The processing, printing, and matting of images for the Bangor State Fair photo contest is finally done. Well, all I had to do was process and print them (easy), my dad had the more difficult and time-consuming task of matting them. So for the next week or so, I’m going to put some images up that I used for the fair contest.
First up are a couple of moose photos I took at the beginning of July in Baxter State Park. You know you’re gonna have a fun day when it starts at 3am. We actually struck out until about 10am in regards to moose pictures, when we spotted one on our final check at Stump Pond before packing up and heading home. It’s not a bull moose with full-grown antlers like I wanted (something that has eluded me for years now), but it’s still a moose and it was still an enjoyable day of shooting. If I can go out and get one picture that I think is pretty cool, then it was a good day.
And the final image for today is one that slipped under my radar for months and months. I only rediscovered the rather uninteresting colour version of this shot last week when I was scrambling around trying to find a night shot to use for the fair contest. I took this back in December in Montréal when my dad, brother, and I went up to Mont Royal before heading back home. If my memory serves me, I had one more final exam before heading home for Christmas, so I was pretty excited at the time. It was a very, very cold evening with a decent amount of wind, so the conditions weren’t fantastic, but I just didn’t care. Having grown up in a very small town, there’s something really special about a city’s skyline for me.
Well, that’s all I’ve got for now. Happy shooting, everyone.
Details for above images: All taken with Nikon D3. Moose pictures with Nikon 400mm f/2.8. Montréal picture with Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8. Basic adjustments to moose pictures in Photoshop using Nik software plug-ins. The Montréal picture was converted to black and white in Silver Efex Pro 2 and the moon was added in post-processing.
