Bay Area, California

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Last weekend I joined a South Bay Photography meetup at the Shoreline Park in Mountain View, California. There is a salt pond with a boat rental. This bunch of bananas caught my eyes.

I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from three RAW exposures, merged them selectively, and carefully pulled the curves to pop the scene.

-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC4538_9_0_hdr3bal1pai1g

Our son gave us a tour of the Mechanical Engineering School at the Stanford University in California. The campus has many interesting buildings; I love the one-point perspective here.

I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photos from two RAW exposures, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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-- ƒ/8.0, 50 mm, 1/10, 1/45 sec, ISO 100, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens", HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC2165_6_hdr2bal1pho1e.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

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Tonight I went to downtown San Jose, California. It was the closing night of the Sonic Runway art display, located in front of the city hall. The Sonic Runway (bit.ly/2GhhWRH) is a corridor of lights that visualizes the speed of sound. The installation consists of a series of concentric rings, each lined with 277 addressable LEDs. Live audio input is analyzed and converted into a variety of intricate patterns that race down the corridor at the speed of sound (about 343 m/sec). Standing at the front of the Runway, you can see the beats of the music rippling away from you.

I went to the side of the runway where the water fountain is and took this shot over the water with the Dream Lens to get these bubbles and reflections.

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted the color balance and the curves. I welcome and appreciate your critical feedback.

-- ƒ/0.95, 50 mm, 1/60 sec, ISO 400, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC8507_hdr1bal1e.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

Leica M3 // Ektar

Love soaking in the evening light and beautiful fall foliage in the local neighborhood.

On October 10 I went to a business meetup organized by the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco. On that day Earth was subjected to strong solar winds, which caused auroras way into the continental USA. After the event I drove along the Skyline Boulevard, a road that follows the ridge of the hills that separate the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. After taking some shots of the aurora, I drove home and stopped by Alice's restaurant on the Skyline Boulevard, a popular hangout for motor cyclists at daytime.

I processed a balanced, a paintery, and a photographic HDR photo from four RAW exposures, blended them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image by 95%. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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-- ƒ/4.0, 50 mm, 0.3, 4, 10, 30 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens", HDR, 4 RAW exposures, _DSC4403_4_5_6_hdr4bal1pai5pho1i.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2024 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

Last night I went to a geek party at the backyard in the Silicon Valley, California. The owner had a set of oil lamps in a fire pit that gave a warm light in the cool evening.

I processed a balanced and a realistic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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-- ƒ/0.95, 50 mm, 1/250 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens", HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC5023_hdr1bal1rea1j.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2024 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

So much for that idea... San Jose, California

Sigma dp2 Quattro / TIffen 15 Deep Yellow filter

Google bicycles, colorful. Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area

Next to San Jose is a small town called Alviso, located at the San Francisco Bay in California. I saw clouds in the sky, so I drove to the Alviso Marina County Park for sunset. There are salt ponds with slat pillars that form an interesting pattern.

I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.

-- ƒ/8.0, 50 mm, 1/200 sec, ISO 800, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens", HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC3305_hdr1bal1pho1h.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2023 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

Fun day with my dear friendz , Ramesh , Kiran & Sachin. We headed to pacifica pier to shoot sunset and high tide scrwed up all the plans. Returned to treasure island for this :)

Simple 5 shot panoroma using CS6 . Glad that i am getting back to some weekend shooting now :) & no more hugin.sourceforge.net hacks for Panos :)

Hiker's view from the start

Fun night with some dear y! photgs @Pinnacle National Park

photopainting

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.

Seen from near the Mt. Um cube

Apple - Cupertino

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...

photopainting

palo alto, calif.

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies 8,180 acres (3,310 hectares), among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students.

Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford—a railroad magnate who served as the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California—and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever aged 15 the previous yea

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It was pretty windy so unfortunately I got a bit of tripod shake so the 3 exposures didn't align perfectly.

This photo was a pain in the ass to color correct, by the way. I'm still not really happy with it.

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]

@ Googleplex, California

This is Doug Engelbart's old office in SRI International.

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]

Yahoo!

just another up your trunk shot. View On Black

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]