minneapolis. Overlooking a neighborhood with large student housing looming in the background, it was a challenge to get the exposures that I wanted to properly show how the illumination from the streetlights affected the street and buildings. 

Photo of the Day: July 29, 2015 "The Door"

"The Door." This late night photograph was taken this past winter around midnight. While out photographing the older buildings on the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus (one of the few university campuses with sections under the protection of the National Register of Historic Places) I came across this scene. A steep stairwell led down to a door intensely illuminated by a red light creating an almost creepy atmosphere!

Photo of the Day: July 28, 2015 "Frigid Illumination"

Here is an excerpt from my photography portfolio website on my image called Frigid Illumination. "In the frigid temperatures of a February night in Minneapolis, I photographed this student sitting among a collection of murals alongside a building on the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus. My hands have yet to forgive me for exposing them to the cold for so long while shooting, but some of the results were excellent." Visit my site at: http://www.wyattproschphotography.com/

Photo of the Day: July 25, 2015 "The Little Free Library"

Sometimes photography is about finding the little wonders rather than shooting the obvious subjects or compositions. In a small southern Minnesota city I came across this homemade "little free library". I decided to shoot it in black and white to add to the feeling that I was trying to evoke from this interactive sculpture.

Photo of the Day: July 22, 2015 "The Barbershop"

This is a photo that I took while wandering about Sydney, Australia late at night during my recent trip. I was without a tripod and it was incredibly dark so I had to push my ISO number higher to get an appropriate exposure without any blur, resulting in quite a bit of noise (or grain). I am not one to extensively edit my photographs, as I only  like to use post-processing as a way to get my photos to appear as they did to my naked eye while shooting. However, I played around with this photo a bit more than I normally would have. Rather than fighting the noise I decided to strengthen it, giving the image a unique old-fashioned appearance. What do you think of the final product?

Photo of the Day: July 18, 2015 "Darling Harbor Skyline"

I think that I will continue posting photos from my recent trip to Australia until people really get annoyed! Here is yet another photo from Darling Harbor in Sydney that I took late at night. The hustle and bustle of this harbor created an incredible environment revolving around the gorgeous water. The "Darling Harbor skyline" isn't too bad, is it?

Photo of the Day: July 17, 2015 "Chinese Garden of Friendship"

Whats around the corner?? What is causing all of those weird blue light beams??? This photo was taken at the "Chinese Garden of Friendship" in Sydney about two weeks ago. This reflecting pool offered a very restricted view of the network of buildings within the garden and I attempted to capture the mysterious aura of the space here.

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.

Photo of the Day: July 8, 2015. Darling Harbor Cool Yule Winter Festival

Yet another Sydney festival has come around! "Cool Yule" Winter Festival is a fun way for a city that doesn't get snow or ice to enjoy some of the colder aspects of the winter season. I took this image tonight in Darling Harbour, where under this massive snowflake structure is a temporary outdoor ice rink. Not surprisingly it was absolutely packed!

Photo of the Day: June 22, 2015

While waiting for a ferry to take my group and I to Royal National Park in New South Wales, I spent some time wandering around the docks in Cronulla. The water was ridiculously glass-like and was giving some beautiful reflections. What do you think?

Photo of the Day: June 16, 2015

"Love." Photographed in a small town in southern Minnesota on a chapel's grounds.

Photo of the Day: June 15, 2015

Gold Coast, Australia. This photo was taken from the top of Q1, the tallest building in Australia. The way that the architecture of the city interacts with the ocean and rivers was gorgeous!

Conservatory Plant Life

Hey everyone, this is just a quick post on some photos that I got on a recent trip to a local conservatory. Since Spring is taking its sweet time to arrive here in Minnesota, it was nice to spend some quality time shooting indoors in a tropical environment. 

I also want to say that I have been busily working on creating my own online portfolio website (I am using smugmug). It is quite a process to get it up to my standards but it is beginning to take shape... Regardless, I hope to have it up and running this weekend and will obviously post a link to it here. 

Finally, I did something that I should have done a long time ago and that is change the url of this site. Back when I first started my photography blog back in 2008 it was called "WP Nature Photography" and the url coincided with that and was "wp-nature-photography.blogspot.com". As my experience grew and my love of photography spread to much more than just nature, I changed the name to a much more appropriate "Wyatt Prosch Photography". However because of some obvious negative results (lost comments, lost bookmarks, etc.) I put off changing the url to the proper title. 

I finally did the other day, so I apologize for some of the setbacks that you may notice as a result. In due time the blog will be back up to full speed! As always, thank you for looking!

Lights and Reflections

My obsession with HDR shooting at night has continued to preoccupy my photographic endeavors recently. Overall I am very pleased with the way that this specific set of images turned out after capture and post-processing. I believe that there is a way to do HDR right and a way to do it utterly wrong. Because of the incredible detail of not only the subjects themselves but of the color range in an image possible with HDR, too frequently people abuse this by creating photos of immense color and tonal detail to the point where it looks so unreal that it is ridiculous. That is just a personal opinion though...

Anyway, comment and let me know which of these images you like the best and what your thoughts on HDR photography are (if you are unsure of what HDR is, don't worry I'll be doing a post just on the ins and outs of the craft). Thanks for looking everyone!

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?