LIGHTS! Camera! Great Subjects!

Lighting seemed to be a big theme for me on Friday's visit to Princeton. I noticed it as I was editing the photos. I thought I'd dedicate today's blog post to it.

I love this old campus and the architecture...the fine details in things like lighting, doors, decorative details blow me away!















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PRINCETON II - At the Cathedral on Campus

Firstly I needed to share this because it's so me!



Today I spent another couple hours walking around Princeton University taking multiple exposures of the campus as well as the beautiful church on the campus which became my favorite part of the day for photos.

A few hightlights from today's visit to Princeton University. I stopped in the huge church on campus and got some wonderful HDR shots:



















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Hallowed Halls of Princeton University

This series is from the hour I spent last Saturday on the Princeton University campus. I don't see a lot of architecture that is as beautiful as the craftsmanship of these buildings too often!









In Black & White:



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Out and About in Princeton

Today I had to run some errands and decided to bring the tripod camera. I headed towards Princeton, NJ and parked on the main street and decided to focus on one area of the campus with beautiful architecture.

I did everything with 3 exposures so I could create some HDRs in Photomatrix with the photos taken.

I spent about one hour on the campus and got what I think are some great shots but then my $1.25 for our hour on the parking meter was up and I had no more change so I had to leave or get a ticket!

Before I headed home I stopped back at 2 areas I wanted to revisit (both were on the same rocky road). One was an abandoned nursury/green houses of sorts that is huge and strangely is completely fenced in around it -- and the other was right down the rocky path which eventually turned into paved road -- a was a number of abandoned homes.

I photgraphed the abandoned nursery in the most pleasing way possible (due to the chain link fence around it) and I found a bit of higher ground in the field next to it where I could get a better look and some better photos that were all behind a fence.

When I was done there I explored the street with the abandoned houses although I wasn't sure if I'd find anything worthy of photographing. I make a turn and found that one of the houses had a huge barn that was somewhat falling apart - which is right up my alley (and oerfect for HDR photography)!

I photographed there as quick as I could because I'm sure these boarded up homes were "no trespassing!" The barn made some great photos along with a falling down clothesline that caught my interest.

After I edit them I will post away!