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Panorama of the Eiffel Tower
This was quite an interesting idea of me. There are thousands of photos on the internet of the Eiffel tower taken frontally. So I had this idea to flip my camera 45° from its vertical position to create an interesting angle of the tower. But in order to fit in the whole construction from its foot to the top, there was no other way but to shoot it in 3 steps.
The 3 photos where then merged together in Photoshop.
Personally I believe it worked out well.
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American bullfrog. Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Here's another 2 shot panorama from my last visit to Venice Beach when huge gray and blue clouds smothered most of the skyline over the Pacific. I've written a lot about the day I had there and will try not to repeat too many things but there's always that chance haha. I took about 360 shots on the day covering the hour before sunset until about an hour after and so far I've tried to mix up the posts to show all the different aspects I saw while there. There's been some examples of the waves, the reflections, the dark sky with patches of incredibly bright sunlight pouring through, a few 2-4 shot panoramas and some color in the opposite directions but I guess this is the first post that shows the tiny strip of sunset I've described briefly.
When I was driving there, I fully expected cloudy conditions since the view outside the windshield is the same I'd eventually see at Venice. When I leave the apartment, I can see bits of sky in all directions from around Sunset Blvd and in the event I have time to choose my destination, I'll pull up the street view GPS and see if any locations I've visited head in the direction of the most interesting clouds or color. On this day however, I made up my mind to go to Venice. The only question would be whether the sky would allow any color to come through. For the most part, the answer was no and generally, all the photos I shot are primarily blue or gray from the heavy cloud cover.
The reflections were pretty amazing even though I expected the tide to be higher from some of the rain the few days prior and the waves were fairly impressive. It seems that when I'm here on the flat, straight shore, my default is becoming panoramas even though there's less margin for error and more work to get them to fit. I can get so close to the water and the view between the pier and the the rocks by the lifeguard headquarters is completely unobstructed, so it always feels like even 18mm from that close doesn't get the full feel of what I'm seeing with my own eyes. I think I prefer 2 frames at 18mm since it's easier to get the perspective right but I can pull off 3 frames if I crop a bit at the ends. There's always this weird optical illusion to me that the horizon is crooked mainly because the surf isn't always exactly parallel to it and this shot to some degree shows that. The horizon is straight and the angle of the breaking waves broke left to right leaving it slightly askew.
I still have a lot of interesting shots and views to show from here but I will try to mix in some other, less gloomy captures from elsewhere and also some new panoramas of downtown LA from different much different angles than I've done in the past. Oh, and of course I'll still be giving you the occasional Scotch portrait as he continues to mend from his surgery. Today started badly with us waiting at the vet for it to open but since getting back around 10AM, he's been feeling well, is happy and about as quiet as I can remember since he was 11 or so. I'm still really optimistic that the surgery will be a success and can't wait to remove the sutures in about 2 weeks and let him get back to the activities he used to love and that kept him young for so many years :)
WHEN & WHERE
Venice Beach
Venice, California
October 30th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
2 shot panorama
ISO 100
f/9
1/13th second
CPL
Sad to see Mexico go out despite that great second half performance
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Shadowtime
I have so many heron pictures lol. Found 3 separate herons this past Saturday. I particularly liked the background foliage in these ones.
Cape Bojeador Lighthouse, also known as Burgos Lighthouse, is a cultural heritage structure in Burgos, Ilocos Norte, that was established during the Spanish Colonial period in the Philippines. It was first lit on March 30, 1892, and is set high on Vigia de Nagpartian Hill overlooking the scenic Cape Bojeador where early galleons used to sail by. After over 100 years, it still functions as a welcoming beacon to the international ships that enter the Philippine Archipelago from the north and guide them safely away from the rocky coast of the town.
Anytime the weather called for clouds over the summer, I tried to make sure I was able to at least go somewhere with an open west facing view to snap some shots. I learned quickly that the [non-sunny] weather forecasts are almost always wrong around Los Angeles. When you look at a 10 day forecast and it's entirely sunny during that time, an occasional cloud will sneak in here and there but generally, summer in LA is dry, sunny and hazy or clear. On the rare chance the forecast calls for cloudy skies, at least 2/3 times ends in a disappointingly clear sky.
