tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82152387474596904712024-03-12T19:04:08.886-07:00 My Photographed Lifeasdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-68280770322007601162018-06-12T20:28:00.000-07:002018-07-18T21:02:44.870-07:00Trips<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's an idea. Look at all the pictures you've taken on trips, starting at the most recent and going backwards. Choose one picture from each trip, maybe one you like, maybe one you overlooked. Touch it up, reprocess it, reimagine it, make it new again. Apply what you know to make a picture as you see it now, with fresh eyes, what you saw with younger eyes years ago. What stands out? How does it change the further back you go? Starting with the latest one just last week...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boulder, Colorado</td></tr>
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And proceeding to the one before that, your next most recent out-of-town stay, and the one before that, and so on all the way back.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seattle, Washington</td></tr>
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Some destinations are so close it almost feels like cheating, so you have to decide what the cut-off point is for a reasonably big enough to be memorable trip. What constitutes a vacation when you have an entire summer in wine country?</div>
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If it involves climbing a mountain, that qualifies. For sure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lassen Volcanic National Park (and Mt Shasta)</td></tr>
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Mostly, of course, it's your standard issue vacation activities. Easy to spot in the wild.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grand Canyon National Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Death Valley, California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yosemite, backpacking the high country</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Galway, Ireland at my favorite fish and chip shop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Somewhere in the Nevada desert</td></tr>
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Any further back and we're talking about film cameras. Those scanned prints are not as sharp, but still I like to think I got some pretty good shots now and then.<br />
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Especially with that Nikon Pronea S, that small format film, sleek SLR, I loved that little camera.<br />
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And that's it. Maybe I missed some, maybe there's more in a box somewhere, and there were times when I didn't take any pictures. But the process of going through them all, a photographed life, and if you had to choose... It's an interesting exercise, nothing more. It stirs up some memories, it inspires some sharing, moments of friendship when you see each other and say look at this, remember us? That time we were?<br />
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asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-13805842364285460802018-06-10T17:04:00.000-07:002018-07-01T08:51:35.451-07:00Train Ride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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You meet a lot of different people on a train journey and have plenty of time to get to know them, but I found they tend to fall into three general categories. There's retirees, enjoying the leisurely pace, scenery, and comfort you don't get in other forms of transportation; there's tourists who are curious to experience the train and wanted to try it this one time, to take in a large swath of scenery on the journey across a continent; and there's people who really, really like trains.<br />
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There was the young man with the train magazine wearing an Amtrak baseball cap. A British man taking his first American transcontinental journey and looking forward to crossing the Rocky Mountains. Several collectors of model trains who chatted endlessly about their favorite hobby. The tireless and friendly staff whose expertise and enthusiasm made the collectors wish they had a job operating big trains. And a woman who claimed the bullet trains in other countries weren't as fun because, "You go so fast you don't get to see as much of the scenery." I don't think that's true, but it's good conversation.<br />
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This started out like most things, with someone hearing about it and asking and several of us saying yes that sounds like a good idea. The California Zephyr was a hundred bucks from Emeryville to Denver, cheaper than the plane ride back, on Memorial Day weekend. And friends who learned we were taking this 32 hour ride would ask, "Are you just going to sit there and stare out the window?" Yes. Yes guess I am.<br />
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There was no wi-fi. I have my books, rather my kindle which I like to imagine is my private library complete with lounge chair and rolling bookshelf ladder, and I have my laptop, programming tasks to concentrate on. Algorithms. They don't require Internet connectivity. The bar is open, everyone is relaxed, and I'm just finishing my book as the sun goes down. I looked across the landscape of the American west and said yes, I think I will stare out the window. I have nothing better to do.<br />
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At night it got dark and quiet except for the rhythm of the rails and gentle swaying of the cars. The seats were not the most comfortable and did not recline completely, but the steady motion and sound lulled me to a gentle slumber.<br />
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We had a breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the dining car.<br />
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About the pictures. Before any journey I do some research, usually starting with a google search in the form of "photography in ________ ." I see if any photography blogs have written about where I'm going, what tips and tricks are out there, and what advice people have asked for and gotten for my desired location and/or mode of transportation.<br />
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The general consensus on trains is this. Rolling through the scenery is quite impressive and you'll be tempted to snap photos of all the beautiful mountains, trees, and animals you pass along the way. However, you're looking through a dirty window and the camera will accentuate every smudge, reflection, and glare on that pane of glass, hiding what you swear was the most picturesque scene you ever saw. Instead, you'll see something like this:<br />
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Here's a picture of an eagle I took.<br />
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This is about as good as I could do going around a bend.<br />
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So resist the temptation to shoot out the window. Try interior shots, people interacting, or the train itself. If you want a landscape picture, go outside, take a hike, put yourself in the landscape. If you want that classic train coming 'round the bend photo, wait by the side of the tracks as a train goes by.<br />
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So sit back, open your favorite book, and watch the world go by.<br />
