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I love to hang out with Jane as much as she loves to be with me. This evening I got out a new-to-me vintage lens and snapped some low-angle shots of her just being super cute.
A. Schacht Ulm R Travegon 35mm f/3.5 (an allegedly rare "silver" version), wide open.
she cuts through light and shadow like a ship through fog — quiet, unsmiling, unstoppable — a rhythm carved in sun and terrazzo beneath the old porticos.
Pymatuning State Park from Ohio shore overlooking Pennsylvania shore.
Best viewed in dim light.
I used my Bronica SQ-A 250 mm lens on my Canon.
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Shot from 2’ off the ground.
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I've been in Los Angeles now for almost 11 months and with Winter just around the corner, this will likely end up being my first year without snow (unless it starts soon in the mountains) and without an Autumn. People out here insist there is an Autumn though they also think perfect weather is hot, hazy, clear skies. If there was an Autumn, I think I missed it, or at least what I became used to on the East Coast.
To me, Autumn is when the leaves start to change colors and then fall, when damp, crisp overcast days become something you wake up to and the air just feels cleaner. I think it's the best season of the year and while I've seen some more interesting skies and a slight dip in temperatures lately, that's about it. All I see around me and the locations I visit are palm trees and other vegetation that require little to no water. I'm still waiting on some rain without the accompanying winds of last winter but so far it's been dry.
This time last year, I had just decided to pack up and head to California but still was a month or so away from actually leaving. During the end of October through the beginning of December, I spent nearly all my days driving around the countryside with Scotch, searching for streams and waterfalls to shoot. The first place I became very obsessed with and returned to quite often was a waterfall just over the Maryland border in Cumberland Township near Barlow, Pennsylvania. In fact the day I found this place by accident (hoping that Natural Dam Road on my GPS would lead to water), it was just after a storm and the colorful autumn leaves were filling the trees and beginning to fall into the creek below.
While I can't discount how great it was to discover this place initially and the feeling that I had this perfect spot to practice long exposure all to myself, I got bolder and better with each trip back. I got closer and closer to the water with every return and eventually began setting up almost at water level on a little piece of land that jutted out from the shore. Most of the time, I parked my car in a ditch up the embankment to the road and Scotch would hang out in the car while I shot. I was never out of his sight and since it was already getting cold, he didn't mind at all. He was still happy just to go anywhere I'd take him and I generally didn't stay long when he was with me. On the trips I came here alone, I spent a considerable amount of time standing in a few inches of water and taking hundreds of shots as the light faded away. This place also became my main shooting location when the sky was clear since I didn't expect a nice sunset anyway.
For this shot, I was only a foot or so above the water and despite a storm mostly washing away all the colorful autumn leaves, a few stuck around on that giant rock. I guess I didn't get an Autumn this year but that's really one of only a few things I miss about the Washington, DC area. It's been amazing out here so far and I can skip a season, even if it is my favorite one. I spent a few years living in the snow belt in Western Pennsylvania and anytime I feel the need to complain about the sunny, clear, warm days in Southern California, I should think back to the most depressing weather I've ever experienced and be even more fortunate for where I am now :)
WHEN & WHERE
Cumberland Township
Barlow, Pennsylvania
November 1st, 2015
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@81mm
ISO 100
f/19
13 second
ND6 + CPL
Diesel the dachshund and my 5 year old grandson on the bank of the Hudson River at Norrie Point State Park ~ Staatsburg, NY
A recent rainstorm provides a reflection for this handsome EMD SD38-2, which still wears EJ&E paint.
beneath the old streets of munich lies a different world. a place of bright, saturated red. a river of people flows through it, always moving. but for a moment, two of them stop. they are a quiet island of black in an ocean of red, their faces softly illuminated. she holds his arm. he looks down. it is a small, private gesture that no one else notices. a silent conversation in the middle of the noise. the station is a machine for transit, but for this brief second, it is just the perfect, vibrant backdrop for a human story.
Please join us on our journey through Auneland where we show you this unforgettably beautiful country in all its shapes and colors
Ant's eye view of a pesky human thundering by for the Crazy Tuesdays group, challenge: Ant's Eye View.
Happy Crazy Tuesday!
Week 3/52: Get Low
This week is going to be all about low angles. This year, though, is going to be about not trying so hard. Shooting from a low angle, especially with a wide lens, will inevitably produce a good bit of lens distortion. I spent a good bit of time fighting it in Lightroom, before deciding that the best thing to do was embrace it. It's only photography, after all~
When I went to Venice this past Sunday, I ended up with probably the gloomiest day I've seen here that didn't also come with huge winds and torrential storms. This past winter when I first arrived in Los Angeles, it was always overcast or cloudy and there was rain...lots and lots of rain. Some of the storms were incredible with really high winds, torrential rain and I wondered how there could possibly be a drought. Of course I was also here all summer when it was extremely hot and didn't rain for...i don't know...about 5 months? I basically abandoned the searing heat and cloudless skies for indoor AC and portraits of the the aging pup since he didn't want to be outside any more than I did. At least for about the last month, the temperatures finally dropped, "autumn" started or happened--I'm not quite sure. I'm from the East Coast and my idea of autumn is very very different from how it's interpreted here in Los Angeles.
