Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Rogues Gallery
Dolph was in town last Sunday. We went out to Heron's Head park at India Basin to look for shorebirds. You will see more shots from us soon.
--Warren
Labels: DMC-G5, Heron's Head Park, Seagull, Wildlife
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
2 Comments:
- Lea said...
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Infinite yellow ! Very sweet.
- Dolph Brust said...
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On Sunday on my way to the airport I drove over to Half Moon Bay and all the fields had these wonderful yellow flowers. Nice capture of the little guy playing the field.
**Dolph
1 Comments:
- Dolph Brust said...
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Reminds me when I lived on the Coast and early morning cool fog at the beach. I can still feel the wonderful mornings.....thanks!
**Dolph
Friday, January 25, 2013
4 Comments:
- Steve Rosenbach said...
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All three are wonderful, atmospheric photos
- Warren T. said...
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Perfect orange sunset glow and reflection! Stunning!
--WT - Lea said...
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Some hierarchy amongst the birds on the rocks... ;) Wonderful butterscotch sky.
- Dolph Brust said...
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Somthing to print and frame for everyone to see.
**Dolph
2 Comments:
- Dolph Brust said...
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Lena,
Great photo!
**Dolph - dan in marin said...
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Nice use of light Lena
Dan
The Night is Still Young
Continuing to post my other shots from the Decisive Challenge, winter edition. The Santacon was on that day, and there were santas all over Chinatown/North Beach that night. Lea might recognize this moment (because she was there with us that night).
--Warren
Labels: Black and White, Decisive Challenge Dec 2012, LX5, Night Photography, Street
7 Comments:
- Warren T. said...
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Thanks Ted!
I find it quite amazing and gratifying that someone from our group has placed in all three Challenges to-date. We must be doing something right.
I really enjoy seeing all the great images that were submitted, especially to see photos from all over the world (it being an international contest).
--Warren - tedm said...
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Hi Warren, well paying off Kent probably helps ;) (just KIDDING!), but seriously, when Kent decided to only allow 200 pixels or whatever, I knew I was out. And with all due respect to everyone here, and those who played, I seriously doubt that HCB, or any serious photographer would enter a contest where you had to judge by re-sizing already mega compressed images to thumbnail sizes. Sorry for the Friday rant ;)
- Warren T. said...
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Well, Kent's restrictions were: 1200 pixels on the long side, and max 300k file size which is hardly a thumbnail size. I understand that it may be thumbnail sized to you though. In my opinion, this is certainly large enough to be able to judge online, these characteristics: subject, composition, lighting, exposure, and other subjective things such as message, feeling, vision, etc.
Sorry Ted, I but do believe that everyone who entered this contest was a serious photographer at least in their own minds. What you consider serious is of course, subjective though, and may differ.
--Warren - Lena said...
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Cute, great pose and portrait.
Lena.. - tedm said...
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Thank you Lena for the comment on Slate resting under the chair.
Warren, the images on my screens on rff and Kent's site are about 2 inches square, the rectangular ones maybe 3 inches by 2 inches. This is at the devices native resolutions, and the browser's native scaling.
When I enlarge them in the browser, to about 3x, they are pixelated, and the emotions that should accompany the images are not there for me. The mind is fooled, but the heart is not.
There are some basic technical reasons why most photo competitions or requests for images, require larger files, and I can explain this to you over coffee or a beer sometime. Thanks, and I apologize. I did not mean to offend anyone here, or those who participated in any contest, but I do feel strongly that small images lose quite a bit. And that's is why I not only didn't submit anything (in addition, I haven't developed my film images from that day yet), but I didn't judge any either, as they are simply too small and too compressed for me to comprehend. - Warren T. said...
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Ted, I fully understand the technical reasons you speak of, but I would still like to have a beer or coffee with you one of these days because it's been too long since we've done that! :)
--Warren - tedm said...
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Thanks Warren! It has been way too long! I look forward to seeing you the next time I'm down there.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
My Decisive Misfirings (winter 2012)
The Hands.... |
Sleepy Under the Umbrella |
Secret Santa's |
B&W Stroll |
Labels: Decisive Challenge Dec 2012
4 Comments:
- Warren T. said...
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Thanks Lea! :)
Panda Santa saw you, and doesn't look too happy to have his picture taken, LOL!
I like the grand perspective on B&W Stroll.
These are all great shots.
--Warren - Warren T. said...
