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Salton Sea Gallery

March 27, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

It’s been close to a month since my visit to the Salton Sea.   Since then I’ve gone to Portland, and the Columbia Gorge.  It seemed like things kept getting in the way of publishing the two galleries.  Now in one weekend I’m publishing both Galleries.

I think you’ll see that the delay in the Salton Sea Gallery wasn’t because the place had no photo possibilities.  In fact, I found it to be an amazing place, and I can’t wait to go back.

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Filed Under: San Diego, Travel Photography Tagged With: HDR, Salton Sea, San Diego, Sunrise, Sunset

Red Hill Salton Sea

February 26, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

I didn’t have enough time at Red Hill.  I need to go back and really spend some time there.

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Filed Under: San Diego Tagged With: HDR, Salton Sea, San Diego

Poway Park in perfect light

February 14, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

I planned to go to the gym at lunch but when I went out to the car saw the most amazing sky.  Strong dramatic sky with crisp side lighting.  I had to go take some photos, so I went to Poway Park.

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Filed Under: San Diego Tagged With: HDR, photography, San Diego

Balboa Park Sunset

February 13, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

I worked this shot for hours in the computer.  Started out doing an HDR.  I wasn’t quite happy with the results.  Seemed to introduce too much noise in the photo.  I tried using Dfine and DxO to remove the noise and it was still there.  I thought that if a sharpened everything but the noise it would make it less visible.  Finally gave up and just took the dark & light raw files into Photoshop as layers.  Added a mask & used the gradient tool to show some of each layer.  Oh, I did use Viveza 2 to brighten the tower.

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Filed Under: Photo education, San Diego Tagged With: HDR, photography, San Diego, Sunset

Looking out to Sea

February 12, 2010 by admin 5 Comments

Another shot taken at Wind and Sea Beach.  It is possible to take multi shot HDR’s with people in them.  You can either layer a single file to the HDR and mask in the person without movement.  Or you can yell “hold still for a minute.”  That’s what I did this time.

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Filed Under: Photo education, San Diego Tagged With: beaches, HDR, photography, San Diego

Back to Wind and Sea

February 11, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

I had two really good beach days last weekend.  I’ve been showing photos from Sunday in Ocean Beach, but I also loved Wind and Sea Beach in Bird Rock.

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Filed Under: San Diego Tagged With: beaches, HDR, San Diego

Bird Rock San Diego

February 7, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

I’ve been in San Diego for a long time now.  How the heck did I never go to Bird Rock (Wind And Sea Beach)?  Beautiful place, and the weather there was great.  Right after a downpour.

Photo tip.  Did a 3 shot HDR.  To correct for the moving bird, I took the darkest shot and added it as a layer.  Then Idid a mask to bring back the bird from that shot only.

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Filed Under: Photo education, San Diego Tagged With: HDR, San Diego

Eastern State Prison

February 5, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

So 2 different Hanging Tree posts have given me the bug to go over my Chaos stuff.  (Something about a little chaos that compliments the beauty of landscapes.)   Anyway, what chaos would be better after Hanging Tress then a prison?  I visited Eastern State Prison in Philly a while back.  (In fact, I was late for the last tour and had to do some major begging just to get in.)  The place is amazing if you like chaos (and I do.)

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Filed Under: Photo education, Travel Photography Tagged With: chaos, HDR, Philly

Hanging Tree in the Mojave

February 4, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Yesterday I published a photo taken of a Hanging Tree outside of Jerome AZ.  This one was taken in the Mojave desert on the way to Vegas.  This one is an HDR with some Topaz Adjust.

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Filed Under: Photo education, Travel Photography Tagged With: HDR, Mojave, Topaz

Mojave Gas Station at Sunset

January 23, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Another desert shot that I’m fond of.

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Filed Under: Travel Photography Tagged With: HDR, Mojave, Sunset

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