This week I’ve been working with a local company to update their website with photographs from the Dayton region. The two photos that they requested are my night photograph of the Miami River with the Dayton Art Institute, the Masonic Temple, and Grandview Hospital in the background. They also wanted this photograph of a couple sitting enjoying the view at Taylorsville Five Rivers Metro Park. The night photograph of the Miami River was created for Kettering Health Network and is part of a wall display in the waiting room at Grandview Hospital in downtown Dayton. The photograph was taken in June about an hour after the sunset. The night was almost black, but I had to wait that long for the Grandview sign to light up bright enough to see it. I made my first set of photographs on a Thursday night, but I didn’t like the sky in the images, so I went back on Sunday. The sky was better on Sunday, but the Dayton Art Institute turns all their lights off on Sunday, so it was dark. I had to take the exposure for Thursday photograph of the Art Institute and insert it into the Sunday photograph to make the final version. I also did some enhancement work to the Taylorsville photograph. I created this photograph in early October, and the leaves weren’t at their peak color yet. The grass was dry because we hadn’t had much rain. The picture also had a typical Ohio blue fuzzy cloud sky, so I added a healthy cloud formation to the photograph. The sky came from Santa Fe, NM. Fortunately, for me, these are all things available today to enhance pictures and make them better than the original images. To see a Youtube video on how I created the Taylorsville photograph go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvZUTlEzJVY&t=300s. You can see 200 or more landscape photographs that are ready to be displayed on your walls or on your website at www.ClearyFineArtPhoto.com.
