Tag Archives: Concord River

Riverfest and Photography Workshop

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Posted in Community, Environment, Photography

This weekend, June 11-13, is RiverFest – celebrating the Wild & Scenic Sudbury, Assabet and Concord Rivers.

They have a great website with dozens of programs for boaters and landlubbers alike (most of them are family-friendly as well).  The weather looks to be pretty good this weekend (we’ll see if that holds).

I’ll be photographing the OARS RiverQuest event on Saturday morning.  You’ll find me trolling up and down the three rivers around the confluence at Egg Rock.

On Sunday I’m leading a somewhat unusual photography workshop at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge.  The workshop will take place on Puffer Pond — so if you don’t have a boat don’t bother showing up.  I’ll be going over some techniques and tips for photographing nature from your kayak or canoe.  After a bit of discussion we’ll head out on the pond and make some photographs.   I have to admit I’m hoping for a small group and probably shouldn’t even be mentioning it here, but what the heck.

Participants can unload on Sandbank Trail, however you will need to park by the visitor center in designated parking areas. 680 Hudson Rd, Sudbury, MA. Meet at the boat launch off of Sandbank Trail at 6:15 am.

Please try to take some time and visit our beautiful rivers this weekend.

Image above: Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge, Puffer Pond.   Canon 7D, 500mm f/4L, 1/6400 at f/4, ISO 640.  Handheld from kayak.

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Take time to enjoy your rivers

Thursday, April 14, 2011 Posted in Community, Environment, Lightroom, Photography

A quick reminder (to myself as much as anybody) that warmer weather is nature’s way of saying “c’mon outside!”.  Whether you are a paddler, angler, or just like to walk along the shoreline, go visit a nearby river or stream and take in the lifeblood of your neighborhood ecosystem.

Photograph of folks enjoying the Concord River at the Old North Bridge crossing, just downstream from the confluence of the Sudbury and Assabet Rivers.

Technical details: Canon 7D, handheld in the kayak, 70-200mm f/2.8L at 200mm.  1/1250, f/2.8, ISO2500.  Lightroom 3, black and white processing, lots of tweaking in the B&W mix panel  (de-emphasize greens, brighten up the yellows).   By choosing B&W over color and mixing the luminosities of the colors I was able to remove a lot of the distraction of the background trees and make the foreground bridge and people pop out much more.   Sometimes color is a distraction.

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Blue and Gold

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Posted in Lightroom, Photography, Staring

A scene from the Concord River in Billerica a couple of years ago (you can tell it’s not this year because there’s not 5 feet of snow on the shoreline).   I have to admit that I was a bit let down by how this renders in the browser’s colorspace — the blues are much more vibrant on my monitor in Lightroom.  That single leaf trapped in the ice also appealed to me a bit.

Technical: Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm f/2.8L at 28mm, 1/125 second, f/13, ISO 200.  Filter configuration unrecorded.
Lightroom 3:  Lens correction applied, exposure +1/4 stop, fill 48, blacks 35, clarity +37, vibrance +7, sharpened to taste.  White balance was set to 6300K – which probably isn’t far off from “reality” (such as it was).  This was one of those images where the white balance dramatically affected the intent of the image.  Keeping it around 6000K balanced the warmth of the setting sun with the cool ice reflecting the sky.

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