Landscape
Byron-
This weeks submission was intended to be a backup. I went out last night to get my primary photo. The results of that adventure were too disappointing to require elaboration. So, I will use my backup. This is a bookend photo to Kevin's submission. He was on the north side of the pier, I was on the south side. I used a Fujifilm XE3 which has an APS-C (crop) sensor. I attached my 12mm Rokinon to it so I could get a really wide view. In addition to the camera gear I brought 2 flash units and a trigger for them. I knew there would be large rocks on the south side so I wanted to light them up instead of having them drop into shadows. As Kevin mentioned, there were people coming and going during our stay. I ended up with several versions of this picture. This is what I chose for this week's submission.
ISO 400, 12mm lens, f8, 1/125 sec.
This weeks submission was intended to be a backup. I went out last night to get my primary photo. The results of that adventure were too disappointing to require elaboration. So, I will use my backup. This is a bookend photo to Kevin's submission. He was on the north side of the pier, I was on the south side. I used a Fujifilm XE3 which has an APS-C (crop) sensor. I attached my 12mm Rokinon to it so I could get a really wide view. In addition to the camera gear I brought 2 flash units and a trigger for them. I knew there would be large rocks on the south side so I wanted to light them up instead of having them drop into shadows. As Kevin mentioned, there were people coming and going during our stay. I ended up with several versions of this picture. This is what I chose for this week's submission.
ISO 400, 12mm lens, f8, 1/125 sec.
Darin-
This is my parking lotsca...err, landscape.
I take my bike with me to work and this day I happened to be in Palm Springs.
This is the convention center parking lot, a par 3 hole from the draw bridge of the Braton mansion.
I liked the sky and the barren look of my single car in a huge empty lot.
Shot video with my cell phone and screen-grabbed what I liked.
This is my parking lotsca...err, landscape.
I take my bike with me to work and this day I happened to be in Palm Springs.
This is the convention center parking lot, a par 3 hole from the draw bridge of the Braton mansion.
I liked the sky and the barren look of my single car in a huge empty lot.
Shot video with my cell phone and screen-grabbed what I liked.
Kevin-
So as we embark on a new list for the WPOTM “Landscape" was the first theme. Happily the rules stated that the photo did not need to be a traditional landscape, even a cityscape would qualify, and people could also be in the frame. I was pleased by that as I have a feeling that the last thing my fellow WPOTMers wanted to see was yet another depiction of Joshua Tree National Park, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, or Whitewater Preserve, each of which I have photographed many, many times.
So as I cast about for something different I was taken with the idea of traveling to Oceanside, CA to photograph the Oceanside Pier at sunset. This is a very long pier, 1788 feet if I recall correctly and it was apparent that the sunset would roughly line up with the pier, depending on where the camera was placed. Best of all I was able to talk Byron into accompanying me! While I worked on side of the pier, he worked the other.
Constant movement and repositioning were necessary, as we were hardly the only two photographers with tripods working the scene.
I did shots when the sun was higher in the sky with a soft edged split ND, I did shots with a 10x ND to get a long shutter speed to smooth out the water, but the image I selected at the end was this one, with no filters. But the sun halfway set on the horizon.
Nikon Z7 body, mounted to a Manfrotto tripod with an Acratech ballhead, Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens set to 24mm, ISO 64, f/11 at 1/160th of a second.
So as we embark on a new list for the WPOTM “Landscape" was the first theme. Happily the rules stated that the photo did not need to be a traditional landscape, even a cityscape would qualify, and people could also be in the frame. I was pleased by that as I have a feeling that the last thing my fellow WPOTMers wanted to see was yet another depiction of Joshua Tree National Park, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, or Whitewater Preserve, each of which I have photographed many, many times.
So as I cast about for something different I was taken with the idea of traveling to Oceanside, CA to photograph the Oceanside Pier at sunset. This is a very long pier, 1788 feet if I recall correctly and it was apparent that the sunset would roughly line up with the pier, depending on where the camera was placed. Best of all I was able to talk Byron into accompanying me! While I worked on side of the pier, he worked the other.
Constant movement and repositioning were necessary, as we were hardly the only two photographers with tripods working the scene.
I did shots when the sun was higher in the sky with a soft edged split ND, I did shots with a 10x ND to get a long shutter speed to smooth out the water, but the image I selected at the end was this one, with no filters. But the sun halfway set on the horizon.
Nikon Z7 body, mounted to a Manfrotto tripod with an Acratech ballhead, Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens set to 24mm, ISO 64, f/11 at 1/160th of a second.
Paul-
WPOTM--Landscape
Oh what a mess. ‘Good thing I have over 360 more tries to get it right this year.
