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On Saturdays I like to go for a meditation session at the Upper House at Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. After the session I walked in the bamboo garden. Life is colorful, captured here with a vintage f/0.95 Canon lens, called the Dream Lens.
I processed a vibrant and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, Sony A7 II, _DSC4581_hdr1vib1pai1f.jpg
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Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California, was open at night for cherry blossom viewing in April. It was a a wonderful experience, the drizzling rain contributed to the mystical atmosphere. When I left I passed by a small bamboo garden, where a light casted barcodes on the ground.
I processed a paintery and a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves for one version, then desaturated the result for another version. I welcome and appreciate your critical feedback.
-- ƒ/8.0, 50 mm, 10 sec, ISO 100, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC9042_3_4_hdr3pai5bal1f.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Although we are not religious, in December we like to have an advent wreath with 4 candles on the kitchen table. I took this shot of a burning candle with an ultrafast f/0.85 vintage X-ray lens made by JML Optical. The depth of field is very shallow at about 5 mm. With this, the lights in the backyard form big bokeh bubbles that almost fill the width of the frame. The checkered pattern on the bubbles is from the screen door.
I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/0.85, 64 mm, 1/80 sec, ISO 100, Sony A7 II, JML 64mm f/0.85, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC5666_hdr1bal1pho1b.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2024 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Last month we had a big fondue event by the Peninsula Swiss Club in the Silicon Valley, where we cooked fondue for about 200 people. We also had a book reading by Swiss author Milena Moser, an art exhibition by local artist Victor-Mario Zaballa, and a live band. It looks like we'll have to wait for quite some time for another event.
I took this candid shot of a committee member with a Pentacon AV f2.8 80mm vintage projection lens. It produces a bokeh with small flat bubbles.
I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, desaturated the image, and carefully adjusted the curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/2.8, 80 mm, 1/60 sec, ISO 4000, Sony A7 II, Pentacon AV f2.8 80mm, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC5439_hdr1bal1pho1d.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
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To the east of the Silicon Valley is Sunol Regional Wilderness, a regional park with many oak trees. I followed a narrow road along Welch Creek in the hope to capture some waterfalls. We had some rains in the last few days. Nevertheless, the creek is quite small. Here I captured cascades of waterfalls.
I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, added strong vignetting, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate your critical feedback.
-- ƒ/22, 41 mm, 10 sec, ISO 50, Sony A7 II, FE 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC8756_hdr1bal1pho1f.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
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On Saturdays I like to go for a meditation class at the Upper House at Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. A perfect place to test my new camera and lens: A Sony A7 II full frame camera, and a Rokinon 12mm F2.8 ultra-wide fisheye lens. This lens covers almost 180°.
I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photos from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, Sony A7 II, _DSC0015_hdr1bal1pai1d
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We went to a Yuri Gagarin party at a big mansion in Cupertino. Oh, so much creativity and joy! Here is a candid shot where the imagination can flow.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and selectively adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate your critical feedback.
-- ƒ/1.8, 50 mm, 1/250 sec, ISO 1600, Sony A6000, SEL-50F18, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC5189_hdrj1bal1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
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Tonight we walked Palo Alto, California. I set up the tripod at a street corner, and lo and behold, ghosts appeared!
This is a single exposure I converted into a balanced HDR photo.
HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC4110_hdr1bal1e
Taken during my evening hike at Rancho San Antonio Open Reserve tonight.
Photograph Details -
Nexus 6 - Awesome camera with excellent details in shadow areas. Tends to overexpose. However, if you meter for the highlights (in other words - touch the bright areas in the frame..for example around the sun here)..it does an excellent job.
Post Processing - I used Snapseed 2.0. Lifted Shadows, adjusted ambiance, saturation, selective saturation burn, contrast, and sharpness. All on my mobile device (Nexus 6).
I am really impressed with how tools for photography have become completely mobile. It is scary enough for me to start thinking that DSLR will become obsolete for 80% of my use cases and 100% of a casual photographers use case!
I am planning to do an instructional video for editing using Snapseed.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Google's cafeteria is inside this building. I can't reveal what they served as I signed a non-disclosure agreement to get in...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
It was pretty windy so unfortunately I got a bit of tripod shake so the 3 exposures didn't align perfectly.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Saturday 1:30 a.m. the phone rings in the middle of the night.
Kristopher: "Dude, Zooomr's down."
Me: "Huh, what time is it?"
Kristopher: "It's 1:30 a.m., Zooomr's down, we have to go down to the data center.
Me: "Ugh, dude I'm asleep. I just went to bed 30 minutes ago. I have to be up early this morning to head down to Photowalking with Scoble."
Kristopher: "Yeah man, I know, but Zooomr's down. We have to go down to the data center.
Me: "Ok, I'll be there in 20 minutes."
So I swing by SF, pick up Kristopher and we drive down to our data center at Savvis in Sunnyvale. Grumbling most of the way. Driving is tough.
"Just stay awake!" Kristopher reminds me as I drift out a few times on the way down.
We get to the data center, check in, and Kristopher gets to work.
"Crap," he says, it's worse than I thought. A drive's gone down. More hacking on the computer at the data center. A twitter here and there on my part (I'm pretty useless on these calls except as chaufer).
Finally we fix the problem. Take the bad drive offline. And wrap up at about 5am. As we head out we joke with the guy at the data center about these capsules that you go in and out of at Savvis. They are like something out of star trek. Little phone booth type doorways that seal you off as you go in and out of the data center. Once he said, three guys from Google got stuck in one of them. Another time he tells us that one guy freaked out who was claustrophobic and had a collapse in there. They had to call the paramedics to get him out.
He hands us our IDs back and we say bye. Good night he says. No, good morning, Kristopher laughs back. Ok, now, goodnight, he says back.
And then we get in the car. We drive past this big ass building with Yahoo on it and both laugh. Then Krisopher lays back in the seat to try to sleep while I've got Van Morrison blaring on the radio and I pull out my 5D and snap the photograph above.
My friend Dave Sifry says someday this will be one of those great stories that our employees will love hearing us tell. I sure hope he's right.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
View from Page Mill Road above Palo Alto along my temporary commute route (while my usual route is being cleared of a huge rockslide from the recent rains.) The cluster of tall buildings at the right is downtown San Jose; the white dots at the horizon are Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in the Diablo Range.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets members of Silicon Valley's clean energy community before a roundtable discussion on October 10, 2016, at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley Hotel in East Palo Alto, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with members of Silicon Valley's clean energy community and his State Department staff at the outset of a roundtable discussion on October 10, 2016, at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley Hotel in East Palo Alto, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]