Shot April with a Canon 10D, post processed with HDR EFex and Silver Efex Pro II. Old bottle new win, something like that. The 10D pressed into service after the 5D Mk II and 7D battery fiasco. Anyway a two shot HD at Carrie Furnace in Rankin. Was a three shot attempt but the bright one is blurred was at 1/6 of a second. ISO 800, f2.8 with 70 - 200 IS @ 70mm.
can remember what I did to this. The same recipe as the pier, plus creme anglaise, plus Snap 2 oil, medium brush, with the saturation pushed and then Nix Color Efex Pro, Contrast Color Range, then Tonal Contrast, then bumped the canvas by 10% all the way around. I really like the results.
I continue to want to move away from excruciatingly "sharp" images. Textures appear to be one way to accomplish it. Going to take a while to get it, for the moment using recipes. This is a redo of the OOB pier shot from mid-June.
The Flypaper Textures recipe:
Burnished Clay - Overlay @ 100%
Lime Plaster - Multiply @ 73% flipped vertically
Labyrinth - Overlay @ 100% Desaturated
Stygian tin - Soft Light @ 100% Desaturated with bottom brushed away.
Lime Plaster - Multiplied @ 55% flipped vertically
Nuriel Clouds - Soft Light @ 100% Desaturated
Nuriel Clouds - color @ 21% Desaturated
Trying some new techniques, shot from Dumbarton Oaks, March, 2006. Mirrored in CS5, multiple Flypaper textures, frame with Silver Efex Pro 2.
Eastern State Penitentiary, Philly, August 2006. With the Canon 5D, five shot HDR, HDR Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro 2.
Snap from just about a year ago, in Marblehead, MA. Taken with the now trickled down GF-1. Post Processing with Topaz Adjust, Viveza 2, Snap2 and Silver Efex Pro II.
So... the SO, perhaps in honor of National Flip-Flop Day, that being neatly attached behind Bloom's Day, bestowed upon me last night, somewhat belatedly in relation to their actual date of acquisition, a pair of flip-flops, from Vineyard Vines no less, or maybe that should be of course. For a sexagenarian, recieving his first pair ever, this brings back pre-denarian memories of the first pair of ice skates and an equal measure, exacerbated and exponentiated by decades of risk management, of fear of an ER visit in the offing. A Bloom's Day, Duke Street stop in at Davy Byrnes and a couple of pints would certainly increase the odds.
Well, the web-world does not need to witness the photo taken to memorialize this event, so instead, I offer, an analogous snap, featuring other footgear diversification, taken on Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of the Newseum, last weekend. Done up in SilverEfex Pro's Film Noir preset. Now that make me feel artsy — as if flip-flops weren't enuf of a paradigm shift. X100, after being Film Noired — the settings don't much matter.
arrived just in time for the NCAA LAX final at M&T stadium, pretty much in the center of the snap. Taken right at game time.
X100, f/4.0, ISO 200, three handheld shots bracketed around 1/300, ND Filter.
from Veranda #4. Different approach for this one though — 5d Mk II, in portrait orientation with RRS L Bracket on the floor. Three shot exposure bracket around 1/60 @ f/16.0 and 17mm with the 17-40mm f/4L. HDR Efex and Silver Efex. Basically something to do between the LAX games and the Colonial going on. Bit of a dilemma in the the last LAX quarter finals — why can't both Duke and ND lose?
on the N.S. Savannah, the first and only nuclear powered US Merchant Vessel. Berthed at Pier 13 in the Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore Harbor. Built in the '50s and filled with a lot of period artifacts, which I found as much or more interesting than the ship itself. All with X100, a number of shots didn't work out as I am not completely comfortable with the camera yet and conditions were generally really dark inside and really bright outside. Almost all were taken bracketed, although because of the wind the outside shots were generally processed as a single image, the inside ones are all done generally as strong HDRs to emphasize the period.
First, and maybe a little reminiscent of the Eastern State Penitentiary barber chair, Beauty shop I.
