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We were invited to a wine tasting party at a Swiss friend's home in San Jose, California. We also enjoyed Tête de Moine, a yummy semi-hard Swiss Alpine cheese they brought back from Switzerland, literally translated to monk's head. Here is host Martin taken with the vintage Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens".
I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photos from a JPG exposure, merged them, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- Æ’/1.2, 50 mm, 1/125 sec, ISO 1600, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens", HDR, 1 JPG exposure, _DSC2260_hdrj1bal1pho1d.jpg
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On exceptionally clear days, you can see all the way to Paris
Contax S2 // Carl Zeiss 45mm f/2.8 Tessar (pancake) // Lomography Babylon 13
I owe this camera a blog post and proper write-up. Louie here sold it to me last summer (for a very nice price) and it is an amazing piece of machinery, really the height of those 80s SLRs.
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]
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...
It was pretty windy so unfortunately I got a bit of tripod shake so the 3 exposures didn't align perfectly.
In the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose, California.
Superia 800 in a Canon Elan IIe with an EF 50mm f/1.2L lens.
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]
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]
Bronte Barratt before the women's 200 freestyle at the Santa Clara Grand Prix. For publication rights, contact JD Lasica at jdlasica@gmail.com.
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]
The spaceship has landed... and it's in Sunnyvale. Long-time valley residents will recall that the Bank of the West at 380 South Mathilda used to be a First National Bank. The building, designed by architect Melvin A. Rojko, was constructed in 1962 and opened in 1963. There used to be four drive-in teller windows positioned around the circumference of the bank, much like a drive-in restaurant.