I've driven to Venice 6 times in the previous month, each time with the promise of clouds in the forecast. The skyline I see when driving the hour to Venice is basically the same skyline I should expect to see once there and yet only half of those 6 trips resulted in a cloudy sky. It almost feels like weather reports are taunting me because it might say cloudy with the only break being the hour surrounding sundown or the forecast will say cloudy and yet 45 minutes into the drive, I'll realize that the report is incorrect. I trust my eyes now more than any forecast and one of the biggest advantages of Venice for me is that it's the only place I visit that gives me a full preview of the sky from the start to end of my trip.
Of course the one aspect of weather that is easier to accurate report is tide and height of the waves. While it seems almost every day has some warning of larger than "normal" surf, I typically ignore it since my main focus is the sky. When I headed to Venice last Saturday, the forecast was calling for 10 straight days of clear and sunny beginning the following day so I decided to go, despite turning around the previous 2 trips due to blank skies. I was hoping for something colorful and another opportunity to shoot reflections on what I consider a perfect shoreline for them. Due to traffic and Saturday parking issues at Venice, I arrived on the beach about 5 minutes before the sun dipped below the clouds and horizon. Wind was relatively high compared to previous trips and the low tide I had almost come to expect was replaced with high surf and a hide tide. The normally reflective, flat shoreline was now a duller, kinda muddy version that was also maybe 60ft shorter than normal.
I did get the clouds I wanted which was a plus, but I also wanted the reflections and a bit more time to shoot the setting sun. I basically had enough time to set up quickly, and get a few shots of the sun as it cut through that cloud in the middle. I normally adjust my focus on the reflective shoreline but with so little non moving surface area, I decided to follow this bird around and focus on him when he'd pause or wander into the frame. Generally, I never focus the lens on the sky anymore because there’s not much to latch focus on and I’d much rather have a detailed foreground that a marginally more detailed sky but no foreground definition. Skies like this at least offer me enough ambient light after the sun sets that I still can get some lower light shots in but I ended up driving more than an hour in traffic, with 15 minutes to find a semi legal parking space and an hour back for 10 minutes of nice shooting conditions of shooting which bummed me out a bit. I'm going to force myself next time the weather is favorable to arrive much earlier and perhaps the next time there's a high tide, I'll pick a location where the waves will work in my favor rather than against. I'll also be sure to check the surf forecast before taking Scotch here since the flat shoreline is the sole reason I want to bring him (well and lack of people after dark).
WHERE & WHEN
Venice Beach
Venice, California
October 15th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S18-135mm IS STM
@62mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/25th second
CPL
A pair of WSOR EMD SD40-2s grind northbound up the grade with train no. 463 headed for Reedsburg, WI.
in the second view I have placed more sand texture in foreground. Further the mountain range has increased the cloudy cover.
Stokksnes is a headland on the southeastern Icelandic coast, near Hofn and Hornafjördur. This photo was taken during a sunset in Stokksnes , one of my favorite locations for coastal photography along the south east coast of Iceland. A stiched use of my 18mm gives this view of an ultra wide lens.
Olympus E-M10 MarkII with Pentacon 50 mm 1.8, manual focus, handheld. March 2018, Regensburg, Germany.
I spent most of the sunny, cloudless summer focusing more on portraits of my Scotch and spending time with him out of the heat. The few times I ventured out with the promise of clouds in the forecast left me mostly disappointed and confused by how weather works apparently. I often look up weather history when I post photos to help me both remember conditions a bit better and explain why I chose to shoot the way I did and often the conditions I see when I shoot are vastly different in the weather history for that exact location and time. It's odd to me that some of the most impressive skies I saw last winter say "clear" or "mostly clear" in the history. I'm equally confused when I go to a location listed as cloudy and see nothing but bright, clear skies overhead.
In any event, the forecast this past monday and tuesday called for overcast skies for the first time in about 2 months so I was deturmined to go somewhere to shoot what I hoped would be an interesting sunset and shake off the summer rust. I got a late start to Malibu Pier Monday due to my own poor time management and unpredictable traffic on my route, I arrived the Pier just after what would have been the sunset. I was able to follow the gray overcast skies as soon as I got onto the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica but there was absolutely no color and no sign of any potential sunset. The clouds were smothering the entire horizon.
