Paul Monday

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HDR Photography

I have meshed many of my HDR photos within the galleries but just for curiosity, I figured I would push them all to a single smart gallery so I could look them over. I've noticed over the year / year and a half that I've been doing HDR photography my work has become more and more realism based rather than garish. I'm starting to use it more as a regular tool to expose shadows and reduce blowouts rather than some of the more extremist tone mapping that helps to teach the practice. Enjoy the gallery :) You'll find most of these among my other captures ... what I noticed as I went through these though is not what is IN the gallery, but what amazing pictures from my portfolio that are NOT in the gallery. Nature and photography is astounding in the shapes, light and forms it brings to us naturally.
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    One of my favoritist sculptures in Denver. It's in kind of a bad setting though ... maybe when the Denver Post goes under and I buy the land, crush the building and turn it into "Paul's Vinyl (Record) Mart" the sculpture will finally have a proper setting ....
    There are so many ways to look at this picture of this church and the building behind it ... but definitely we're talking about modern society overwhelming this more religious view of the world ... remember how spires on churches reach to the heavens, what can you say for our desire to build commercial real estate that dwarfs our religious symbols?
    I destroyed my second f/2.8 17-50mm lens after working with this capture.  I guess I will have to let it go and part ways with the lens series.  Despite my absolute and undying devotion to the lens, it has brought me most of my favorite pictures, there is a point where I should probably get the message.  Time to head to the camera store and find a new one ... or perhaps ... maybe the same one if I can't let go ;-)  Here is union station, another one of the penultimate pictures in Denver proper.