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<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-72088580009317846912018-04-21T11:50:00.001-07:002018-04-21T11:50:50.966-07:00In the NeighborhoodI was standing on the corner photographing something utterly boring just for practice, when I quickly turned to capture this cyclist riding through an empty intersection. Quick without looking, too quick, as I swung the camera around I got a lot of motion blur, ruining the photo. Or did I?<br />
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I started out by trying to disguise the motion blur cranking up the clarity slider, dehaze, and contrast, crushing the blacks and selectively desaturating the reds just for kicks. Still not enough, I opened it in photoshop and applied a gaussian blur layer to smooth out the shake.<br />
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For reference here is the original:<br />
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And zooming in you can see the eye-straining shake in the buildings and trees.<br />
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Art. Sure.<br />
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<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-86531268465199447362018-04-13T11:25:00.000-07:002018-04-13T11:25:21.219-07:00Sunset Study #2: Walk on the Ocean<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Mt Tamalpais State Park, Panorama Highway, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, sunset, crowds gathered, spectacular. </div>
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It started on a whim, a free afternoon, a drive out to the coast, a golden hour shoot with a wide angle lens. 17mm takes in a lot of scenery.<br />
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Although I found at 35mm I could frame it better.<br />
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I walked down to this tree that struck me.<br />
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Then, just before sunset, I made my way back to the road, 1.5 miles, and drove up to a point where people had gathered to watch the sun set.<br />
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Photographers gathered too.<br />
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And then it got dark, the park closed, and we went home.<br />
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<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-55001842278950987072018-04-10T18:58:00.000-07:002018-04-10T18:58:52.286-07:00Sunset Study #1: The Local ParkAfter work I saw the sky full of high, wispy clouds and I could tell it was going to be a good sunset. I had about two hours so I went to a nearby park featuring a big hill overlooking the bay, the city, the golden gate. Claremont Canyon. Canon 6D with a 17-40mm ultra-wide zoom.<br />
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New hiking shoes, trying them for the first time and they work great. After many many tries I may have finally found the perfect shoes for me. The hill was steep, and then the next hill even steeper. Between was this view.<br />
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And flowers were in bloom. I don't know flowers, but I know pretty.<br />
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And the bees were busy. Bee happy, bee better, bee yourself. To get this shot at 17mm - ultra wide angle, I had to get in close, in the middle of a little swarm. A little nervous but the bees were busy with flowers and didn't bother me. Much.<br />
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Then the sun set behind the city. Switch to a 70-300mm telephoto.<br />
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Not quite behind the city, nor behind the bridge and farther to the right, behind the hills. But the light, that refracted sunlight spread around the horizon in golden red hues.<br />
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The sky faded to dark and the city lights came on.<br />
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It got darker, and I went home.<br />
<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-84869461709773420932018-03-22T15:26:00.002-07:002018-03-22T15:26:15.864-07:00I Am Not a ProDelusions of grandeur are as good as a prerequisite for achievement, shoot for the moon live among the stars and all that. But there is such a thing as the limits of my ability, and digital manual focus shooting friends at a music festival, or more accurately during SXSW, walking back up South Congress after a dinner of Torchy's Tacos, stopping by a cowboy hat shop trying on cowboy hats while a rockabilly band rocked out like nobody's business.<br />
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Look closely, the subject is out of focus and the guitarist is in focus. Exactly opposite how it should be. Because I had manual focus set to three meters instead of one. Using manual focus at night is a pro trick street shooting technique and hella difficult to keep up with, where the focus is all the time, are you shooting close or shooting far? Do you even know? So what should have been a focus distance of half a meter was more like, she's blurry and the rockabilly guitar is clear as day.<br />
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I may as well have used a cell phone. Except for the extra color depth and contrast I was able to use to turn a slightly out of focus picture into a more artistic soft focus.<br />
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From now on I'll use autofocus like a normal person, with the full-press snap option, itself a <a href="https://medium.com/@mestevie/no-af-required-ricoh-gr-with-snap-focus-for-street-photography-1c01d1095bca" target="_blank">neat semi-pro trick</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://michaelkowalczyk.eu/gear/ricoh-gr-zone-focusing-tips/" target="_blank">Ricoh GR Zone Focusing Tips for Street Photography</a><br />
<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-47149462521462349622018-03-04T21:52:00.000-08:002018-06-10T22:50:03.663-07:00Camera StrapsIf your camera has a wrist strap, always put it around your wrist before taking a picture. Yes, you may drop the camera, but you might also do this.<br />
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Notice the rainbow? No, of course not, because a big blurry camera strap is in the way!<br />
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There's a treasure in every book.<br />
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The one time I don't bring a real camera, this beautiful full rainbow appears, and at the end of the rainbow, a bookstore. Each book a treasure, and a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Sure, a smartphone can record it, but a smartphone just doesn't have the dynamic range or color depth needed for challenging lighting conditions, or the subtlety of a rainbow's colors. There simply aren't enough photons hitting that tiny camera sensor.<br />
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Not as vibrant as it could have been. But it'll have to do.<br />
<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-5344392106960382462018-02-26T14:25:00.003-08:002018-02-26T14:25:38.199-08:00Chinese New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dragons shot with a Canon 6D, 50mm f/1.2asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-74285022780010800712018-02-23T21:15:00.001-08:002018-04-10T19:02:47.980-07:00A Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-13597052180910114742018-02-14T20:59:00.000-08:002018-02-14T21:11:38.028-08:00Shadow of the WorldSometimes I forget how beautiful a lunar eclipse can be. Then early Wednesday morning, 5AM, I see a reminder in sharp relief, blood red moon flying through the shadow of the world against a background of distant stars.<br />
