Monday, April 12th, 2010
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. (HDR from a single RAW)
Admittedly, the food court makes for an awkward backdrop. The abundant glass windows at this end of the building allow a lot of natural light to hit the exhibit. This enabled me to get a nice indoor single RAW HDR without a tripod.
Excerpt from the museum’s website:
This is an actual lunar module, one of 12 built for Project Apollo. It was meant to be used in low Earth orbit to test the techniques of separation, rendezvous, and docking with the command and service module. The second of two such test vehicles, its mission was canceled because of the complete success of the first flight.
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
The Sailboat Pond at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham.
We make it out to the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science on a pretty regular basis. The ‘Catch the Wind’ exhibit features a neat little concrete enclosed pond where visitors can captain radio controlled sailboats. In this photo, I was fortunate enough to capture three of the sailboats in a staggered formation. The boat reflections turned out well and are enhanced by the gentle ripples on the pond’s surface.
I’m working on an HDR tutorial which I will debut in the next week or two. I also have several exciting photography opportunities coming up over the next couple of months, if I can break away from doing autopsies on moldy exhumed bodies long enough to take advantage of them!
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Tags: autumn, catch the wind, colorful, Durham, exhibit, fall, hdr, museum, NCMLS, North Carolina, pond, reflections, sailboat, science museum, toy