For reasons that escape me—shooting this during a brief break at work is insufficient justification—I shot this picture with a sub-par lens I didn’t need to use, through a dusty window, and employed an in-camera special effect I never experiment with before. I shot at a higher ISO than I needed to, had a back-up shot that looked (compositionally) worse than I initially thought, and would have probably had to submit a 12MB tiff file to get anywhere close to what I had envisioned.
In jpeg format, this image it looked like I was shooting an old part of downtown Lincoln during the dustbowl days. I had to tweak this and slide that until the picture was high key enough to be nominally presentable. An only, in part, because I used Snag-It to grab a screen capture of the finished image in Lightroom and convert that to jpeg.
Hence, the bold-type description below. I felt like I was taking the photo-editing version of an X-acto knife and excoriating the photo paper to keep it from looking like a connect-the-dots-gone-wild shot.
Phooey.
CityScrape… (10:05AM) Nikon D5200; Tamron 90-300mm focused at 98mm; WB set for AUTO; aperture priority; ISO 1250; 1/320 sec. at f/22. “Outline” effect applied in-camera. The other applications I used to salvage a serviceable (but hardly admirable) picture were Lightroom, PhotoScape, and…yes…Snag-It.
WPOTM--Landscape
Oh what a mess. ‘Good thing I have over 360 more tries to get it right this year.
For reasons that escape me—shooting this during a brief break at work is insufficient justification—I shot this picture with a sub-par lens I didn’t need to use, through a dusty window, and employed an in-camera special effect I never experiment with before. I shot at a higher ISO than I needed to, had a back-up shot that looked (compositionally) worse than I initially thought, and would have probably had to submit a 12MB tiff file to get anywhere close to what I had envisioned.
In jpeg format, this image it looked like I was shooting an old part of downtown Lincoln during the dustbowl days. I had to tweak this and slide that until the picture was high key enough to be nominally presentable. An only, in part, because I used Snag-It to grab a screen capture of the finished image in Lightroom and convert that to jpeg.
Hence, the bold-type description below. I felt like I was taking the photo-editing version of an X-acto knife and excoriating the photo paper to keep it from looking like a connect-the-dots-gone-wild shot.
Phooey.
CityScrape… (10:05AM) Nikon D5200; Tamron 90-300mm focused at 98mm; WB set for AUTO; aperture priority; ISO 1250; 1/320 sec. at f/22. “Outline” effect applied in-camera. The other applications I used to salvage a serviceable (but hardly admirable) picture were Lightroom, PhotoScape, and…yes…Snag-It.
Jerry-
I got a text from the BB Tipline this week so I wandered down to the scene of the crime with my trusty Sony A6300 with 16-70 zoomed to 16mm, exposure was f16 @ 1/160, ISO 400.
About 20x each day, the Canadian Pacific thunders along this stretch. But this particular time, one of the grain cars opened up and spilled its load of corn. Approximately $3,000 work of corn destined to be high fructose corn syrup was lost to the local population of squirrels, crows, and rabbits.
I got a text from the BB Tipline this week so I wandered down to the scene of the crime with my trusty Sony A6300 with 16-70 zoomed to 16mm, exposure was f16 @ 1/160, ISO 400.
About 20x each day, the Canadian Pacific thunders along this stretch. But this particular time, one of the grain cars opened up and spilled its load of corn. Approximately $3,000 work of corn destined to be high fructose corn syrup was lost to the local population of squirrels, crows, and rabbits.
Don-
I had originally shot the snow covered mountains. Then the next day
we had fog. As is common for me it to take pictures of unusual
weather from my deck. I shot this one. In photoshop I edited out
the bits of snow and one pole, cropped to 1:1 and then I put a white/grey
graduated layer behind the picture and the blended the picture with
the 'hard light' blending mode to the layer to further mute the background
and lighted the picture to give it a 'white-out' appearance.
Shot using a D810 Nikon with a 24 to 70 mm lens set to 24 mm.
Exposure was 1/60 second; f/7.1; ISO 100 and camera set on Aperture Priority.
I had originally shot the snow covered mountains. Then the next day
we had fog. As is common for me it to take pictures of unusual
weather from my deck. I shot this one. In photoshop I edited out
the bits of snow and one pole, cropped to 1:1 and then I put a white/grey
graduated layer behind the picture and the blended the picture with
the 'hard light' blending mode to the layer to further mute the background
and lighted the picture to give it a 'white-out' appearance.
Shot using a D810 Nikon with a 24 to 70 mm lens set to 24 mm.
Exposure was 1/60 second; f/7.1; ISO 100 and camera set on Aperture Priority.
Elroy-
Gateway to the city.
Canon T3i Canon lens EF-S10-18mm F/4.5-5.6 IS
ISO 200 12mm F/5.6 1/1000 taken at 10:37 A.M.
Gateway to the city.
Canon T3i Canon lens EF-S10-18mm F/4.5-5.6 IS
ISO 200 12mm F/5.6 1/1000 taken at 10:37 A.M.