Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Fire Rescue


A couple fire department staff out testing their toys for the summer =D
weeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Blogger Warren T. said...

Nice Catch.

It's a tough job, but someone has to do it :).

--WT

Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 2:45:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Lea said...

hehe, yeah it was a nice day to be on the water!

Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 7:27:00 PM PDT  

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Orange Sunset


I really liked the colours of the sky here! :)

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Blogger Warren T. said...

Beautiful colors!

Is there near your house?

--WT

Monday, April 23, 2007 at 8:56:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Lea said...

It's a bike ride away :)

Monday, April 23, 2007 at 6:07:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Eric said...

Lea, I like your sunset photo. I look at it and it reminds me of sunsets in the New England during late Autumn, my favorite season of all. Kind of sad, but kind of happy and peaceful, too.

Eric

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 4:17:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Lea said...

Thanks Eric :)

Yeah there is a somewhat content feeling to a solemn sunset .. Usually a nice time to run through the thoughts you kind of put on the backburner throughout a busy work week. Fresh air -- it's great!

Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 10:11:00 AM PDT  

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Friday, April 13, 2007

empty bleacher seats

At an A's vs Mariners game in June, 2005. Taken with a Lumix FZ3 at 1/400, f4.6, ISO 80, converted to b&w in picasa.
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Blogger Warren T. said...

Nice one, Ted!

I like the abstract pattern. It appeared to be a chain link fence of some sort at first glance.

--Warren

Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 12:10:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Lea said...

Yay baseball!!

Great pic! The sun reflections add alot to this pic!! Nice detail in the larger version :)

Monday, April 16, 2007 at 7:57:00 PM PDT  
Blogger tedm said...

Thanks Warren and Lea, I've always wondered if this one was just a little too abstract to really show... I'm glad I did!

Monday, April 16, 2007 at 9:47:00 PM PDT  

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Statues

Nikon D100, Sigma 15-30mm

I took this grab shot from across the street while walking up Grant Avenue in Chinatown. I didn't have the optimal lens for this type of shot so I had to crop a bit in PS.

--Warren

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Blogger Lea said...

A bit comical... the statue and human.. In a photograph, they are both still life ;)

Interesting catch!

Friday, April 13, 2007 at 7:58:00 PM PDT  

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Muni in the Morning


I caught the morning sunlight reflecting off the Muni Metro tracks on Judah Street.

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Blogger Lea said...

Empty streets, except for parked cars... the sun reflecting off the tracks... it makes me feel very tired lol ;) Was it like 7am?... mornings are oh so tiring...

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 6:45:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

Nice glow on the tracks, Martin. This image has a great, vintage feel to it.

It also reminds me of the view looking up the hill on California street from Chinatown. I've thought about taking that shot one of these days.

--WT

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 11:19:00 AM PDT  

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

oh geez..


The snow has returned. Crossing my fingers that it will melt by the end of the day :)

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Blogger Warren T. said...

Has it stopped snowing yet? :P

Nicely composed picture!


--WT

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 11:20:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Lea said...

Thanks Warren :)

It had all melted..then it got cold again..and we're expecting 10cm of snow tonight...BAH. I can't wait for summer!!! We don't get enough of it around here ;)

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 3:54:00 PM PDT  
Blogger SteveR said...

Nice photo, Lea! I like the combination of white with red, and also the smaller white/red cluster at lower right gives a nice balance.

Yeah, even here in Baltimore, we had temps in the 70's over a week ago for two days, but then COLD weather -- we even woke up last Saturday to find the ground covered with a thin layer of snow. Where is Al Gore when you need him??

Meanwhile, I thought I'd check in with you all to let you know all is well here, but I've just not taken any photos worth posting for weeks and weeks. Our son & his girlfriend are coming to visit this weekend, and they're going to see the Cherry Blossom Festival Saturday - I'm gonna charge up my Digital Rebel batteries and go with them -- who knows - maybe I'll have something to show next week.

Best regards,
SteveR

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 5:20:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

Hi Steve,

Thanks for checking in! I'm glad everything is a-okay over there.

Cherry Blossom pictures are always an interesting challenge.

I've been in a bit of a slow period myself as far as photography. :)

--Warren

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 6:17:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Lea said...

Thanks Steve! Ya with all this cold weather, I think more and more people are seeing global warming in a new light.... But I think it is the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" which illustrates the other side of global "warming"... the cold side...

Weather is crazy =O

Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 6:52:00 PM PDT  

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Ariana

Nikon F4s, Nikkor 85mm f1.8D, Kodak Tri-X


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Blogger Warren T. said...

Background info on this picture:

Ariana is the beautiful 16 year old daughter of a friend of ours. I mentioned before that I did a family portrait session with our friend and her entire family. My main camera was my Nikon D100. I also brought my Nikon F4S along for some candid black & white pictures. During that session, I only managed to get a few shots with the Nikon F4S using available light and either my 85mm or 50mm lens.

