Madnessmatrix | Eric Bowers Photography

Three handheld RAWs // HDR // Shutter: varied // Aperture: f/5.0 // Focal Length: 15 mm // ISO 640

Long may we lament the demise of summer.

Right now I’m listening to some songs by The Bravery… which works well since the sun hasn’t come up yet.

We had a consistent and thick cloud cover over Kansas City yesterday, and since I ended up going downtown anyway, I walked around for an hour snapping new photos - using just my fisheye lens and my normal wide angle lens - refraining from climbing to the top of the superfluous parking garages for elevated photos and the like - I’ve done that so often before.

For times when one wants to combine a day of total cloudiness with handholding multiple source images for HDR processing, a pretty wide aperture helps out in getting the quick shutter speeds to reduce movement and shake between shutter firings when collecting the source images handheld and unencumbered by a tripod. Bracketing and burst mode are a must for this scenario, of course.

Conversely, when there’s sunshine - I usually hope for at least partial cloudiness and then use a narrow aperture to accentuate the sunrays poking through the clouds - always fun.

Anyway, another reminder that Waterfire Kansas City is tomorrow night at Brush Creek - then I’m off to NYC for a week - but this site should remain up to date throughout the week.