Seymour Digital Consulting, LLC

Author: Andrew

  • A Fall walk in the Peacedale Preserve

    A Fall walk in the Peacedale Preserve

    Some images taken during a late Fall walk in the Natural Lands Trust’s Peacedale Preserve in Chester County, PA.

    There was a weather front moving through while I was there, which allowed for some very interesting cloud and lighting conditions, and several times, I was able to see some Crepuscular rays.

    Weather Clouds 169 – Peacedale Preserve
    Weather Clouds hdr 01 – Peacedale Preserve
    Weather Clouds 024 – Peacedale Preserve

    At one point during my walk, I encountered a real old-timer.

    In the middle of the Preserve, there is a huge beech tree, at is 3-4 feet in diameter, and easily several hundreds of years old!

    I don’t think I have ever seen a monster like this!

    I was also extremely surprised with all the wooly bear caterpillar that I encountered. (Predicting Winter Weather: Woolly Bear Caterpillars)

    During my walk, I had to avoid walking on over a dozen of these critters!

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  • Hunting for Fall Colors

    Hunting for Fall Colors

    On Friday the 18th, I had a chance to drive around again looking for the Fall colors.

    Here we are, over halfway through October, and there still is a fair amount of green still in the trees, but in other places, some of the trees are already bare.

    Creek Rd Tone Map 072
    Creek Rd Tone Map 107
    Creek Rd Tone Map 095
    Creek Rd Tone Map 057
    Creek Rd HDR 01
    Creek Rd Tone Map 111
    Creek Rd Tone Map 078

    All these shoots were taken using my Canon 18-55 IS using both two Tiffen Neutral Density filters (1.2 & 0.9) at f22+ for 15 to 25 seconds.

    I gotta find me a ND filter in the 2.1 range. My 3.0 is too much, and I do not like having two layers of glass on the lens…

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  • Barn door with corn stalks – Digital Art

    Barn door with corn stalks – Digital Art

    I am still ‘new’ to the digital art/painting capabilities of Adobe Photoshop CS6, but it has been a lot of fun playing!

    Earlier in the week, while out on a GPS drive, I captured the base image while shooting out the car window, and published it ‘as is’ so to speak.

    A couple of days later, playing with a new processing technique, I came up with this!

    Barn door with corn stalks - Digital Art
    Barn door with corn stalks – Digital Art

    I’m still fine tuning which images this technique works best, so come back again to see more images!

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  • Minquas Fire Company Open House

    My son and I were out doing Saturday errands, when we happened by the Minquas Fire Company Open House, and what boy could resist Firetrucks…

    Looking back
    A Long Way Up
    Reaching for the Sky

    We spent about a half-hour wandering around, looking at the various pieces of equipment, and being very thankful, that these folks are under 5 minutes away from my home!

    Later in the evening, I got a Facebook mail from the folks at the station house, asking if they could use the photo I took during the Super Moon for their Facebook profile.

    I quickly responding by saying Yes!

    Minquas Facebook Cover Page
    Minquas Facebook Cover Page

    Again Many, Many Thanks to all those First Responders, and I am so glad that you are right down the street!

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  • Stylized Hay Bales

    Folks that live in Chester County, or anywhere hay is harvested, have seen bale after bale just lying in fields.

    So on this rainy day, I decided to take a second look at some of my images in my collection…

    Between the rows
    Long Sides
    Hay Bales & Grasshopper
    Side View

    I am going to have to keep this technique in mind for future use!

    If you are interested in how I processed these images, please let me know!

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