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Backing up a few days, it was late Sunday afternoon and I found myself walking up this hill to see the nearly full moon rising in the blue sky in front of me. There it is, swinging its way around to eclipse. At this moment I knew I would be ready.<br />
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Now a word about being on time.<br />
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The solar system bodies are so massive, there's so much momentum balanced against so much gravity, that the inevitable wobbles of things flying through empty space are held minuscule in comparison to what is rightly called the celestial clockwork. Like clockwork, it is on time. It's important to get yourself in tune with the moon and the sun a few days in advance, prepare your circadian rhythms to coincide with the meeting of the two. If you're late, you miss it. Sleep in, you miss it. Running just a little behind schedule, and you miss it. It's been a long time since I woke up at 3AM to see something like this but as I woke up, got on my way, arrived, there was such excitement I wondered why I don't do this all the time.<br />
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Last year's solar eclipse happened on time, to the second, as did this year's lunar eclipse. Supermoon, blue moon, blood moon. What really mattered to me is that it would be low to the horizon, before sunrise, where I could photograph it framed with some landmark.<br />
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I wasn't the only one with this idea.<br />
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The moon went into eclipse high in the sky, and as I drove to my planned spot, I saw and stopped in front of the Palace of Fine Arts because the scene was just too perfect. Even handheld with a micro-4/3 compact camera.<br />
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Of course, when I got to the parking lot there were already people lined up with cameras. The late night photo geek community! I love it!<br />
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So... here's what went right...<br />
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<li>Preparing my kit - I put everything I thought I would need in a backpack the day before. The plan was to wake up and grab this one bag as I walk, zombie-like, out the door. </li>
<li>Not my first eclipse - Practice makes perfect! There are some tricks to photographing the moon, mostly around getting a precise manual focus and eliminating even the slightest vibration. You go out, you photograph, you go back home and see what you can improve. You get better each time. </li>
<li>Planning ahead - It's easy nowadays to know exactly where the moon will rise or set from any location using a phone app. I was thinking about this in the weeks before and exploring different places I might want to be. In the end, I chose a spot where the moon would set behind the Golden Gate Bridge. As it turns out, a lot of other people had reached the same conclusion, as I learned when I looked for parking!</li>
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<li>Not doing a practice run - I thought about Saturday night, waking up at 4AM, driving a short distance somewhere, and photographing the moon, but I didn't. I slept in. I was lucky I didn't forget anything critical, or anything that couldn't be improvised around. Mostly.</li>
<li>Condensation - As sunrise approached the lens fogged up something fierce, and I didn't even notice at first. So a bunch of photos in the middle of the series had fog blur. This is also when I realized I hadn't brought a lens cloth. Luckily many hiking shirts have one sewed in, and I had a small microfiber bag. But still, some of those photos had some blur.<br /><br />This is a great picture otherwise</li>
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These things are not easy. These things are worth it. We run around the surface of this spinning globe, chasing the sun, chasing the moon, chasing the shadow of the world.<br />
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Do the math. Know the time, place, and exposure.<br />
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Framing.<br />
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Decisive moments.<br />
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Just paying attention and being, really being there.<br />
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Knowing these moments are what make up life.<br />
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And it's good to know I'm not the only crazy one out there.<br />
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By now we've established that a full frame camera with 24mm f/1.4 lens is my favorite setup for night landscapes and starscapes. And if we find ourselves looking out over a valley under a brilliant night sky, and if I mistakenly left the lens - and the tripod - back at the hotel, I can capture the scene almost as well with a good pocket camera.<br />
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Another thing we've learned is that watching someone else take pictures is really boring.<br />
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It had been a long day, up Four Mile Trail to Glacier Point, then back down to the Alwhanee, er Majestic Hotel in time for dinner and a sunset. We were driving back when we passed Tunnel View. We both noticed a crowd of people milling about in the darkness.<br />
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"Hey look, lots of people checking out the view. In the dark."<br />
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And we pulled in. Plenty of parking available, and as our eyes adjusted to the darkness a beautiful dome of stars revealed itself. A crescent moon illuminated the landscape. We stood in awe. And that's when I realized I'd forgotten to bring the astro lens and tripod. No matter, I have two good cameras with me, the Canon 6D with ultra-wide zoom in the trunk of our car with my backpack, and my Ricoh GR compact, in my pocket as always. I figured the GR has an ASP-C sensor - same as you get in most DSLRs - and a relatively fast and wide lens. Being on hand, the GR became my choice. It also has a flat bottom suitable for propping up on a rock wall. So I prop it up, and after a few minutes of fiddling, I'd captured the night scene as we remember it.<br />
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Shoot the Stars</h2>
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Just about any modern digital camera can take a starscape photograph. All you need is a dark sky, an steady mount, and some knowledge about your camera's features. Little secret: If the camera is very still you can leave the shutter open for a long time and collect a lot of light. While shooting handheld I don't like to go slower than 1/125, or if it's very dark 1/60 if I hold still - I like a fast shutter speed to minimize shake blur for sharper photos. However, photographing the stars requires a lot of light, and the limiting factor here is the rotation of the earth making the stars appear to move across the picture, smearing their light on the sensor. The wider the angle the longer it takes to produce these star trails. If you explore the googles and the photo blogs you can find some handy charts illustrating theoretical limits of different lens and sensor combinations. My rule of thumb is something like...</div>
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Pointing the camera further north - or south - closer to the celestial pole where the apparent motion of the stars is faster, allows more open shutter time, while for me some of the more interesting stuff (Orion, Milky Way core, and so on) is near the equator where there's less time. So with the same setup I might use a 20 second exposure for Cassiopeia, and 15 seconds for Sagittarius.<br />