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Lea, do you know which image was submitted by Shu?
--Warren - Lena said...
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Hi lea,all those are great shots, I specialy like the B&W stroll image, nice composition.
Lena.. - Lea said...
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Thanks Warren and Lena!
Shu had the stairway to heaven one.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Sunday, January 20, 2013
NEW NIKON 50MM 1.4D AF LENS TESTING GROUND
ALL YOU NEED IS A CHAIR
RAIN FOR THE THIRSTY
CRAB SPIDER BOKEH
BEES WORK ON SUNDAY
I received my 50MM 1.4D AF lens on Friday. These are just a few of my favorites from the past two days. I am really enjoying learning with this lens. Funny how much this lens taught me about my other two lenses.
I would like to start a Blog or site where I can post pics that Google and Face Crook cant steal and everything stays mine so I can post freely. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to start?
I look at every ones photos during the week and love to see new ones. I need to figure out an easy way to comment from my phone or I-Pad. Does anyone have suggestions for phone adaptability. Apple doesn't play well with Google or others for that matter.
3 Comments:
- Lea said...
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I like the night lighting in the two tree shots. Makes for an interesting mystery mood...
I use flickr to post, where you can set different levels of ownership per photo. With Google+ I think the photogs are taking out copyrights on their pics before putting them up there. Neither are free from theft... as is anything seen on the internet, but if you would like to legally carry the copyright then those are safe to use I think. - Warren T. said...
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I also like the two nighttime tree shots, interesting lighting, color, and compositions.
The Nikkor 50mm is a great lens. I have 3 manual focus versions of that lens. Can't wait to see more of your shots from that lens.
What Lea said... it's very hard to protect your images from theft if you publish them on the Internet. You can take precautions, like watermarking your files and not publishing full-resolution images in your galleries, but there are widely known methods of defeating almost anything.
For my 'viewfindersf.com' site, I use Lightroom and WSPP (a LR plug-in) to create and maintain the site. But before you can do that, you need to have your own domain.
There are many people who view and comment here who are using Apple computers/tablets/iPhones. What problems are you having when you try to read and/or comment using Apple gear? - Lena said...
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Beautiful ! excellent colors, nice light capture, great images, well seen..:-)
Lena..
Friday, January 18, 2013
Butterfly Tree
We visited the Pismo Beach Butterfly Grove on our trip down south last November. The Monarchs look like leaves on the tree when they are resting.
--Warren
Labels: Monarch Butterflies, Panasonic DMC-G1, Pismo Beach
4 Comments:
- Steve Rosenbach said...
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Wow!.. now THAT's special!
Nice bokeh, too.
I've only been in Pismo Beach twice, once in 1989 and then in 1993 - I love that place!
Isn't that where Bugs Bunny was always trying to go to... and kept taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque, ending up in Alaska or wherever? - Warren T. said...
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Thanks Steve.
Bugs Bunny's original line was: "I KNEW I 'shoulda' made that left 'toin' in 'Albakoikie'"
--WT - Lea said...
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It's like a money tree made of butterflies!
- Lena said...
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wow ! a lot of butterflies,very nice capture...:-)
Lena..
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
4 Comments:
- Lena said...
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Very nice framing and reflections of shadow. great in B/W.
Lena, - Warren T. said...
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Having done a fair amount of business travel over the year, I can fully relate to this picture. Nicely caught moment.
--WT - Warren T. said...
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I meant to say "over the years". That was in the past, not over this year... just wanted to clarify my statement :)
- dan in marin said...
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The anonymity of the traveller. Very nice Dolph.
Dan
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
4 Comments:
- Warren T. said...
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I really like the first one, beautiful color and mood.
--WT - Lea said...
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I really like the second pic. So many crunchy leaves bathing in the sunlight, smoothed out and softened by the shallow dof.
- Lena said...
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Very nice Warm images, great capture !
Lena, - back alley said...
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thanks...
Boffo in Bowie...
So much for my attempt to write headlines in the style of Variety!
One of my photos is now showing at a juried art exhibit sponsored by Bowie Arts Committee at Bowie City Hall, 15901 Excalibur Road.
The theme of this exhibit, which runs until March 16, 2013, is "Abstracts" (so all you Californians, hurry up and fly over here to see it! ;-) Entries the judges accepted include photographs, painting, mixed media, and small sculptures.
