gehryville.

another exploration of downtown los angeles. this is the disney music concert hall designed by frank gehry.

this was one of many spontaneous shots i took of the building.

Road Trip

There were three and a half of us listening to music and cruising along , on our way to Pierce Collage for the Gallery Opening for the Getty Project.
What a beautiful site I said to the driver stop , slow down , I Have to get this shot, because you see I am always the driving when this gorgeous stuff happens in the sky but not this time.. Hope you enjoy.

SOGGY COOL

I love the rain, great time for fun or serious contemplation either way never a waste of time. Enjoy

Winter weather gotta love it.

I took this photograph while being trapped in my car thank g I had a camera with me. Poring ran and no jacket.

Monday Night, 9pm

I took this photo just outside of my house, and tried to edit it in camera raw. Unfortunately, I couldn't lighten it too much, because of the lights in the background. I think I will have to try this assignment again, in a location without artificial lighting.
I love the idea of this assignment though!

Outstanding in its field.

I couldn't exactly turn this into daylight but really liked it.  Have tried to photo the moon before without much success.  Took this Friday night.

So what do you all think about this insane amount of rain we are getting today? Thought I would post a photo of how I'm spending my day!

LA Fire Boat

midnight in santa clarita.

f22, 69-second shutter speed

iso 1600

the image doesn't quite look like daytime, but i am happy with how it came out. i used a high f-stop in order to capture as much of the palm tree in focus as possible. it was a windy night, which it why the leaves are blurred. but i actually like that.

Death Valley by moonlight

I had to battle wind and sand in my face and camera equipment. I spent a couple of hours here just before sunset and by moonlight - this image is by moonlight. It was really hard to keep sand out of everything! My Canon lens is in the shop for cleaning - I hope it's not ruined! Death Valley is beautiful this time of year. The desert flowers are in full bloom but not as spectacular compared to previous years, but still beautiful!

Luckily, a buddy called as I was driving home or I would have missed these shots. I pulled over at a stop sign in the desert to talk, and snapped images through the windshield with one hand while holding the cellphone with the other as the sun continued to set. The tumbleweed, snagged pretty high up on one of the telephone poles, caught my attention. In the second image, it mimics the shape of the cloud to the left of it. Love the intersection of lines.

Desert Comfort

Tried using Nik's Color Efex Pro on these two images with some real success. On both, I used "Brilliance and Warmth" to warm, and "Tonal Contrast" to make this lovely couch pop from the background and sing once again. Shot both handheld with an image stabilizing lens. The first image was taken at f22 to get the starburst effect and is surprisingly sharp. The second one is sharp because I didn't shoot at f22. Had to add the starburst from a second image I took at f22, but which was too blurry to use otherwise.

Lake Piru at night to day

The moon is coming up behind the mountain on the right. A color tint change. (f/5.6, 30 sec, ICO 400)

12:00 Midlight

These photographs are dedicated to my husband who spent 3 hours with me in the middle of the night on a not-so-desolate canyon road so I wasn't kidnapped and who took me to In-N-Out afterwards at 1:00 in the morning for a burger.



Thanks for the ratings! Looking forward to your comments also - what you do and don't like in the photo. I'm not in it to win. Just to learn! Thanks!

12:00 Midlight

12:00 Midlight

Documentary Landscape

The Colours of India by Cr Shelare - Please click on the link to view images. Amazing work!

Night to day at Lake Castaic

The reflections are quite different in the water without sun light. The full moon gave it life after dark. (Canon 5D Mark II, f/22, 5 sec, ISO 250, 24-105@73mm)

My love of the living

Playground @ nite

So I was thinking of places in walking distance from my house to try some of these night shots, mind you none of these are perfect images what so ever. But I think I got the timing right now its just down to finding the right location.

People

Is it too late to post a documentary photo? My idea of documentary photography: photographs that say something about people.

Sorry to have broken up the Blog War! I'm a little behind.

Pizza Anyone?

These picture were taken in front of Greco's New York Pizzeria in Hollywood. 4130 subway series ride in Hollywood is the largest BMX monthly group ride in the country. They meet the second Saturday of the month in Hollywood and ride to downtown L.A. and ride the redline back to Hollywood. Picture were taken 1600 @ f3.5 around 11:30 p.m.

Night to Day

I really had fun with this assignment, although I almost froze to death. I took this image at a 90 second exposure at F/22 with an ISO of 1600. It is a bit grainy. I need more practice. We should make a night time field trip with the class. I like the fact that even though it looks like day I was still able to get the tail lights on the vehicles on the freeway.

My Peaceful Spot

I love just sitting out here to unwind from a long stressful day. (when I am feeling ok)

I took this picture after 10pm @ f/36 2minutes. I had to push my ISO to 800 (I think) so it came out a little grainy but I still love this view.