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Aperture? As wide open as possible, stopping down just enough to make sure the corners are sharp.<br />
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ISO? How much can your sensor take before getting noisy? That's something you'll learn from trial and error, experimentation, and photo discussion groups.<br />
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For example, my Ricoh GR has an equivalent field of view of 28mm and 15 seconds will get plenty of light and limit star trails. With the 6D I usually go for a sensor speed of ISO 3200 or even 6400 (I once got a spectacular black and white at 25,600 camping under the milky way at high altitude and crystal clear skies) but the GR is a lot cleaner at 1600. So 15 seconds at ISO 1600 and f/2.8 is my go-to setting under dark skies.<br />
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There's a few numbers you have to learn, but once you learn them, you can pretty much set the exposure the same way every time, and you'll get a feel for adjusting this for different conditions... moonlight, car headlights, clouds, and so on. With experience you'll learn what works.<br />
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The last thing everyone wants is to stand around while you fiddle endlessly with a complicated camera. You should be able to set up and take this shot in the same amount of time it takes to organize people into a group photo.<br />
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One skill you absolutely need to master is manual focus. Again, the Internet has great resources and how-to articles. The short answer is to focus on a bright star using the camera's LCD screen at maximum zoom. If you're using a fully manual lens you can even mark the spot on the focuser. Infinity will be in the same place every time.<br />
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Framing Your Shot</h3>
The next challenge of photographing in a dark environment is simply pointing the camera. When it's a dark night, your LCD screen is solid black, making adjustments tricky. Even with a pentaprism DSLR, it can be difficult to see what's in the corner of the frame. So how do we frame the shot? Trial and error.<br />
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In the following sequence you see a number of photos where I take the picture, look at it on the camera's LCD screen, and move the camera in a direction and amount that is basically a best guess.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Better. I see the whole tree and more sky now</td></tr>
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Obviously if each picture is a 15 second exposure, this can take a long time, right? So, we can fix that. Instead of using the camera's optimal settings, crank up the ISO to maximum and shorten the exposure time to a few seconds. The pictures will be noisy as all get out, nothing you'll want to show off, but they will let you see the composition of the shot and quickly zero in on the picture you want.<br />
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Once you have it framed, put your settings in the optimal mode for that final shot. With some post processing and noise reduction, you might find you have a picture you'll be proud to hang in the living room or share on your social face gram.<br />
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The final skill for taking these pictures, for taking a picture like you would any vacation snapshot, is most critical. You must be able to do all of the above, quickly, in the dark. Forget to focus? The shot is ruined. Auto ISO? Ruined. Switching to the wrong exposure? Accidentally push the wrong button because it's dark? Forget it. You should be able to say, "Wow, look at that sky," get out your camera, focus, adjust the framing with quick shots, and reset the exposure for your final picture, all before your friends and family get tired of waiting for you. Not that sitting under the stars is the worst burden you could impose on them! But the more you're there and present for the people around you, rather than just obsessing with your camera, the better for everyone. </div>
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Nobody does anything perfectly the first time. It takes practice, it takes attention to detail, it takes constant self-improvement. A hobby is something you spend time on, and this is a good one. So next time there's a meteor shower, invite your friends to spend a night out in the woods watching shooting stars. Bring a picnic basket. While everyone is ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the celestial show, you'll have all the time you need. </div>
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Why do I take pictures? And why so much time to make pictures better? Why carry a camera? Sure, important events with loved ones make good enough reasons, and sharing memories with loved ones is good enough reason to want to get better at it. But that's not always the reason. What about the abstract, the artistic, the playful dancing with light?<br />
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And what if I'm stuck in a rut? What if I want a challenge? Photo exercises! Introduce rules that force me to only take certain kinds of pictures. I've listed here some possibilities. Each theme has its own theme and restrictions, which can be adhered to for a period of time, say a week, or for a number of photos, say ten satisfactory pictures I'd be willing to share in an exhibit. Either way, you must follow the rules, and no sneaky going back to your favorite settings while the game is in play!<br />
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Some ideas that pop into my head for no particular reason:<br />
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<li>Black and white only. Obvious. Photogs have made careers out of this one. </li>
<li>A dominant color, or complimentary colors. Pick one or two accordingly.</li>
<li>A particular shape: spheres, triangles, etc.</li>
<li>In-camera only, no post processing. </li>
<li>An everyday activity, say people getting coffee.</li>
<li>Things that move.</li>
<li>Things that stay still.</li>
<li>An emotion: love, friendship, sadness, or envy. </li>
<li>A time of day. A sunrise series seems obvious here. </li>
<li>A part of the body: eyes, hands. </li>
<li>Take a picture every day for a year.</li>
<li>Then don't take any pictures at all. Any missed opportunity jump out at you? What sticks in your mind?</li>
<li>Pick a "master" to study, a famous photographer, then try to replicate their best shots. It's okay to steal ideas!<br /><br />It's all practice.</li>
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They were the best birthday present and the best camp shoes, from the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the top of Kilimanjaro. When they started falling apart I took them to a cobbler and had the stitching fixed. When the entire heel strap let go, I had to reluctantly admit that these shoes have given me all they're going to give, and it's time to say goodbye.<br />
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And with that, I welcome my new pair of shoes. Brand new shoes!<br />
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It's the same shoes, really, Keen Newports, just in a different color. They feel tight, and that makes me realize just how long I'd hung on to the original pair, loose and worn as they were. The new pair feels... well, new. In the first few hours of wear the stiff fabric will mold gradually around my feet, feeling progressively more a like part of me. I can't help but think about all the new adventures I'll have in these shoes, and I'm eager to begin. My feet have an itch only a mountain or canyon can scratch.<br />