The pier--like so many of my previous trips--was virtually empty with only a few people wandering down in while I was there. The gray skies turned blue with the night and it was extremely difficult to see beyond the pier. The only ambient light I could see were from the lamps that lit up the pier and I actually wasn't quite sure what the clouds looked like until I got home and bumped up the brightness a bit. This is also not the first time I've seen multi colored reflections from those lights even though they really don't seem all that different when you look at the source. I don't know if they adjust the bulbs to be like this but I've definitely taken shots that are a lot more consistent in the reflection colors as well as ones that look like this.
I'll admit I didn't stay long because of the extremely dark sky and what seemed like abnormal light saturation coming from the pier on most of my long exposures and went home pretty disappointed. I didn't even take quicker shutter shots as a base for color and once I got home and saw how the clouds looked, I was disappointed I didn't stay longer. I guess that's part of the process and learning experience but I'm glad that fall is finally here and the skies will be full and colorful again soon. If this had been back in June or so and I knew it would be weeks or months between cloudy days, I'd be much more annoyed by the short visit and long roundtrip.
The limited cloudy days--including this shoot and the following day--made it really difficult to choose a location since I really only had one shot at a good pick. I couldn't exactly head to Venice for the sunset and then get over to Malibu if the conditions weren't to my liking and I chose Malibu because of the ease of access, the familiarity and my love of this pier. If it was feasible, I'd love to create an app that uses drone footage to give live updates on crowds at touristy places. I'd love to know if Venice is less crowded than Huntington Beach for example at a particular time so i could factor that into my location choice. It's easy to find surf and tide information online, weather information on my phone and driving traffic from my car but how crowded these locations actually are is out of control it seems and a few times the extra 20 minutes to park and find a clean, open spot on the beach have been the difference between sunset and dusk.
Malibu Pier
Malibu, California
September 12th, 2016
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@24mm
ISO 100
f/8
33 seconds
Another shot taken at a recent visit to Charlestown beach. We arrived just before the high tide would have cut off the beach. Sadly, the historic harbour is currently undergoing major reconstruction or renovation and was not fully accessible.
This little hedgehog traveled alongside me by the boardwalk for a while, so I decided to capture the moment. On a grey and windy day, there wasn't much else to photograph, but this encounter made it all worthwhile.
I weathered this USA Trains model of a 50' double-door boxcar. I think this will fit right in with a Penn Central or early Conrail freight train.
Fujifilm X-T20
XF 56mm/f1.2
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For a few months now I’ve been engaged on a project in conjunction with a school to produce for them a series of images, and wall art, of their school grounds and building throughout the seasons. Amongst the ones I just delivered last week, from the winter season, is this multi-shot vertical panorama, taken as a series of four images and stitched together in Lightroom and finalised in Photoshop.
I wanted a very low view point to emphasise the building’s angles, and the logo painted on the drive. Knowing that there would be some distortion to deal with in post, due to the wide angle lens and low view, I decided to use the Hi Res Mode on my Olympus to get as many pixels as I could to cater for those that I would ultimately lose in the correction.
The final wall art image was 40 x 20 inches, which was more or less the final stitched image's native size.
Another example of getting more out of. small sensor!
Olympus EM1 Mk2 (Hi Res Mode)
Panasonic Leica 8-18
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Taken from a lower angle, while sitting on the beach. I missed most of the action, but managed to get this one.
The subtle lift of a wing and the delicate break of ice reveal winter’s artistry, as a Gadwall moves through the marsh like a living sculpture shaped by the cold.
This shot was aimed to test the sun burst effect of Fuijifilm X-T1. It works out great and beautifully.
只是想測試一下Fujifilm 的日芒是否漂亮，紫陽花配上日芒還蠻搭的。
～ Chishakuin, Kyoto, Japan
智積院, 京都, 日本
- ISO 3200, F20, 1/750, 55mm
- Fujifilm X-T1 with 18-55mm F2.8-4
- Sunset @ 5.14pm (300º) / Shot @ 3.53pm
- Visibility 20 km @ 3.00pm/ Humidity 55% @ 3.50pm
Jane is in love with the warmer spring weather we are experiencing and the back porch, with all of the glass windows, is the best place to be if you are a cat.
Vivitar MC 28mm f/2.8 Ai-S
A piping plover scours the sandy shores of Cayo Ensenachos in the early morning light looking for food.
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