What ??????????

IS IT LIVE, OR IS IT MEMOREX ?

Yeah I know..........

Valencia High School Sunset

This picture was taken from the stands at Valencia High School last week during a track practice. That track is a major wind tunnel in the evening. I could barely hold my camera still to take this picture.

Zion Utah Field Studies Class Sept 2010

One of the most amazing life experiences I have ever had was, walking through a rushing river and photographing the entire experience. While resting after this experience back at camp and because we had so much energy LOL Robin and I decided to try some night shooting. With a very swollen ankle and still frozen from the river we decide to stand in the middle of the road and stare up at the sky hoping we would not get run run over and succeed in creating a photo of the stars and sky. Of course Wendy being the biggest kid out of all of us decided to join in I think we should encourage her to post her images they are wonderful. Anyway I hope you enjoy what I came up with. Bulb and I think 125 ISO and 3,5 with a cable release I could be a little off we tried it some many different ways.

Camera Raw

I got home late tonight and the moon was high and bright above the house. Abbey was whining for me to tuck her in and Katie was running around like a naked maniac while her shower warmed up. Curtis would have appreciated my help, but the moon, and more importantly the moonlight, beckoned me to shoot. I swooped in grabbing the camera and the tripod before any one knew I was home.

The weather and air were perfect...spring is so close I can feel it. My spirits lifted. After a few shots I ditched the tripod - the wind was making the shot too unstable. Instead I laid the 7D on the side walk, pointing up to the sky. (BTW - Nick doesn't need to know that I put the camera on the ground- our secret.) I shot from the hip. The focus was on infinity. The ISO 400. The aperture f3.5. The shutter 30 secs...as long as I could go without the cable release. It was after 9 pm.

When I pulled the images up on the laptop I was disappointed. The colors weren't right. I started playing in RAW. Awe... there it is! Yes editing is allowed. I thought the before and after might be helpful.

So, one question... If I win blog wars, do I get to keep my own prize?

Sunrise at 10 pm??

This was taken at 10 pm with a 5D from school. 1600 ISO. 30 seconds. F 5.6

I think it looks like sunrise :)
The only editing in this is converting it to jpeg. I don't think for this blog wars we should be allowed to edit it. It should be all about the exposure in camera. But, I also don't like a lot of post-production editing anyway :P

Eerie stuff...

After trying the "daylight at night" approach in a couple of spots, I decided to post this one. It's a smidge blurry (my tripod is not the sturdiest of contraptions:-)), but I like how the water almost looks like glass. The image is posted straight out of the camera and shot at f3.5, 13 seconds with the ISO cranked up to 400. This was a fun assignment with some spooky results...

Since Blog Wars Has Been Extended....

I was thinking the other day (always a scary proposition) on the bus to the St. Francis Dam site that it is odd that we humans go to great lengths to visit nature or historical places. I think our forefathers would laugh at what we go through. We are loaded on buses with folks we probably don't know, given provisions just so we won't faint away (like we can't plan ourselves?!) and guided to the exact location so we can "experience" the setting. It is almost comical. Anyway in researching a historical place, I too bought into this kind of behavior, at least I can report that I did hike up to the top of one edge of where the dam once stood :)

Point Taken

These two images were taken using a 5D, a Sigma 50mm 1.4 lens

1st shot 10 seconds, 2.5, iso 100

2nd shot 20 seconds, 2.5, iso 100

I find it particularly cool to shoot up close at night. Getting the focus using a small flashlight and then setting the lens to manual is about the only way to get this type of shot with a shallow DOF. Fun exercise Wendy.

Day / Night, Santa Clarita

Day / Night. Taken with my Canon ESO 5D. At 7:58 pm, f4, 15 seconds, 24mm, ISO 100.

Is it night or is it day?  Is that the sun or the moon?  Hmmmmm

Night to day.  f4 at about 25 seconds.  All shots were made at from 10-25 seconds. 



Santa Clara River Railroad Bridge - 1898

I shot this with a 70-135mm Canon lense set at 135mm, f5, ISO400 with a 30 second exposure. This image is pretty much "as shot" with some minor adjustments in Photoshop, taken about 1 hour after sunset. I like how the light colored weeds in the foreground seem to frame the image - totally by accident.

The house at night

I shot both of these at around 9 or 10 PM las night using the Canon 5D the top one was shoot at iso 100 and the second was shot at 1600. The only light available for both shots was a street lamp outside (wich could be seen clearly ) and in the first shot I also had some light from the TV in the room next to the kitchen help with the exposure. They were both extremely warm so I tried to fix that a bit.

Making food

I saw this photo op while out searching for the perfect desert shot. 

Dessert Contrasts

This is year three, attempting to get the perfect dessert/snow-covered mountain scene.  Any feedback appreciated.