Posts Tagged lakewood national

Tony Alessi kept his cool! (and didn’t beat up Josh Grant)

I have a little story about Tony Alessi that I’ve been wanting to share with everyone ever since I got back from the Colorado race in Lakewood. It’s actually a good story, and I was pleasantly surprised by Tony’s reaction, and I have to say that if I was in his shoes at that moment, I probably wouldn’t have kept my cool! This whole story revolves around Mike so I’ll be talking more about him then his dad, but this IS about Tony so read all the way down…

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HDR Photo Test

HDR photography is still pretty new and not many people know about it, and even less do it right! I’d like to think that I am part of the small group of photographers that can produce nice HDR images without over-doing it, but sometimes I love to over-do it! Sometimes making an image look completely unreal by pushing the HDR settings all the way up is actually rewarding, depending on what you’re trying to achieve of course.

While I was shooting the Colorado national race in Lakewood a few weeks back, I couldn’t help but to snap a few HDR images of the amazing sky and hills around the track…the only problem was that I didn’t have a tripod with me, so the images aren’t perfectly aligned, but still worth processing. A few of them turned out pretty good, and I couldn’t decide between the different versions I made, so I decided to show them all to you guys and girls and you can tell me which ones you like the best in the comments section at the end of the post! Read the rest of this entry »