Still 2006 but this time October — Victor and surroundings.
American Eagles Mine overlooking Victor, Canon 5D, 45 TS-E f/2.8 at f/4,0, ISO 400, 1/5.
In town Victor, Canon 5D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS at f/2.8, ISO 400, 1/800, 200mm.
Last one from Victor for now, Canon 5D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS at f/9.0, ISO 100, 1/160, 73mm.
After the storm, Leadville, CO. Altitude, two miles high. Attitude, well that is another story. Geographically, 40 miles from Vail, 60 miles from Aspen, nevertheless nowhere close to either.
Canon 5D, 24-70mm f/2.8L, f/8.0, 45mm, ISO 400, 1/160.
This one from before the storm. Canon 5D, 24-70mm f/2.8L, f/20.0, 54mm, ISO 100, 1/40. Diffraction, what diffraction. Who knows why it was f/20.0. Obviously on the Gitzo.
Oregon. In January, in 2005, in the rain — what else in Oregon west of the Cascades in winter. Strawberry fields with "whips" to hold the bushes, I think I recall Tim telling me. Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, ISO 200, f/4.0 at 105mm. The island lies at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette.
Dodge Truck, Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, ISO 200, f/2.8 at 95mm, 1/125.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, ISO 200, f/4.5 at 200mm, 1/125.
Canon 10D, 70-200 f/2.8 IS, ISO 200, f/8.0 at 70mm, 1/30.
Just west of Mullen (known for two great golf courses) in the Nebraska Sand Hills. BNSF coal train heading empty to the Powder Ridge Basin in Wyoming. Not the same route but inspiration by John McPhee's Coal Train, in Uncommon Carriers. Canon 5D, 17-40mm f/4L, ISO 320, f/8.0, 1/400, 40mm.
And just a little further west on NE Route 2. Still the 5D and the 17-40. This time at 36mm, ISO 50, f/22, with a shutter speed of 1/3 of a second. There may have been a polarizer mounted to help get the effect. These days it would have been the Singh-Ray Vari-ND, to reduce the light, slow the shutter speed and get the blades smoothed out.
on the Eastern Shore, in Newark just south of Berlin, just off US 113. Famous for its railroad station, went there for that, also took this, prefer this to that. Canon 5D MK II, 24-70mm f/2.8L, 60mm, ISO 100, f/8.0, 1/25. Silver Efex Pro II.
Seems like you can't hail from DC, MD, VA without having a shot of this groin on your web site or blog. Here is mine. Taken at the end of March 2009, just prior to the 5D Mk II arrival. 24-70 2.8L at f/8.0, ISO 800, 64mm at 1/3200. Guess I wanted to make sure to stop the action.
So, there is a link on Tony Sweet's blog that points to John Barclay's blog, where a another link points to Chuck Kimmerly's web site. Wow! Plains, prairie and the stuff that sits on them. All in black and white. Off in another direction, again. My most lauded shot, here redone with an easier hand.
July 1st, 2006. On route to Colorado and the Vail Shootout via Crawford, NE. Topaz Adjust 4 and Silver Efex Pro II. Odd settings but it was late in a long day, probably was supposed to be f/8.0. Canon 5D, 70-200 2.8 IS @ 70mm, ISO 400 f/10.0, 1/400.
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.
Old Orchard Beach on a not very nice day in mid June. The "Carnival" is apparently open only on weekends, at least this early in the season and parkas were more appropriate and more in evidence than bathing suits. Cloudy and cold — empty streets, empty beach. The rest in the gallery, click here or the snap below to see. All with the X100.
Better know for its big attraction — The Portland Head Light. On Cape Elizabeth, south of Portland. A typical port protection artillery battery that also happens to host a great looking lighthouse, a rocky shore and view to the Rams Head Lighthouse in the distance. Click here or on the snap below to see the gallery with the rest.
All from the Fuji X100. The all over the place white balances are the result of the clouds and my adjustment approach not the camera. Some were done on the Mac Book Air some on the Mac Pro, different days different outlooks, whatever – so they just turned out different.
Long, long time ago... But right here is where I first met Messers Weber and Lowe all of us rising frosh at St. Iggy's, just at the top of the stairs. I haven't been there since December of 1963 and since the indoor-outsoor stuff hadn't been invented yet, or at least commercialized, I know it wasn't there. The rest looks pretty much the same, although the chain link fence just to left out of the frame seems to be a replacement for what I remember as a rusty old one.
Lots of rust in Sanford, ME, a town in the mid 1950's that Life Magazine said refused to die. Well die is realtive, the mill buildings have been vacant for far longer than they were used. Renewal efforts seem to result in money spent for little value, the bike path/curved parkway/elegant street lamps appears to have delivered little for the $2.2M spent.
The last snap in the gallery is from Little Ossipee Pond in Waterboro. Fifty year ago a rope hung from the tree — anti-progress through the use of tax dollars, I guess. For more Sanford area snaps, click here or the snap below. All taken with the X100.
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.
