Cow Barn
X100, 35mm, f/2.8, ISO 1250, 1/75.
Chill dude!
X100, 35mm, f/2.8, ISO 1250, 1/120.
Cow Barn Do.
5D Mk II, with 85 f/1.2 @ f/1.8, 1/1000, ISO 1600.
Cow Barn Kid I
5D Mk II, with 85 f/1.2 @ f/1.8, 1/640, ISO 1600.
Cow Barn Kid II
X100, 35mm, f/2.8, ISO 1250, 1/30.
From behind
Swine Barn
X100, 35mm, f/25.6, ISO 1250, 1/50.
Who are the swine men — who can they be?
First of a number from the Maryland State Fair from this evening.
Low light and a low light elevation intrusive background — buried under a Color Efex Pro Midnight filter with the horses masked out. Some additional burning.
5D Mk II, with 85 f/1.2 @ f/1.8, 1/50, ISO 1600.
No strain releif
This guy acted like an owner — the Jerry Jones of the horse pull league.
5D Mk II, with 85 f/1.2 @ f/1.8, 1/160, ISO 1600.
Governance
5D Mk II, with 85 f/1.2 @ f/1.8, 1/250, ISO 1600.
Nothing runs like a Deere
5D Mk II, with 85 f/1.2 @ f/1.8, 1/100, ISO 3200.
Hookin' up
5D Mk II, with 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 @ f/6.3, 1/40, ISO 3200.
The powers that be
from late afternoon. All with the X100.
Strain releif
Broom
Blocakade
Fenestration
Struming
Pagoda in the gloaming
Yet one more elevator — this time cement instead of grain. Fully read in on how they work and completely up to speed on Buffalo.
First attempt with TopazLabs Topaz B&W Effects, pretty much a rip off of Nik's Silver Efex Pro II. Similar controls but the NIK UI is more elegant and the sliders update on the fly rather than when let go — but with the Nik stuff at 6.5x the price there should be some difference. Sky was a somewhat noisy so destructured in Viveza 2 and Glamour Glowed in Color Efex Pro then masked to isolate the effects. Storage bins dodged and burned.
Likely the last of the Sea Cruise posts for a while. Canon 7D, EF 24-70 f/2.8 at 30mm, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 100.
Lazaretto Point Light and Lehigh Cement Elevator - Lower Canton
'Skins visiting the Ravens. First a storm, then sun, then fog or mist or something, snapped 35 minutes before kickoff. Bewtween here and the stadium, Butcher's Hill, Upper Fells Point, Little Italy, the Inner Harbor and Otterbein. 2.2 miles.
Butcher's Hill to M&T Bank Stadium
to Kerry's and Delaware City but actually across the Delaware River in NJ. Snap taken from the Delaware Island excursion boat returning to Delaware City.
Salem/Hope Island Power Plant
Previously overlooked snaps from Kerry's Blacksmith Shop in Delaware City, DE from June of '09. Look terrific printed on Ehibition Fiber with the 4900.
Got Milk?
I'd hammer in the evening...
Nice light
US 160 in the Cuchara Valley between Walsenburg and Alamosa, CO, early April, 2011. Snow and fog. An ususal, high key, look for me. Previously under valued — taken on the fly from the right seat.
At Baked and Wired in G'town. Ghost post — Urban Dictionary required to decode "Get Baked". Ghost distantly related perhaps to Ned, so operating with a 3GS, ergo no Hipstamatic yielding in addition to Baked and Wired cupcakes an upside-down tech cake. Hipstamatic here simulated in Photoshop CS5, not on iPhone4 but on flush Mac Pro with JennieW actions. So go and get baked.
No, not Pretty Boy. Just Floyd, VA. Along the Blue Ridge home to lots of Bluegrass. Taken in May 2006. Posted because it is not a prison snap. Peanut gallery be quelled, SVP.
posted snap with a cat in it. There will likely be plenty of dogs over time — big, sloppy dogs. But cats are not invited — this one only make the cut because it is a fake cat.
Click here to see the Eastern State Pennitentiary gallery or on the sbnap below.
Cellblock Thirteen, Eastern State Pennitentiary, Philadephia, PA. The "Punishment Cellblock" — like the others aren't punishment enough. The camera sees in the dark better than I do so these snapw were pretty much aim it and hope.