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In Chicago, I took the same picture I take when I come across any building of this moniker, but this time I had friends to help me. As we collaborated on this piece, I noticed a group of three people watching us. I don't want to stereotype, but let's just say they looked "rural" and "Trump-voterish," and after we took the picture, as we were walking past them I heard one of them say to his friends (not to us), "Too bad Hillary doesn't have a hotel, we could do that too."<br />
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And as we walked away I said to my two friends, "But Hillary doesn't have a hotel, does she? Because that's not what she does."<br />
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And the two groups of friends continued on their separate ways.<br />
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This is the question I both dread and look forward to the most, because it's never a question of which camera is best, or even what's best for the money. It's all about what camera is right for you, what kind of pictures you want to take, what fits your style, what you're willing to carry. We're talking about ourselves as much as our cameras, and I love talking about both.<br />
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Now instead of thinking about which camera, let's talk about which lens. It's the lens that gathers the light, it's the lens that projects the image. If you project a good, sharp image on any modern sensor and you're good. Choose the camera around the lens, and only then think about other features. You get a good lens, you'll take good pictures.<br />
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Okay, so we're thinking about lenses. Aren't there a lot of different kinds? Yes, but there is a list of standard-ish focal lengths to narrow things down. These are all 35mm equivalent in terms of field-of-view. The field of view, how much of the scene is in your frame, depends on the ratio between focal length and sensor size, so smaller sensor cameras will get a similar looking picture from a proportionally shorter lens, and even if we're talking about smaller sensors, when you read about focal length and zoom range the manufacturers talk in 35mm equivalence, what size lens would produce the same image framing, field of view, on a 35mm sensor. Got it?<br />
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In the beginning, there was 35mm film, and camera lenses were designed to project on that exact size rectangle. That means the first digital cameras would need sensors of that same size so photographers could use their existing lenses (pros spend way more on glass than they do on cameras). As technology advanced and digital cameras got better, it became obvious the sensors didn't need to be nearly so big to produce great pictures, and that's how we got our smaller formats, crop-frame DSLRs, micro 4/3", and (totally good enough for anyone) 1" and 1/2.3" compacts.<br />
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But we still talk about 35mm equivalent, the lens that would produce the same image framing for whatever size sensor you have (the first picture in this list, for example, is 10.9mm on a micro-4/3"). So that's the frame of reference for these "standard" focal lengths and the kinds of pictures they take.<br />
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Why these numbers in particular? Because in the old days, zoom lenses sucked. Non-zoom, prime lenses were sharper and better in low light and fast action situations, so manufacturers, working with photographers to optimize around different uses, settled on this set of lens designs and that's what made the pictures that everyone got used to.<br />
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Landscape pictures, think wide open spaces.<br />
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Street photography, imagine scenes of life in 1970s New York City by Garry Winogrand.<br />
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Vacation photos, family pictures, and generally people in fun places having a good time. If I only had one focal length this would be it.<br />
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The "standard lens," classic mid 20th century photos and Humans of New York.<br />
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<b><i>85mm</i></b><br />
Portrait.<br />
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<b><i>135mm</i></b><br />
Super portrait.<br />
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Anything above this range is super-telephoto. Anything below is ultra wide-angle, my favorite, although (or perhaps because) it is the most challenging to frame. Like if you're at a street festival you can frame the entire street.<br />
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Ultra-wide angle.<br />
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Super-telephoto.<br />
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Of course nowadays zooms are so good you don't choose a single focal length, you get a whole range that includes several of these in a single lens. You may be tempted to get a very large range zoom that covers everything, like an 18-400mm. Don't! There's always a tradeoff and a large zoom range will be less sharp, heavier, and often both. My favorite lens is a 17-40mm but someday I'll "trade up" to a 16-35mm -- only a 2x zoom! The most popular general purpose zoom is 24-70mm (3x) or the almost-as-good 24-100mm (4x).<br />
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You can still buy prime (non-zoom) lenses in those focal lengths (and people often do). Even with zooms we keep going back to the old standard focal lengths of tradition. I still prefer 35mm over 40mm and if, with a slight twist of zoom, I take a picture at 36mm, it bugs me for some reason.<br />
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But it's up to you how you like it.<br />
<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-78684818977730458482017-10-22T22:52:00.001-07:002017-11-14T18:04:16.037-08:00Follow Your Sunbeam: A Cat's Guide to Success in Business, Relationships, and Naps<br />
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Sometimes I look at my reflection in the window and think, how did I achieve such success in life?<br />
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I look out into the world and I realize there's two kinds of cats. Those who are in sunbeams and those who aren't. We all want to be the cat in the sunbeam but I've learned that sometimes we are, sometimes we aren't. And we can't just sit around waiting for the sunbeam to come to our window. We have to seek it out, and find a spot to lie down wherever it is. Even then, it's important to keep a lookout, because the sunbeam will move.<br />
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My pursuit of sunbeams may seem intense, but when you enjoy warm sunlight as much as I do, it doesn't feel like work. Eternal vigilance is just the price of warm naps.<br />
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Floors, windows, it doesn't matter. Where the sun goes, I go.<br />
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Do sunbeams sometimes hide under chairs? Yes they do. </div>
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It takes a lot of work to achieve this kind of bliss. </div>
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<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-22792406396548211942017-10-07T11:39:00.000-07:002017-11-14T18:12:16.485-08:00The Curmudgeon Tourist<br />
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You know what the Grand Canyon is? It's a hole in the ground with a gift shop.<br />
