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It's been awhile since I've posted a timelapse. Here is one from the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Preserve in LA over winter break, taken with my iPhone.
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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.
Ant's eye view of a pesky human thundering by for the Crazy Tuesdays group, challenge: Ant's Eye View.
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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