Tag: San Diego

Restaurant On The Bay

I had to go find a photo I took a few years ago so I was digging through my archives. I found some photos I never published. I have no reason for not editing them other than I guess I didn’t have the skills back then.

My editing from when I started to where I am now is two different worlds. I never used Photoshop, I didn’t have a Wacom tablet, I had no idea what layer masks were, and a whole host of other things. So when I saw these images I just had to edit them and I’m happy I did.

This is obviously the same restaurant on San Diego Bay. I do know where I shot them from and based on the angle I just moved a bit to the right. They felt better in a 16×9 crop to give them a more expansive feeling. To me they feel like different images. While they are the same subject there are different items in them.

I didn’t go wild on the editing because these are micro four-thirds files. One of the reasons I gave up on the format was that the more I pushed the images the more the images degraded. While I have 1″ sensor Sony’s my main work cameras are full frame sensors. While I use the same workflow I don’t dare mask as much in as I do when I have a full frame image to work with.

Enjoy.

 

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5 Airports and 3 Airlines Later

With my recent travels to the West Coast I had to do some creative flying to get to the various destinations in my itinerary. I flew out of Regan National Airport, laidover in Chicago, flew in and out of Portland, Oregon, in and out in San Diego, and then landed in Baltimore when I got back home. While I didn’t get pictures of all the stops I got a enough with Chicago getting the bulk of the images shot since I was there longer than I anticipated due to mechanical issues with the plane.

The first image was shot on my Canon S100 and the rest were shot on my Nexus 6P. While I had access to the Canon S100 it was just easier to use my phone to take the images. I used Camera FV-5 to take the images since I knew I could get DNG files out of it and give me some latitude to work with.

Whenever you use small sensors to take images there is noise in the image. It’s just the nature of the beast. I tried to keep the editing simple. I think I hit my mojo about halfway through the series but I’m fried from jet lag right now so it’s a bit inconsistent. Still, I liked them and wanted to share.

Enjoy.

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San Diego Bay Sky

I was going to do a series but I really liked this image so just doing this one. I really like the sky and the water coming together with the bridge, industrial complex and the mountains in the background breaking it up. Went cinematic crop just to give it a more expansive feel. Hope you enjoy.

San Diego Bay Sky

Long Walk Off A Short Pier

I have been working in color too much. I knew I had to go monochrome soon. There is something compelling about monochrome landscape images. When dealing with lots of textures like this image it really draws it out.

This is the pier that the ferry’s dock on when you arrive to Coronado Island in San Diego. I took this as I was walking back to catch my ferry from the island back to the “mainland”. While there is some falloff the shot was done at F9 I think but you still get a sense of depth out of the image.

Enjoy.

Long Walk Off A Short Pier

Bay Sky

This was on the water taxi back from Coronado Island. While it was sunny out, the camera metered on the dark area. The Sony RX100M3 has a different way of spot metering then my Olympus cameras so there is a learning curve. Still, I liked how it came out.

The way the sky is swirling and causes the land elements to be silhouetted. The light coming in from the left just adds to the drama of the image.

Enjoy

Bay Sky

Bay Reflections

This was shot from Coronado Island which is a view of San Diego I have never seen before. I really liked how the buildings were reflecting off the water. I didn’t use the usual landscape format to give the image a sense of length. I was shooting is 3×2 just for a bit of change up.

To get the details out of the image I did another composite or about 8 total images. I am discovering that prefer doing a composite because I finally get the level of detail I want. With memory cards being cheap and setting a camera to continuous you can easily create composite images. With a bit of trial and error you can figure out what works and what doesn’t.

Enjoy.

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Vertical Monochrome

Still feel like editing building images in monochromatic. Just like how they look. These images were shot in San Diego, California and Jomtien, Thailand. Two different cameras were used, the departed Fuji X100S and my Olympus EM1. Some of the EM1 images got a bit noisy but I left it. Gives it a bit of a film grain feel.

Vertical Monochrome

Vertical Monochrome

Vertical Monochrome

Vertical Monochrome

Vertical Monochrome

Vertical Monochrome