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Why anyone would want to visit a place like that is beyond me. My only guess is that everyone who ever went there was talked into it by someone else.<br />
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Visiting National Parks</h2>
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Before we get into what national parks are like to visit, let me say something about these pictures, because when visiting national parks, it's important to carry a camera so you can blend in with the other tourists. The camera I carry has this "effects" button, like an Instagram filter or something. For example, there's this one black and white mode that makes it look like I take all my pictures in the 1930s.</div>
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This is useful if you want to see what The Grand Canyon would look like a hundred years ago if it were crawling with time traveling tourists from the future.</div>
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This is a person looking at a map. Looking at maps is a popular activity at national parks. People travel from all over the world to look at maps here.</div>
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Looking at maps is such a popular activity, the park just went ahead and installed a large map next to the gift shop. People come from all over the world to see it.<br />
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Sometimes they put a map at the top of a mountain. It might take all morning to get there, but when you see the map I think you'll agree it's worth it.<br />
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Another popular activity is sitting in cars. Pictured here is a typical vacation spent going to and from Yosemite National Park.<br />
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If you think that's bad, look at these poor suckers behind me. It's okay to laugh at them. They should have left earlier.<br />
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The thing about traffic is it gives everyone something to complain about, and plenty of time of time to complain about it. It also gives you time to figure out how to take your camera out of its 1930s mode.<br />
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If you're willing to forego driving and take an airplane instead, you might learn that other countries have national parks also. Iceland, for example, has an excellent set of maps along what they call "The Ring Road," probably because it's ringed with maps.<br />
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This is Skaftafell National Park where we stopped to look at some maps. While using the restroom I overheard an old man tell his friend, "I don't need to climb up another hill just to see another waterfall." Now there's someone who knows what he doesn't want. I have to admire that.<br />
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So what did we do? We left the park, drove down this long, rough, 4x4 road, just so we could climb another hill and see another waterfall.<br />
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Some people never learn.<br />
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Taking Pictures</h2>
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Hey look. It's Ansel Freaking Adams! Hauled that big tripod all the way up here, did you? Let me get a picture of that with my phone for you. There you go. Done.<br />
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Asking people to take your picture is a popular social activity. You know how in Hawaii, "Aloha" means both hello and goodbye, among other expressions of friendship? "Will you take our picture?" is kind of the same thing for national parks.<br />
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Everyone with a camera thinks they know the rule of thirds but most of them don't, not really. Not really really. If you want a good picture, hand your phone to whomever has the biggest camera on the observation deck and ask them to frame you in a Fibonacci spiral. If they say, "What?" yank your phone out of their hands and give it to the person with the second biggest camera. Repeat until you're satisfied with the results.<br />
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If you're lucky, you might get a good picture of you visiting the park sometime in the 1930s.<br />
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The sun rises on the treat platform and sets over the dining room bed. In between is nap time. My name is Marble. I'm a cat and I share my home with two humans.<br />
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The two humans sleep in a large human bed, but only at night. It makes a nice warm spot between them, perfect for napping, cuddling, and tunneling under the blankets, but then in the morning they get up and leave, and every morning I ask why they would ever leave the best place in the house for naps and cuddling. And despite my best arguments, they get out of bed. As a compromise, they put treats on the top of my treat platform, in the corner by the sunbeam. Sometimes they hum You're So Vain by Carly Simon, sometimes they make up words for me.<br />
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They think I don't know their songs, but I do. I listen intently to everything.</div>
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When they're away I read their books. It's important to know the humans. They live in my house and must be understood. </div>
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After the humans leave for work, it's time for patrol. I have to check the house, see if any toys need to be played with. Sometimes toys hide under the TV, they're clever like that. But I check every nook and crevice. </div>
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If a toy is out of place, I stalk it, track it down, wait for my moment to pounce.<br />
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After pouncing, it's time for a nap. </div>
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Then it's back on patrol. I not only have to keep the toys in order, I also guard the windows in case that old tomcat Moses comes prowling around. </div>
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It's important to patrol every part of the house.<br />
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After patrols it's time for another nap, and as the sun moves to the dining room bed, I follow.<br />
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Eventually the humans will come home. I keep watch until they do.<br />
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Humans go to work every day, except vacations and special holidays called humans work from home day. When the humans are home, life is good, because humans have laps.<br />
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A lap is a wonderful thing and it is made from a combination of humans and books.<br />
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Laps can also be made with a television.<br />
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Sometimes a dog stays with us and I have to watch the dog.<br />
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After books, television, and watching the dog, the humans finally - finally! - take my advice and go to bed, where I have already left toys for them to play with. When they're both in bed I jump between them, that's my spot. While they're asleep I'm out on night patrol.<br />
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Come morning, I'll be up on my treat platform ready to do it all over again.<br />
