Linda Keaton in Creve Coeur Park

Model Linda Keaton braving the green water in Creve Coeur Park Lake, makeup and hair by Jackie Hicks.  Photo capture with Hasselblad 500 C/M, 150mm f/4.0 Sonnar, Kodak TMax 100.  Original print on Agfa Portriga Rapid #3.

Grunge processing with blue and sepia split tone in Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.

Water Pool, Japanese Garden, MOBOT

The Japanese Garden at the Missouri Botanical Gardens is rich with small details that are off the main paths.  This small pool with a tiny waterfall is one of my favorites.

Camera: Nikon D700 

Lens: AF Zoom-NIKKOR 24-85mm f/2.8-4D IF 

Exposure: ISO 200, 48mm @ f/11 @ 1/125s, handheld

Lighting: Sunlight at Noon

Location: Missouri Botanical Gardens GPS

Processing: Lightroom 3, Nik Color Efex Pro

Park Bench In Flood #2, Day for Night

I posted an earlier version of this picture, but felt it did not have enough contrast and didn't quite make the leap to abstraction.  Playing with it in Lightroom 3, I was thinking it might be a good "day-for-night" candidate.  In the film days, you'd shoot tungsten stock in daylight and underexpose by 1-2 stops.  So in Lightroom I changed the white balance of the RAW file to tungsten, dropped the exposure and boosted contrast and saturation.

Technical: Nikon D700, Nikkor 180mm f2.8 "Leni Lens", ISO 200, f/4.0 @ 1/640s, handheld.  RAW file processed in Lightroom 3 Beta 2 64-bit and Nik Dfine, Vivenza and Color Efex Pro Complete, in which I applied the "Glamor Glow" and the "Polaroid Transfer" styles.