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.