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My name is Marble. I'm a cat.<br />
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"Orton Effect?" You know it, it's that dreamy Hobbit-in-a-forest look. That glowing nature dreamscape. If you've ever seen a landscape photo that seems to, well, glow, you've seen a picture inspired by the work of <a href="http://www.michaelortonphotography.com/" target="_blank">Michael Orton</a> who, in the 1980s, took to overlaying two photos of the same scene, one normal and the other blurred and overexposed. The normal photo provides the detail, and the blurred overlay provides the glow. This can be done today with a single picture in photoshop by duplicating it, blurring it, and lightening it. There are a few tutorials online on using the technique.<br />
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<a href="https://petapixel.com/2017/09/30/create-dreamy-landscape-photos-orton-effect/" target="_blank">Create Dreamy Landscape Photos with the Orton Effect</a><br />
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<a href="https://photographylife.com/is-the-orton-effect-taking-over-landscape-photography" target="_blank">Is the Orton Effect Taking over Landscape Photography?</a><br />
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While the author of the second article worries it's being overused, and certainly a strong Orton effect is obvious, using a light touch can add a subtle quality to landscapes without making every picture look like Lord of the Rings.<br />
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To try it out, I took an old photo from a trip to Mendocino, taken with the small point-and-shoot Canon DSC-TX10, a camera released in 2011 - the picture was taken maybe a year later. This is working with just a JPEG so the same result can be achieved with any camera phone - indeed, modern phones will take pictures far superior to this.<br />
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I started with the photo as it came out of the camera. A not-bad-but-not-great shot of the classic Mendocino coastline.<br />
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I then applied some sharpening and contrast with Photoshop layers. Now it has more "pop" but maybe too much. Definitely too much. Let's soften that up a bit.<br />
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I copied the picture, applied a Gaussian blur, and lightened it. This will provide the "glow" around the details. </div>
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The final product, with the blurred layer nearly transparent (around a 25-30% opacity), softens the harsh contrast of the developed picture. It still has contrast and detail, but a subtle glow softens the landscape.<br />
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I can use the same technique but mask it so the effect is applied to the landscape and not the person (me) in this photo.<br />
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So not bad for an old JPEG. Now what happens if we try it with a modern RAW digital negative out of a DSLR? To find out, we went to Rowena Crest Viewpoint in northern Oregon.<br />
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Straight out of the camera you get a typical DSLR image, nice, if a little washed out:<br />
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With sharpening, contrast, and color correction, I brought out the blue sky and the trees.<br />
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Sharp! A little too sharp. A lot of the Lightroom sliders that "clean up" a picture are based on edge-finding algorithms, so after sharpening, dehaze, contrast, etc., you could find sharp edges make things look cartoonish, like everything has a pencil outline.<br />
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Lightly adding a gaussian blur layer brings back some of that softness. You still get contrast in the detail, but it looks less like a drawing and more like a picture.<br />
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And, the same location masking the subject of photo...<br />
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The fun of a hobby is finding new new tricks, trying them out, learning and perfecting the technique. While I wouldn't do this to every photo, it's good to know the otherworldly look is available if I want to use it, and the more subtle version can be applied if I want it. Learn and grow is the name of the game.<br />
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<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-18302737975390774912017-09-24T20:18:00.000-07:002017-10-05T20:03:15.147-07:00Sometimes a BirdAlights upon a tree in front of you, your camera in hand, ready, even with a short lens. And the sun, illuminating. You raise your hand right to it, from the shadows, so close you scarcely have time to believe, and capture the image with a click. Startled, it flies away.<br />
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They say your first total eclipse is like nothing else, that it induces a primal response quite unlike any other experience. Even astronomers say this. Some people who experience it once become hooked and spend the rest of their lives traveling around the world every two or three years chasing the next one. Me, I'm not fazed. I'm not after some transcendental experience. I've "done" astronomy, I know how the solar system moves, I have a mathematical familiarity with orbital mechanics and I've stood in a shadow before. An eclipse crossing nearly the entire continental U.S. was to me simply an amazing opportunity and I wanted to see it, perhaps try my hand at a challenging bit of celestial photography.<br />
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I didn't expect it to affect me the way it did. I didn't expect my nervous system to completely wig out at the sight of a black sun high in the midday sky. You don't realize what a profound impact the sun has on your senses, so ever-present as to be impalpable, and for two minutes I felt the absence of something I didn't even know was there. I not only saw the eclipse, I felt it, and with my nerves going full tilt in the throes of synesthesia I'd swear I could even hear it.<br />
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A Modicum of Preparation</h2>
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There are a number of ways to safely view a solar eclipse. Eclipse glasses (be careful you get good ones, and undamaged), a pinhole viewer (the safest method), or you can use a small telescope, either with a solar filter over the front or with a projection system, which is what I used.<br />
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This is a cheap-ish 70mm portable scope, and has a clever dual lens cap that lets you stop it down to 40mm. That big lens is a magnifying glass and it can get hot, so using less of it means less chance to melt the little plastic bits inside. </div>
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The plans for this setup were available on the NASA website and it's pretty simple to build with parts from the local hardware store. A funnel is cut to snugly fit the eyepiece at the narrow end while a projection screen is pulled taut over the wide end, in this case I used a white shower curtain (two layers) and a large hose clamp to hold it in place. I did this a mere week before the eclipse, tried it in the back yard, and it worked. I could see sunspots. </div>
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I like the projection setup better than the filter for two reasons. One, it's much, much cheaper, but more significantly, the projection screen allows several people to watch at once, and we had a lot of people wandering by to take a look. </div>
