The Flickr Centerstripes Image Generatr

A view looking to the north along Texas State Highway 54. The mountains and peaks are of the Guadalupe Mountains and the namesake national park.

A setting looking to the north at a roadside pullout along Texas State Highway 118. My thinking in composing this image was to use the road and center stripe as a leading line into the image with Elephant Mountain and other peaks of the Big Bend Ranges off in the distance. I took advantage of the swiveled out LCD screen and used LiveView to center and line up the image as well as finding a focus point. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

While standing in the center of Texas State Highway 54 with a view looking north and to the ridges and peaks of the Guadalupe Mountains and the national park. One lone raven is caught in flight just right of the image center.

At a roadside pullout on US Hwy 385 with a view looking to the southwest just outside of Marathon, Texas, on a drive to Big Bend National Park. My thinking in composing this image was to use the centerline and road ahead as a leading line into the image with Santiago Peak as a focal point and distant destination. I used the swiveled out LCD screen and LiveView on my Nikon SLR camera to line up the image. I could then just touch that screen to focus and meter the image captured. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

At a roadside pull off along the main park road heading to the Boquillas Canyon with a view looking to the east. My thinking in composing this image was to get down low and more or less have a leveled on view, using the road and center stripe as a leading line to first, the tunnel with ridge, and then the ridgelines and peaks leading off into Mexico in the upper portion of the image.

A setting looking to the southwest at a roadside pullout just outside of Marathon, Texas. My thinking in composing this image was to use the road and center stripe as a leading line into the image with Santiago Peak as that distant point in the image center. I took advantage of the swiveled out LCD screen and used LiveView to center and line up the image as well as finding a focus point. That would also help to minimize my time on the road, even if there was no traffic present. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 4 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

From a roadside pullout along Texas State Highway 118 with a view looking north. My thinking in composing this image was to capture a look to a far off point with the highway and center strip as a leading line into the image. By getting down low and also using LiveView with the swiveled-out screen, I was able to capture a more sweeping view across this West Texas landscape. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

This was more of a fun type image to capture and obviously not to license, given the figure present :-) My thinking in composing this image was to take advantage of this long stretch of road present outside of Marathon, Texas, and have Baby Yoda in the center of the road. That road would be the leading line into the image with Santiago Peak off in the distance. I used the swiveled out LCD screen with LiveView to center up and align the image as well as picking a focus point on the figure.

While standing in the center of the highway and a look to the southeast. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 3 and then used the ClearView tool to reduce some of the haze present.

A wider angle view looking to the southeast inside the marked boundary of Denali National Park & Preserve. With another image at this roadside pulloff, I’d pulled in on the focal length to capture a look down the road. Here I pulled back to capture more of the surrounding landscape. While the road is the leading line taking up most of the image, it also creates a sweeping view to slowly bring the viewer into the image. The crossing comes next with the mountain peaks as a distant dream, so to speak, in the haze from the wildfires and late morning sunlight.

"How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home?"

Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone."

The view is looking down the road to the southeast. Given the haze from recent wildfires and the late morning sunlight, much of the mountain peaks present could not be easily seen. So I focused on the road ahead with the crossing markers and guard present on each side. The view would then be directly into the image using the road center stripe as a leading line. The rest of the image was metering it to minimize blowing any highlights while composing and lining up the image before any traffic came near :-)

A conversion to black & white using Silver Efex Pro 2 where I made some adjustments to color filters to bring out a much richer tonal contrast for the final image.

This is at a railroad crossing along the Parks Highway inside the marked boundary of Denali National Park & Preserve.

A roadside pulloff on my way south to Belle Fourche where I'd then head west to enjoy some time in Devil Tower National Monument. What drew me into this image was a combination of a few things along this portion of US Route 85. The highway at this point seemed just so straight ahead with only that slight turn far off in the distance. That was balanced with these amazing formations of clouds above me. They were just billowing as part of a front that was moving through that afternoon, but at this point there was just the whites and the blues in the clouds. For the past few days, I'd been angling my camera slightly downward to minimize the overcast skies. Not today! With this view, I raised angled it upward and allowed for more of the image to include the clouds. Yes, there'd be the road ahead, but it was the clouds that were to guide my way as I drove further into South Dakota.

A roadside stop just outside Mammoth Cave National Park in Brownsville, Kentucky, where I found this one stretch of a country road and was able to stand in the center. In order to minimize time standing like that in the road, I metered to find that mean shutter speed before walking there. I would then only have to focus on composing the image which in my mind was a blend of the farmland and highways next to me with the blue skies and clouds above. The road ahead would then be that leading line to draw the eye into the image.

A wider angle view than the first one captured of this setting in Big Bend National Park near the border of Mexico. I went back and forth from this location trying to capture more of the far off peaks and graveled road but not lose that view through the tunnel up ahead. My thinking was for anyone seeing this image, they'd be drawn to feel the textured surface of the asphalt road with the center lines leading off into the distance through the tunnel. Next they'd want to stand up as if trying to see beyond the hillsides and ridgelines to the distinctive peaks of the Sierra del Carmen.

Captured on the road to Boquillas Canyon. Pico de Cerda is the prominent peak off in the distance in Mexico.

Here I used an Infrared CEP filter to bring out more of a washed out effect I'd read about recently especially with an image's highlights.

I've gotten the idea of this from many an article, but I came across this one just recently that illuminated more of a composition from this perspective (digital-photography-school.com/ants-view-perspective-phot...).