Some shots that are less abstract than the close-ups. Once again three shot brackets either f/2.0 or f/8.0, exposure comp to taste, ND filter used with the f/2.0 snaps. All HDR, all with HDR Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro.
Always gotta start with the pedestrian one — including the blown flag...
a snap target favorite of mine, perhaps the most favored of all. All from the B&O Museum parking lot, all with the X100, all three shot brackets, some at f/2.0 some at f/8.0, all processed with HDR Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro. And, yes the ND filter was in play for the f/2.0 shots.
It appears to me that the logo is floating in space above the metal panels. Nice illusion.
X100, three shots bracketed around 1/180, f/2.0. HDR Efex Pro.
first HDR shot with the X100. Image reflects a modern technique and a new instrument and the need to always, no matter what, look forward. No rear view mirrors, just windshields and headlights. Pierce the darkness, overcome the hurdles and the hurdle makers. Onward.
A Berkshire (2-8-4) in the B&O Museum Parking Lot, taken today en-route from Boston via BWI to home. X100, three shots bracketed around 1/120, f/2.0. HDR and Silver Efex Pro.
Hanging out, reading the X100 pdf manual in iBooks on the iPad, pop off an experimental shot or two. Hey, not too bad. From the aerie. A frequent perspective for me.
35mm, ISO 400, 1/40, f/2.0. Silver Efex Pro.
No sense complaining about the equipment fiasco. I like a lot of the Carrie Furnace shots.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 70mm, ISO 800, bracketed off 1/3200. Three shot, Slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application plus some Topaz Adjust and Nik Glamor Glow.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 70mm, ISO 800, bracketed off 1/1250. Three shot, Slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application plus some Topaz Adjust.
Lots of post processing in a not all that sucessfull attempt to make up for a not very technically good snap.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 80mm, ISO 800, bracketed off 1/80. Two shots HDR.
just to keep the blog items for getting too lengthy, see the prior two blog posts for the story. The furnaces are going is going to require another trip in the fall, to make up for the battery fiasco. That visit will have a different strategy, since the tour is not really a tour and tripods are OK, I'll bring the Gitzo and a rented 17 TS-E. This place needs wide, really wide.
Oh yeah, I forgot, I thought I had packed the 17-40 f/4.0L when I got there it turns out I packed the 35 f/1.4L — really clueless morning. Anyway, fast but not really wide, especially on a crop camera like the 10D. Although I guess I could have put it on the 10D, gotten a 50mm equivalent and dropped the ISO. DOF would likely been an issue and frankly given the grittiness of the furnaces the high ISO noise isn't much of a problem.
Yet, I am not unhappy with yesterdays snaps. Thanks to being lucky with the XZ-1 being in the bag, with power and with a card and an old 10D. What could have been nothing but a nine hour drive worked out OK.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 75mm, ISO 800, bracketed off 1/640. Two shots, no way I am good enough to handhold the over exposure steady. Slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, f/2.8, 75mm, ISO 800, bracketed 1/30 and 1/90. As above only two shot. Again slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application.
Canon 10D, 24-70 f/2.8, f/8, 24mm, ISO 400, single shot. Slight (low opacity) Midnight filter application, Topaz adjust, plus the regular stuff.
Read the post just below this, if you already haven't, to hear the reason for the XZ-1 at the Carrie Furnaces. All taken with the EVF and the new productivity enhancing lens cap. Anyway didn't know what to expect under really tough conditions. I think these are stunning snaps — digital cameras have come a long way with these kind of results from a compact, albeit an enthusiast compact.
So what doesn't work so well? Dynamic range. While DSLRs can recover lots of highlights, large sensor compacts cannot, in these dark shots any sunlight coming directly in is completely blown out. Even the passé 10D has a little bit of latitude for highlight recovery. Solution... make sure the framing is is accomplished to reduce the required demand on dynamic rage. The supply just isn't there.
XZ-1, f/2.2, ISO 640, 1/50, 18.2mm (what ever that means). Standard one-shot processing.
XZ-1, f/2.2, ISO 640, 1/50, 18.2mm (what ever that means). Midnight filter in Color Efex 3.
XZ-1, f/2.0, ISO 640, 1/30, 11.8mm (what ever that means). Standard one-shot processing.
XZ-1, f/2.0, ISO 640, 1/50, 6mm (what ever that means). Standard one-shot processing.
XZ-1, f/2.0, ISO 640, 1/25, 6mm (what ever that means). Standard one-shot processing.
From the approach road, a few miles away. The dunes are about 750' high, the white between the clouds and the dunes is blowing sand. Sangre de Christo range in the background. The name, meaning "blood of Christ", is said to come from the red color of the range at some sunrises and sunsets, especially when the mountains are covered with snow.
7D, 24-70mm f/2.8L, ISO 400, f8.0. Three shot HDR.