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With this for viewing, I turned my attention to the camera. I bought a solar filter for my 300mm zoom lens which goes on the Canon 6D which goes on a sturdy tripod. B&H photo threw in a set of five solar glasses for free with my purchase, so we had some to share. And with that, we were ready to go. </div>
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A Modicum of Driving</h2>
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Suitably equipped, we just had to get to Madras, OR, in the path of totality. Getting there involved some driving, so for much of the trip the sun looked like this.</div>
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There wasn't a lot of traffic on the way there. We flew into Portland and came down from the north, spent a day in Bend before driving up to Madras, the night before. It was only an hour drive, getting there. Getting out would not be so easy.<br />
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Sleeping in Cars</h2>
We camped in a field, and when I say camped, we slept in our cars. This field was just a giant parking lot and the whole night I was thinking oh boy is this the wrong place to be how are we ever getting out of here this has to be the least scenic location we could have picked in the entire world.<br />
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We were directed to our spot.<br />
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People just hung out and chilled beneath the starry sky.<br />
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We watched the stars a bit ourselves before turning in. <br />
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Good Morning Dusty Field!</h2>
Morning came and everyone awoke. Now we could see where we really were.<br />
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A parking lot.<br />
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But you know what, it was more community than parking lot. People brought all kinds of telescopes and viewing instruments, and everyone was walking around excited to check out what the neighbors had, who were of course happy to share.<br />
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The obligatory jokers in tinfoil hats. They were there, too.<br />
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Somebody was preparing to take a balloon ride. That must have been a sight. Somewhere up above a skydiver's plane was getting ready.<br />
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That solar scope on the right is a fancy bit of kit.<br />
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My own plan was as simple as I could manage. With the telescope projector for viewing, my camera would take a picture every few minutes until totality. First, I had to determine the proper exposure. At 300mm, the aperture set to f/11 should produce a nice sharp image, and after taking a series of test shots with different exposures, examining the histograms, I decided 1/125s was best.<br />
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When totality hit, the plan was to quickly remove the solar filter and cycle through a series of shots with different exposure times. I had no idea which one would work, all I could do was trust at least one of them would. I also had a compact camera for crowd shots and if I'm very lucky, a crowd shot with totality in the sky (spoiler alert: I was not very lucky).<br />
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And before we knew it, it had begun. The moon was edging in front of the sun.<br />
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Taking a bite.</div>
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Everyone watched in rapt attention.<br />
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Bam! Totality.<br />
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It's impossible to capture in a picture, but there are two aspects to the image. With a short exposure the sky appears black and you can see the faint prominences, red solar flares on the edge.<br />
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With a longer exposure you see the solar corona, hot gas ejected from the sun, faint enough that it is washed out in normal daylight. The sky wasn't completely black, more a dark blue, strange color. And there's a star just below the sun.<br />
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Totality ends with a flash of light, as the edge of the sun reappears, forming what's known as a "diamond ring."<br />
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We had loaded up snacks, science podcasts, and playlists on the theme (Total Eclipse of the Heart, Dark Side of the Moon, You're So Vain, and so on), and with a full tank of gas we were prepared to sit in the car along with everyone else.<br />
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There's one road out and the speed limit signs are only there to tease us. Don't be fooled by this picture. If we had been able to go 12mph the whole way I would have been so happy.<br />
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<br />asdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06589403203498589751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215238747459690471.post-84307521272381738862017-09-21T13:17:00.000-07:002017-09-21T15:54:03.497-07:00Mobile Photo Lab FAILFor those of us who use cameras (the kind not embedded in a phone - how novel!), developing photos on a laptop is the easiest and most powerful way to create great pictures. But who wants to take a laptop on vacation? I'm trying to come up with a lightweight solution to develop and share pictures on the go.<br />
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I started with Lightroom Mobile on my phone. While it doesn't have all the features of the desktop version, it is capable of producing perfectly serviceable pictures for sharing on social media. I'll typically use this for updating friends and family from the road and then do more comprehensive development after I get home. It even syncs the adjustments between the two - mobile and destkop!<br />
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I use the Samsung Galaxy S8 with a 64GB internal microSD card and a USB-C SD card reader. At first, I simply plugged in the camera's SD card and imported the whole lot into Lightroom. It worked for the first trip but it's not quite the solution I wanted. So I bought a USB-C hub and portable external hard drive. Now I can connect the phone, camera card, and hard drive onto the same bus. I could even connect two hard drives to save duplicate backups of all my pictures. I took this kit on the road to try it out.<br />
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For a techie guy I can be surprisingly impatient sometimes. With everything connected, the phone simply wasn't recognizing the SD card and HD as external devices. I don't know why. After several attempts I gave up (for now) and connected the SD card directly to the phone and started a file copy. It was a slow copy, a lot slower than I expected, so I put it aside and came back after a nice brunch and walk around town. </div>
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Then it happend. Google photos decided it ought to upload these photos to my account. These are RAW files, most of them garbage. By the time I realized what was happening my battery was dead and AT&T was sending me annoyed alerts (yes we know you have an unlimited data plan, don't make us slow your upload speeds). My photos account now had a lot of RAW files I had no intention of keeping, when I got home I would have to go through and delete them all. This kept getting worse and worse. </div>
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