Out in the neighborhood with X100, late afternoon, on Sunday of the long Memorial Day weekend. Only two here one landscape orientation the other portrait, Links to the rest in two galleries segregated by orientation. All with the X100, ISO 800, most at f/4.0.
The Landscape anchor, for more click here or on the snap.
And the portrait anchor, for these click here or on the snap.
X100, ISO 200, f/2.0, 1/1000, ND Filter, -1.33ev.
X100, f/4.0, ND Filter, 1/170, ISO 200.
The National Mall fallback, the NGA — take snaps of people who think the snaps are of the art. All with the X100, ISO 3200, mostly f/2.0 and f/2.8. Some days only the device clicks. Hah!
Corner of Pennsylvania and Fourth Street. X100, ISO 200, f/2.0, 1/1000, -1.33ev.
right here? National Sculpture Garden. X100, ISO 200, -1.33ev, 1/1000, f/2.0.
Memorial Day weekend 2009. Appropriately scanning the sky at the sound of a helicopter — at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial. Probably will be some similar snaps this weekend.
70-200mm f/2.8L +1.4x on the 5D Mk II. 2800 mm, ISO 200, f/4.0, 1/640.
May 2005, Death Valley, CA. I saw some Death Valley shots on the web and recalled several days of my own in Death Valley en-route to a firm Partner Retreat in Lake Las Vegas, NV.
The first shot is from Furnace Creek, late in the afternoon of the first day. Shot with the same 24.0-70.0 f/2.8 I still have but mounted on the now trickled-down Canon 10D. f/16 at .5 seconds, 62mm, ISO 100 on the still in use Gitzo with the RRS ball head. Post processed with the current Nashification recipe.
The bank in Ryholite, NV, on the way to Lake Las Vegas. Looks the same as everyone else's photo of this building. Also shot with the same 24.0-70.0 f/2.8 on the Canon 10D, f/16 at 1/20 seconds, 50mm, ISO 100 and post processed with the current Nashification recipe.
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?
Some snaps around the N.S. Savannah and the National Maritime Day proceedings. X100 all, mostly single shot here for the exterior, while the prior post is all HDR for the N.S. Savannah interior.
Baltimore City Fire Department Fireboat "John R. Frazier"
N.S Savannah I
N.S Savannah II
Bow and the gypsum factory
Stern
Lots of lines
Pride of Baltimore. The gray ball floating in between the stays is the nose of the Goodyear Blimp, in town for the running of The Preakness
Damn the torpedoes
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
After a week of pretty rainy weather, apparently worse further up the east coast, Saturday dawned rather brightly over the harbor. This snap from about 6:35AM a precursor to what is forecasted to be a pretty nice day. This has to mark the last post of a Veranda # 4 shot for a while — more than a little repetitive over the last few days. Perhaps due to the lack of mobility from being somewhat under the weather.
It is National Maritime Day and the N.S. Savannah is open for tours today, so that will occupy at least part of the middle of the day. Snaps latter.
X100, three shot bracket, HDR Efex.
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.