Bessemer, CO. All with the 7D and 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L , ISO 400, from the West to East Northern Avenue I25 overpass. Most HDR some last one not.
Colorado Fuel and Iron, Bessemer (Pueblo), CO. One of the first shots of a day meandering over a big chunck of Colorado. A warm up for the Carrie Furnace Tour, in Rankin, PA, next Saturday. Snapped from a bridge spanning I25. More, very varied snaps to come from the rest of the day.
7D, 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L, because it happened to be on the camera. Silver Efex Pro B&W conversion. Again a less than stunning downsizing for the blog post.
State Park, south of Franktown, east of Castle Rock and at the very end of the plains.
Most with the 5d Mk II mounting the 24-70 f/2.8L and the 17-40 f/4.0L, the picnic shot with the 7D and the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L.
The east side of the Park, HDR processed
The Lucas Homestead (west side) — not much between here and Kansas actually not much between the front windows and the Mississippi
Tree in front of the Lucas house. This image down sizes horribly
South side of the Lucas house, HDR processed
Picnic on the East side, the tarp is to block the persistent wind. Lots of local knowledge
Washington National Cathedral, Outside: "Master Carver" gargoyle, North Nave, Inside: State Flags, South Nave.
Both two shot HDR sandwich, third was too slow and shaky. Flag snap with 5D Mk II, 35mm f/1.4L @ f/2.0 and ISO 800, gargoyle with 7D, 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L, ISO 100, f/8.0, 380mm (equivalent FF 608mm)
Interesting, passed 10,000 snaps on the 7D (acquired September 2010) and 40,000 (acquired May 2009) on the 5D Mk II yesterday. Aperture library since October 2003 is now over 120,000 snaps.
The physical curve must have been cracking hot yesterday. This image had some cropped off the bottom but the rest is exactly as three handheld shots came from the camera. Framed perfectly, can't recall that happening very often — much less in a handheld sandwich destined bracket.
Rose window, west end of the nave, at the Washington National Cathedral. Yesterday with the 5D Mk II with the 35mm f/1.4L @ f/2.0 and ISO 800. Decided to leave the colors in on this, unlike the last post, because the color is coming from the windows not being adulterated by interior lighting. Otherwise similar recipe of HDR Efex, Exposure 3 faux Velvia 100 and several Color Efex 3 filters.
Complex subject, complex photo, complex processing — some say complex snapper. Ceiling of the Washington National Cathedral. Snapped yesterday. Complex subject speaks for itself, the photo is actually a bracketed three image set. The processing is HDR Efex, Exposure 3 faux Velvia, Silver Efex 2 and bunch of Color Efex 3 effects. The ceiling was a mélange of color casts ergo the B&W conversion but the window color needed to stay, so the windows were painted back in via a mask on the Silver Efex Pro layer with a WACOM tablet.
5D Mk II with 35mm f/1.4L @ f/2.0, ISO 800
Nuanced, shadowy, interior, B&W conversions with split toning.
Snapped in June '09 at Kerry's Blacksmith Shop, corner of William and Clinton (Hah!), Delaware City, DE. Handheld, 17-40mm f/4L @ 40mm, f/4.0, 1/50, ISO 3200! It is very dark in Kerry's.
Vindicator Mine, near Goldfield, CO. October '06, TS-E 45 f/2.8 on the 5D, f/8.0, ISO 400, 1/4 on the Gitzo.
Leadville, CO, Elevation 10,152. Heading to Colorado on Sunday, not likely to break a mile high though. Denver bound again, unfortunately likely Denver tied.
Falcon: 24-70mm f/2.8L mounted on 5D, f/8.0, ISO 400, 55mm, on the Gitzo. Two shot HDR sandwich.
Beatle: 24-70mm f/2.8L mounted on 5D, f/11.0, ISO 400, 51mm, on the Gitzo. Two shot HDR sandwich.
At least it was until I was maybe eleven or twelve. As a kid growing up nearby occasional viewing lanes to Manhattan, probably should have caught on faster. Seen here from the CNJRR ferry slips in Jersey City. Snapped in August '06, early in the day that included the trip to Bethlehem, PA.
Three shot bracket with the 70-200mm f/2.8L mounted on the 5D at 80mm, f/16 and ISO 100. HDR Efex.
Almost post time for the Masters on TV — last post for the day on the blog. No particular reason other than I like the snaps.
The Capitol Limited, B&O Museum, December '09. 5D Mk II, 85mm f/1.2L II @ f/4.0, ISO 1250, 1/125 (upper) and 1/800 (lower). Single images with HDR Efex.
Think they have HD?
West Main Street, Tucumcari, NM, August '09. %D Mk II, 24-70 f/2.8L @ f/8, 27mm, ISO 400, 1/50. Single image HDR Efex.
