{"id":1368,"date":"2016-09-23T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2017-07-23T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T13:50:49","slug":"masonic-lodgeschool-house-bannack-state-park-montana-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"Masonic Lodge\/School House, Bannack State Park, Montana Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Masonic Lodge\/School House, Bannack State Park, Montana Photography (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While\u00a0in Montana, we met up with several old friends. \u00a0One, Dave Sorensen, is a water color artist of some\u00a0renown\u00a0(see Dave’s work here<\/a>). \u00a0Sitting around in the evenings, we discussed his watercolors and my photography. \u00a0In his travels, Dave carries a small point and shoot camera. \u00a0When he sees a scene that he thinks has potential, he shoots a quick picture. \u00a0Later, he might use that picture as the inspiration for a watercolor. \u00a0The finished watercolor is his “interpretation” of that scene and might not be an exact rendering.<\/p>\n

This got me to thinking about my photography. \u00a0Dave starts with a completely blank canvas and builds to his finished artwork. \u00a0In my case (and probably the case for every serious photographer) the images I capture are really just a starting canvas. \u00a0I use these as a base layer to start building my interpretation of the scene as I envisioned it.<\/p>\n

The image above is an example of this. \u00a0The original image had no clouds in the frame. \u00a0None, zero, nada, just a very plain, washed out, blue sky. \u00a0The original was also very contrasty. \u00a0The sun was coming from the left, with the left side wall of the building almost blown out. \u00a0The top of the front face of the building was also in deep shadow under the eaves. \u00a0All in all, it was not a very inspired image when I took it.<\/p>\n

Knowing I had a contrast problem, I took several images while varying the exposure time. \u00a0This allowed me to build an HDR image and somewhat even out the exposure across the image. \u00a0Since Bannack State Park is a ghost town, it seemed logical to convert the image to black and white.<\/p>\n

Finally, I needed to “re-interpret” that dull sky. \u00a0During our trip I had taken several images of the sky when there were clouds. \u00a0I took these images during the morning, middle of the day, and towards evening. \u00a0This gave me a set of stock cloud images from which choose. \u00a0I selected an interesting image, lined up the clouds where I wanted them, used a layer mask, and presto, interesting sky.<\/p>\n

Bannack State Park Masonic Lodge\/School House:<\/p>\n

N45\u00b09’42” \u00a0W 112\u00b059’51”<\/p>\n

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