Beauty shop II
Dining room I
Dining room II
Main Galley I
Main Galley II
Hospital
Officer's mess
Passenger stateroom
Crew ladder
Engine room with the Control room beyond
On the Bridge
Gotta love the idea of sailing around in a nuke with a bunch of electro-mechanical controls and filling up those gigantic ashtrays with one pack of Lucky's after another. Maybe this wine was a little before its time
So this is a better prepped pano. 5D Mk II, 45mm TS-E with some plus shift applied. Thirty nine shots, thirteen frames each bracketed with three images then combined using HDR Efex pro. Stitching in Photoshop CS5 as Panorama Factory kept running out of memory. This thing is big, just under 7' x 1.5' — I wonder if I will ever try to print it, I could and then what. The mounting fees would be astronomical.
Anyway, Canon 5D Mk II, 45mm TS-E, HDR Efex, CS5 Photomerge and the usual Nashification recipe. The B&W Version via Silver Efex Pro.
Haven't tried one of these in ages. A real quick attempt with the X100 @ f/8.0 and ISO 200, unfortunately I can only reliably clamp the X100 to the Gitzo in landscape mode, not portrait. Six stitched images, each a three shot HDR bracket. Some stitching problems with some ghosting in the distant buildings. Will try again with the 5D Mk II, with a RRS L Bracket, in portrait orientation with the 45mm TS-E. I suspect that will be without any stitching problems. Panorama creation using Panorama Factory from Smoky City Software. Actual size at 300 dpi is 47 x 8.25". Lacks height, that is why portrait orientation for the next one.
which killed the golf playoff on DirecTv. The light was changing fast, thirteen minutes between the upper and lower snaps.
X100 again, three shot bracket around 1/40, ISO 1600 @ f/8.0, HDR Efex Pro.
I presume a pre and post seasonal sport in Boston's Public Garden. Evidently kids like it — every fountain had a bunch of them in it.
X100, Silver Efex Pro, f/8.0 @ISO 400, shutter speeds 1/320 or faster.
A week or so ago, right after the X100 first arrived, I popped off and posted a shot from the fourth floor front (see Reading the book). I liked the snap but it was somewhat mis-framed. So, I went ahead and tried to get it framed right. Think I have it with this. Do need to yank that print and replace it with something of mine.
X100, three shot bracket, HDR Efex and Silver Efex Pro.
that are generally closed right where I am standing to take this snap. On the way back from DC yesterday, I noticed they were open — I noticed because someone was taking a similar shot. On the way to Lowes on a paint buying spree this AM, they were still open and someone else was taking the same shot. On the way back from Lowes, I got over my reluctance to be a copy cat, and took a three shot series.
This, the USNS Fisher is one of three (was four not too long ago) similar Military Sea Lift Command Ships berthed in Baltimore. There were two berthed side by side here on Clinton Street. There still are two at Locust Point, although I think they all shifted positions when the fourth departed. There are 11 of these Bob Hope-class Roll-On, Roll-Off vehicle cargo ships. More info here.
X100 bracketed around 1/125, ISO 400, f/8.0. HDR Efex Pro and the normal Color Efex Pro Nashification.
Apparently some flags in Baltimore have 13 not 50 stars, this one is in Patterson Park. Oooops, I guess not, according to Wikipedia, the Baltimore flag is 15 stripes and 15 stars, which was the flag in 1812. I guess I am going to have to count them. In any case, the snap was taken through the window from the fourth floor front as Friday the 13th, 2011 winds down. That 15 star thing kinda of blows the raison d´être for the image — well maybe it will have 13 stripes.
X100, f2.0, ISO 3200 at 1/17. Silver Efex Pro 2 Selective Color.
no Lena Horne, just some late crummy wether rolling in, in the late afternoon. Shot from veranda #4, with the X100 and the wrong aperture at f/2.0 producing the out-of-focus condition on the railing. Three shot HDR sandwiches.
Just for fun and to see if the new 16GB SanDisk Extreme Pro 45MB/s is better than the 8GB SanDisk Extreme 30MB/s card. Seems like it dumps the three bracketed RAW + jpeg images a bit faster.
like the middle child or Goldilock's porridge, not so far not so close — just somewhere in the middle.
Once again all with the x100 @ f/5.6, I think, three shot and pretty aggressive HDR. The yellow ones the side of a caboose the green from a box car. All from the B&O Museum parking lot.