Anyway, Sunday was a lot of fun outside of leaving my bag of extra batteries for the grip in the front seat of my car and a few other distractions/annoyances. I focused primarily on large ocean panoramas, the odd color and even stranger sunset, and of course reflections. However, due to some unusual conditions, I became a bit fascinated with the waves as well. As I said, it had the feel of a day on the verge of a storm but the rain stopped by morning and winds were pretty reasonable. Somehow the result was a mostly gray/blue sky with a few enormous holes where light seeped out, a sunset that was mostly smothered between the clouds, the occasional pink/orange bursts of color somewhere in the sky, bigger waves than normal and still a good low tide area for shooting reflections.
It was relatively dark when I arrived but only because the the clouds blocked most of the light, not because it was late. I skipped the 10 stop ND for nearly all of my shooting and instead, just tried to change up settings when there were shifts in the light caused by the slow moving cloud cover. The waves seemed to rotate from a series of uniform baby waves to much larger ones and I tried to time the shutter release to at least make the current waves interesting. If they were tiny, I'd slow the shutter down to smooth them out and if they were large, I occasionally increased ISO if necessary to get a quicker shutter speed for capturing either detail or right around the time it crests. On many of my long exposures of the sea, I'd adjust the focus on the immediate foreground since it was the only area that had any real detail and then stretch the exposure to eliminate the waves or surf. In the shots I took of the waves, some are focused on the reflective shoreline but I tried hard to focus on the the area just below where most of the waves were cresting since it gave me a split second longer to adjust the lens. It took some effort, but I made tiny adjustments to the focus each time a wave paused briefly until it seemed clear enough. Then I'd fire off shots trying to time them right and hope anything interesting passes through that one really clear area.
For this shot, it was already after sunset and I had to start slowing the shutter just a bit more though I really didn't want to lose all the detail on the wave. As usual, I had my tripod very low to the ground and was zoomed in to focus primarily on the wave. I knew once I lowered the shutter to a second or slower, I'd want to go back to 18mm and shoot some reflections again. I shot a handful of interesting waves but this one was probably the most dramatic result of the set, even if others had more color or more detail in the wave, sky or shore. I haven't gone out to shoot since this night because of the dog's health but I have a lot of images from here to post anyway. I'll provide some updates on him tomorrow if I can. Hope everyone has a great weekend :)
WHEN & WHERE
Venice Beach
Venice, California
October 30th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S18-135mm IS STM
@101mm
ISO 100
f/11
0.3 seconds
I shot this back at the tail end of October on I think my 4th trip to Venice in the previous month. Each of those visits had a very different feel weather and condition wise and this day followed that same pattern. It had felt like it could rain at any moment but didn't, and the weather at the beach was fairly pleasant despite the constant appearance of gray and blue cloves covering nearly the entire sky. It was brighter than it looked since golden sunlight hid just behind the clouds and occasionally would find a hole to pour out of. Winds were calm, waves were well shaped and larger than usual and the shoreline was incredibly reflective.
The day got off to a rocky start when I arrived later than I hoped due--as always--to poor time management and planning. Despite bringing my full bag of batteries for the grip, I neglected to switch the two in the camera before leaving and they died about five minutes after I set up and started shooting. No problem...but I of course left the bag of batteries sitting on the front seat. I ran back to the car very annoyed and managed to get back to my spot in about 10 minutes or so. Further, I was interrupted just before the sun began to set by two people who wanted their photo taken with my camera and they wouldn't budge until I obliged. that alone wasted five minutes of of probably the best conditions on the day. It appeared some sort of filming was going on to my right on the other side of those rocks frequently in my shots and to top things off, there was an large, marginally organized collection of hyper dogs in halloween costumes parading about on the pedestrian path. It was a lot of chaos in the early going but it did settle down after a bit.
There were only a handful of people on the shoreline most of the late afternoon and even with a few extra onlookers at sundown, it emptied out quickly after. The blue and gray clouds slowly darkened and the orangish hues low along the horizon would become hidden or obscured each time a large wave would crash. This is the same sailboat from one of the earlier posts but it's mostly concealed by the wave between us. I rarely focus on boats along the horizon because if I adjust my focus at that level, it often makes the foreground much less detailed and after all, the reflections are the main reason I come here. I did however want to get a few waves separating the blue sky and shore and when I noticed the boat, decided to track it for a minute or two as it sailed to my left.I set the tripod about a foot off the wet sand, adjusted my focus between the waves and horizon and found a shutter speed I liked. I seem to capture a sailboat in the distance every time I come here but they rarely take up more than a few minutes of my time while hoping a nice wave would make one stand out. The waves and reflection were the stars of the night and I was happy that a good amount of shots from this group turned out well. I have about a dozen that have either great waves or the sailboat floating past an interesting part of the sky.
I'm still curious what the view of a good sunset is like out at sea compared to where I set up on the shore but until some rich lady with a yacht decides to make me her handsome travel companion, I'm fine with the view from this spot. Also, sharks are out there and I'm probably delicious.
WHEN & WHERE
Venice Beach
Venice, California
October 30th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@64mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/25th second
CPL