The watercolor background effect was achieved with no photoshop whatsoever, this is the result of a 1/4 second exposure with a flash to illuminate the guy walking. It has an interesting water color effect.

Almost everything I shot over this weekend was candid instead of all these photographers from news outlets getting people to pose. You can see all the shots in the Misplaced Events section of the site.

To get the black and white levels where they needed to be, the stepping ended up being -1, 0, 3. This was actually done while I was calibrating my shutter speed for the sky, but I liked it so much I decided to make something out of it, so here it is.

This is an HDR generated with Photomatix and done using the Tone Compressor to keep the realism.

You can see the American Coney Island, as well as people going about their day outside.

The shot is black and white with duo-tone coloring. It’s vertical, so make sure you view the full size.

To learn more about what they do there, visit www.icd-center.org.

During the last shot in this HDR series, a van from the International Bridge Company drove by. While the van is not seen in the shot, the light that the headlights gave off produced a very interesting result, lighting the right foreground as well as the left part of the sky. While Churches are some of my favorite things to photograph, I especially like the way this came out.

This is just proof that there ain’t no party like a Detroit party.

The worst part of it all was of course, the high amount of terror I felt as I stood there, on the side of the road, with my obviously expensive camera, in a less than desirable neighborhood at night where cars kept slowing down right behind me, or just plain stopping. But, the risk was worth it, I’m very happy with the way the shot came out. So it’s all good, enjoy.

Learn more about the Ice House at The Detroit News website.

It was creepy enough without opening them and rummaging through whatever on earth might have been inside. More beautiful flashlight lighting as well.

Even though this wasn’t a kitchen area, there was a fridge to the left there as well. Lighting was done with a standard bulb flashlight on the fire alarm and an LED light pointed at the wall in the background where it looks blue.

1) The lighting in museums suck. Really really bad.

2) Under no circumstances should you be stuck with only a 55-250mm lens.

3) Things like this character to your left are truly badass, and deserve to be photographed.

4) I hate the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT

However, this one reads “The Unholy Beasts”. It’s on a public bench near the gazebo in Mount Clemens, between the city municipal building and the fire department. Things like this, plain and simple, just make me wonder.

Steam pours out of Detroit manholes much of the time, a salute to our archaic infrastructure system. Don’t step on them, it’s hot and can cause complications. For example, it knocked out one of my contact lenses, which made for a pretty awful “no depth perception” drive home. So enjoy.