I finally finished and processed the roll of Tri-X (as you can see from my other posts).

This was my favorite of the b&w shots. Ariana was sitting on a sofa relaxing while waiting for the rest of the family to arrive between formal poses, and I couldn't help noticing her relaxed and natural expression. I quickly brought the camera up to my eye and I was able to shoot two frames. She was sitting in front of a white wall, and she was wearing a white blouse. This made for a natural high key effect, which I slightly enhanced in Photoshop by dodging the wall a bit to make it appear more pure white.

--Warren

5:36 PM

Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 5:39:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Lea said...

Yeah the complete whiteness is pretty cool for a background! :)

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 6:50:00 PM PDT  

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Stairway to Discovery


Nikon F4, Nikkor 85mm f1.8D, Kodak Tri-X
I thought this scene with the lines made by the stairway would be interesting. I waited for someone to walk into the frame before snapping a few shots. This one with the little girl looking over the railing was the most interesting.
--Warren

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Airplane Engine Detail


Nikon F4, Nikkor 50mm f1.8D, Kodak Tri-X
This was seen at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos.
Dolph, I finally made it there! It's a very interesting place. I had no idea that there were so many aviation related innovations and milestones that happened right here in the SF Bay Area.
--Warren

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Monday, April 02, 2007

Superbird Reflection


Nikon D100
Does anyone remember the 1970 Plymouth Superbird? Here is its signature tail section and rear wing reflected on the Superbird's cousin, a Dodge Charger.
--Warren

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Blogger Dolph Brust said...

Warren,

Nice shot. Were you in Palm Beach Florida over the weekend? They had the original classic car show and sale. I watched on TV, and they had one of these Superbirds. Great car, the shot is not bad also.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 3:26:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

Thanks Dolph. This was taken last June at the Stanford Concours.

--Warren

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 6:24:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Eric said...

Good shot, Warren. I like the way the lines guide your eyes and I like the colors. I've always liked cars like this.

Eric

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 9:00:00 AM PDT  

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Historic Victorian Row, Presidio, San Francisco


Nikon D100, Sigma 15-30mm
This is the oldest surviving Victorian Streetscape in San Francisco. Many of the original Victorian homes in S.F. were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. This row of Victorians, formerly married officers' quarters in the Presidio, survived and were kept intact and preserved through the years by the U.S Army.
They were recently restored, and they were open for tours over the last two weekends. We were there yesterday.
I took the opportunity to exercise my Sigma 15-30mm and D100.
Things have been slow around here. Where did everyone go??? I see that we lost a few people due to the Blogger to Google switchover. That's understandable because people are busy, and can easily lose interest.
--Warren

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Blogger Eric said...

I promise I will be participating more after we get back from Argentina. Got a 2 gig memory stick yesterday, so that combined with my old memory stick should get me 2000 shots. I would hope that at least 1 will be ok to post. Talk about bracketing. Jeez...

Monday, April 2, 2007 at 11:10:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

Weird. Just after I posted this and talked about losing a few people, I looked at our sidebar and I noticed that our contributor list has everyone in it! Did everyone really sign up again, or did Google do something to restore all the old names?

--WT

Monday, April 2, 2007 at 7:54:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Dolph Brust said...

I signed up. I've been reading about using a graduated filter for shots like these from under a tree in full sun. The shot is very nice, but I wonder what it would have looked like.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 3:28:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

In my opinion, a shot with the leaves bright and green may not work as well as the shot as it is, with the leaves silhouetted. But I guess we would never know unless I actually tried to shoot it that way.

Picture yourself standing at the same spot, in the shadow of the tree looking at the row of houses. When you look out at the scene, would you see green leaves or dark/black leaves? Would you even notice what color the leaves were?

If you saw this same picture with brighter/green leaves, your first reaction might be: "Wow, cool!", then upon further reflection you may think that it looks unnatural. Then you'll wonder how the picture was made.

A grad/ND filter is good for balancing dynamic range between a sky and land shot. In this case, the horizon is a bit uneven where the leaves and the roofline of the house make for a jagged horizon. Also, the sky behind the leaves would also be darkened by the ND filter. It would be interesting to experiment with a ND here, but IMO, I don't think it would work for the intended result.

If I wanted to lighten the foreground here (which I didn't), I would have used a fill flash.

Alternatively, you could put the camera on a tripod to shoot multiple images at different exposures and produce a composite in Photoshop.

Dennis F. has experience using grad/ND filters on his landscape pictures, and Steve F. posted a composite here previously of a shot in Death Valley.

--Warren

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 6:37:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Benson said...

I like the shot as composed. I think the leaves and the shadowing provides a nice frame for the houses. I would agree with Warren that a ND filter would not create the same effect unless there were no trees above and you wanted to darken the sky a little so it is not blown out.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 8:45:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Lea said...

So picturesque! :)

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 6:58:00 PM PDT  

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