It has pretty much much being a printing party since the new Epson 4900 arrived on Thursday, so I though it would be a good idea to curtail the paper consumption with a quick trip to Philly and the Eastern State Pennitenitiary. It has been cloudy and raining for the last couple of days so the light was good low contrast stuff. This is the third visit for me, prior visits were in August 2006 and March 2010. I don't recall having seen Cellblock Thirteen before.
First snap shown taken mounted on the Gitzo, 5D MkII with the 24-70 2.8L at f/8.0, ISO 200 at 24mm with a pair of three shot brackets with +2ev exposure comp applied on the second series, I think, it could have been -2ev on the first bracket. Combined in HDR Efex Pro and finished in Color Efex 3.
As usual there were a lot of snaps, click here or either of the snaps to see the gallery.
Same as above except only one three shot bracket at 60mm.
So Jack called this afternnon to offer kudos on the most recent patent (7,979,303) and we got talking about the B&Ws from the Old Idaho Penn. He liked the snaps but not the venue. I told him I had worse, I almost never take photos of or in a cemetary. I can only think of four times, Arlington National, the Mumma cemetary at Antietam, Oak Hill in Georgetown (from the nearby park) and Congressional Cemetary at Pennsylvania Avenue at the Anacostia in the District. The Congressional shots were taken on my birthday almost 5 years ago and never processed. I guess I didn't much like the results. Mostly maybe becuase I went to get some snaps of the centopaths but I only took 29 snaps total and the centopath snaps were decidely not very compelling. The colors were worse and I was using the 45 TS-E for one of the first times and that didn't work so well either. But...
in the spirt of being a contrarian, they got processed today to show it can always get worse — or at least the venue can. Kinda like the piece in today's NY Times Dealbook about the sentencing proceedings in the Raj Rajaratnam insider trading case. Anyway, four shots from the Congressional Cemetary ca fall 2006, I understand the centopaths have been restored since. All with a fairly heavy dose of the Color Efex 3 Midnight filter.
Lastly, some centopaths — designed by Benjamin Latrobe
Lamont Cranston? Is he related to (Tommy) Lamont DuPont, maybe he is the founder of Cranston, RI or perhaps the patron of Harvard's Lamont Libray or maybe the leader of the band, or the father of the erstwhile CT senatorial candidate or his brother — once of the Hilltop and now of the Circle? Nah, none of these, he is the classic pulp superhero, The Shadow. The Shadow as in "Who know what evil lurks in the heart of men? The Shadow knows!". Five from the dark side of the dark side in the Old Idaho Pennitentiary, Boise, ID — August 2006.
First and last two from a multi-shot brackets on the original 5D, mounted on the Gitzo. Dramatic, like Lamont himself, B&W conversion on top of a mild HDR sandwich.
"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay... The Shadow knows!"
A couple of more
The flagship snap
shopping days until Christmas. Reprocessed snap from in front of the flagship Saks store on Fifth Avenue on Black Friday 2011. Should probably make that trip again in 2012. All with HDR Efex Pro, with darkened, de-structurfed, de-contrasted Granny's Attic preset applied to the background masked off the subject, further finishing with Color Efex 3. Suggested by Nik webinar.
A couple of blocks up Fifth.
The other side of the Avenue.
Rock Center
Remember me to Herald Square!
Been watching a number of Nik Software webinars. I like the results of applying some of thier techniques. One exmaple.
From Eastern State Pennitentiary, March 2010.
The full Nashification monte plus some new techniques from Nik using Silver Efex Pro 2 plus faux Polaroid Transfer plus Texture. From the mid-July Kansas traverse.
Heading back to the Marriott, 6:58AM on the Hertz rental's clock — 91 degrees on the thermometer. It is going be hot here in OKC today. Going to be? It isn't even 7:00AM yet and it is already hot. Reason for the trip isn't until this afternoon so out early for a few sunrise snaps at Stockyard City. The first flight mosly of the Cattlemen's Cafe and Restaurant. (In)famous for its "Lamb Fries".
All with the X100, bracketed, HDR Efex Pro. Click here or on the sanp below for the rest.
and one from Anisquam, MA on Mother's Day 2011
Mr Dan Brown. Mr. Dan Brown please. There is enough symbolism in this shot to be the cover shot on your next book. Snapped this AM at the National Building Museum, lots more to come I suspect. Right to a gallery when they are ready.
Fuji X100, three shot bracket off of 1/30, f/6.4, auto ISO (640, 1250, 2500) and of course at 35mm. Mild HDR with HDR Efex Pro (Odell's Natural Exterior 3).
Click here or on the snap below to see the rest in the gallery.
