Peanut Butter Pinecone | Feb. 14, 2013 | 4:37pm | Bannack Ghost Town | f/5.6 | 1/250 | Canon EOS Rebel T3
This is one of the last photos I took on the trip. I saw this peanut butter coated pinecone swinging lightly in the breeze and remembered I needed a photo showing frozen action. I swung the string higher to get a more dynamic shot. The birds were irritated that I denied them their treat for a few minutes. Once I moved away they happily flocked around again.
Mourning | Feb. 14, 2013 | 3:54pm | Bannack Ghost Town, Montana | f/5.6 | 6.0 | Canon EOS Rebel T3
This was a fun and tricky technique to try. I had to set my shutter speed extremely low and ask Meg to hold her pose for half the time, then quickly scramble from the shot while the other model helped perfectly still the entire time. The result was this ghost shot.” Because the slow shutter speed made the image extremely bright, I lowered the exposure, darkened the shadows, lowered the clarity, added dark vignette, and then used the adjustment brush in camera raw to raise exposure on the “ghost,” giving her a soft, eerie glow.