Orillia Classic Car Show

Got up early and photographed some of the cars attending this years Orillia Classic Car Show. Organizers expected close to 450 cars this year. They started parking about 5:30 am and to get pictures without people this was the time to start. It would have been nice if the street lights had stayed on longer.
I photographed till about 8:30 am and went home and printed half a dozen pictures. The Custom Frameworks on Mississaga St displayed these in there front window and handled sales










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More HDR This time from Orillia

Spent most of the day taking and processing HDR images from Orillia. These are the ones I am really happy with.Will print some of these to display at Tiffins for this years Starry Night studio tours They look much better when printed as 13 x19 prints, the detail is lost on these small images
Aug 22 - STARRY NIGHT: A MAGICAL EVENING OF ART
Experience Orillia's vibrant arts community & meet local artists in their creative spaces! Guest artists & musicians, all studios & galleries open, 7:00 pm - Midnight, Downtown Orillia, 326-2159






Detail from Chair

HDR Workshop at Wye Marsh

Took a photo workshop on doing High Dynamic Range photographs at the Wye Marsh in Midland this weekend, taught by John Davidson http://www.johndavidsonphotography.com/
HDR lets you blend several exposures together into one photograph and retain detail in the shadows and highlights that a single exposure could not reproduce. The following image was taken looking into the sun and manipulated on the computer to create an HDR image, The second image is what you would get with a single regular camera exposure.



Following are some other images from the weekend as I practice this technique, You can give the images a more surreal look or a traditional feel. I like the bumped sharpness /contrast and the more surreal look


Last two pictures taken in Coldwater on the way home.