Emeryville Sunset

Lumix G5, Lumix 45-200mm

I haven't posted a sunset in a long time. Here's one from last December, shot from Emeryville, with a view of the SF skyline.

--Warren

Marsh Sunset

Lumix G5, Lumix 100-300mm


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Late Afternoon Joggers

Lumix G5, Lumix 100-300mm

This was taken close to sunset time in Golden Gate Park.

--Warren

FOG? OR HUMIDITY? FLORIDA IS THE ANSWER

Nikon D7000 ISO100 f/9 200 Tokina 11-16mm @ 14mm

Well I wish I could find the email I was trying to read on my phone in between coffee refills. I know the September project was FOG and I thought i read something about not cropping the photo. But I cant seem to find it.

So here is my hopefully not last attempt at Florida Fog.


I saw this split in the sunset between the patches of rain clouds and beautiful, relentless, Florida Sun. Seems my lens sitting in supercharged office AC all day had a hard time clearing up as I started to focus.

Since my first Fog shot was happening with or without my will it seams it was destined to land here.

Looking West from Golden Gate Overlook

Lumix DMC-G5, Lumix 20mm f1.7



--Warren

Sunset Beams

Lumix DMC-G5, Lumix 100-300mm


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Twilight Colors

Lumix DMC-G5, Lumix 100-300mm




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Sunset in Golden Gate Park

Lumix DMC-GF1, Lumix 14mm f2.5

I was at GG Park before I went out to freeze at Ocean Beach last night. :)

--Warren

Ocean Beach Sunset

Lumix DMC-G5, Lumix 100-300mm

I was out there last night too! I decided to go out because it has been raining so much lately, and I thought the lingering clouds would look good around sunset time. I was near the Balboa Street side of Ocean Beach. It was too cold and windy, so I only stayed a few minutes.

--Warren

Telegraph Hill Twilight

Lumix LX5

A view of the twilight sky over Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower as seen from Levi's Plaza.

--Warren

Lake Laguna Twilight

Lumix DMC-GF1, Lumix 20mm f1.7

We got to Lake Laguna in San Luis Obispo right around sunset.


--Warren

Dandelion Studies

Lumix LX5

We went for a walk at the reservoir in our neighborhood around sunset time. I turned around to look at the setting sun, and I saw some dandelions glowing from the sunset light, so I decided to try out the close focusing capability of the LX5. I took the four shots below. 

Which one do you like best, and why?

--Warren

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Sutro Bath Sunset, Another View

D200, Nikkor 24mm f2.8

A few minutes later than the first one that I posted. It was getting cold, so we left the area but if we had stayed, we would have seen more pinks and reds in the clouds. Oh well, maybe next time...

--Warren

Sunset at Sutro Baths

D200, Nikkor 24mm f2.8

It was a hot day yesterday, we decided to go out to see the sunset at Sutro Baths to cool down, and were treated to another nice and unique sunset view.

I went out with the D200 yesterday and I'll have more to post later. IQ is spectacular, in my opinion, what do you think? :)

--Warren

Version Two, for Dan. I changed the white balance to make it a bit warmer, and backed off the vibrancy. Yes, I think this looks more natural. :)

--WT

Sunset out the Back Window

D200, Nikkor 300mm f4.5

That's right, it was taken with a D200. I almost bought Joe's D200 recently, but Dolph was kind enough to send me his very lightly used D200 for me to play with because as you know, I never met an old camera I didn't like.

I received it Friday, and Friday after work, I unpacked it, and found that there was a little juice left in its battery so I started to play with different lenses on the camera, and also to get familiar with operating it.

I looked out the window and saw that the sun was setting so I threw the 300mm on it, and couldn't immediately figure out how to set focal length and max aperture on the D200 because I only handled the camera for about 5 minutes.

Even so, I still managed to grab this shot before the sun set completely. I later found that the D200 has a programmable function button that I programmed to let me quickly set FL and Max aperture whenever I change to a non-cpu lens. The ability to matrix meter with my old Nikkor ai/ais lenses is one of the features that I really wanted, but was not available on my ancient D100. But this ancient D200 has the feature, and a bunch of other improvements over my D100 that I can really appreciate.

I'll talk more about the D200 later, but suffice to say that the camera is rather beastly compared to the Micro 4/3 cameras that I've been using for the last couple of years.

Dan, we'll need to schedule another photo walk soon so that I can give you the 200 Micro, and also so I can check out your D800e.

--Warren

Fountain at the Park

Lumix DMC-GF1, Lumix 20mm f1.7

This is one of the three fountains at the Music Concourse at Golden Gate Park.

--Warren

Elkhorn Slough Sunset

Panasonic DMC-G1, Lumix 45-200mm

Another sunset shot at Elkhorn Slough. the sun's reflection seemed to be pointing right at the shorebird.

--Warren

Egret at Elkhorn Slough

Panasonic DMC-G1, Lumix 45-200mm

Wildlife silhouette art :)

An egret hunts at sunset, the golden light creates a great background for a profile shot of the bird.

I watched the bird's hunting technique with great interest. Have you ever seen this? It would stir up the silt with one of its claws to disturb the creatures that live in there. The egret sees it and snatches it quickly with its beak.

--Warren

Sunset at Pacifica Pier #4

Panasonic DMC-G1, Lumix 14-45mm

Sunset at Pacifica Pier #3, "Fire Water"

Panasonic DMC-G1, Lumix 14-45mm