I submitted two photos, and the judges chose my "Green Spiral Benches" (center framed item in the photo here) for the exhibit.
You can see a larger rendition of the image here.
Thanks to Warren for reminding me to post this on FPCF!
5 Comments:
- Warren T. said...
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Congratulations on your exhibit, Steve! Thanks for sharing that with us.
I forgot to ask Dan to post about his recent showing, which was also a juried art exhibit.
Also, for those of you in the SF Bay Area, Dan will have an exhibit of his work coming up soon. Dan, please post details.
--Warren - Lea said...
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Very cool, congrats!
- Lena said...
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Wonderful congratulations steve !
Lena, - Unknown said...
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Congratulations that is amazing!! I took a look at some of your pics on Flicker. You have some amazing photos there!! Thanks for Sharing
- dan in marin said...
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Congratulations on a very nice photograph Steve!! Great use of perspective. I sure is nice to print and frame our work. I still like the tactile satisfaction of printing, must be a hold over from the wet darkroom.
I am in the middle of putting 30 prints together for a show at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center. The show will run for the month of April, with a reception on April 13, tentative time is at 7 PM. I will be bring the food and beverages so for those in the Bay Area, you are more than welcome.
Dan
3 Comments:
- dan in marin said...
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These are better than the ones in the Chronicle Lena. They should hire you.
Dan - Warren T. said...
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River otters are cute. I'll have to go see him myself one of these days. It looks like he is in the process of building a home there.
--WT - Lea said...
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Nice variety of water surfaces. The waves and stillness, and the ripples from an otter...
Point Reyes and Alamere Falls
The fluffy clouds, almost within reach. |
Seems like a giant shark tail, and a big tale being told by that person down there ;) |
The upper three cascades of Alamere Falls. |
The lowest part of Alamere Falls where the creek meets the Ocean. |
3 Comments:
- Lena said...
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Indeed, a beautiful day, very nice scenery, wonderful capture.
Lena, - dan in marin said...
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One of my favorite spots within the Pt. Reyes Seashore. Nice Series Lea.
- Warren T. said...
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What a beautiful place! I'll have to to there to see it with my own eyeballs one of these days. I love the fish tail!
--WT
Monday, January 14, 2013
MISSING WHAT?
5 Comments:
- Dolph Brust said...
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The second picture has some great lines, on the 68 Chevelle my favorite car.
**Dolph - Warren T. said...
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re: the last shot, I used to own a silver '72 Vette. :) This '71 has a custom nose (I prefer the original front-end). Yes, I remember when...
Nice picture of the mockingbird, and nice series overall.
If that's what you intended, then that's fine, but on my monitor, the shots seem a bit over-saturated.
--Warren - Lea said...
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Second shot is really nice! I like the separation in pairs of colour. The car and blue t-shirt, the pink shirts, and then in front the blue shirts again. Very cool :) Haha, your sense of humour will allow you to learn quickly! Good job!
- Lena said...
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Lovely second shot, so sweet gird just leaves that making her so joyful, nice capture.
also I like third picture of Mocking Bird, it so cute, nice and detail, great framing. beautiful image.
Lena, - Unknown said...
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Thanks for all the complements and input!! I really appreciate it.
Yes I did over saturate a couple of the pics a little. It kind of gave them that slight feeling of sitting in a dream. I just really liked the effect it created. and in some ways reflects the way my brain seams to replay events in my head.
~Carl~
5 Comments:
- Unknown said...
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I love the clouds. Is that you in the picture? Looks amazing.
- Dolph Brust said...
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Walking on California Beaches in the cool wind....great. Brings back great memories.
Thank you!
**Dolph - Warren T. said...
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The nice cloud formation is a great counterpoint to the waves, nicely seen.
--WT - Lea said...
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Reaching for those things just out of reach . . Very cute.
- Lena said...
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Hi Carl D, I was taking this picture...:-)
Lena,
3 Comments:
- Lena said...
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Very nice reflection of Landmark
in the water. gorgeous, nice capture...
Lena - Dolph Brust said...
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Warren,
Where did you take this from? I can't recall this angle with land and the bridge.
Wonderful photo and from an angle you don't see.
**Dolph - Warren T. said...
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Dolph, this is on the beach, next to the inlet to the Crissy Field Lagoon. Sometimes at high tide, the water spills onto the beach and causes a mini-lagoon on the beach.
--WT
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He has a fort :) The dog guards him, they are both at work.
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