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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish 360° viewBack to Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish in Montecito. This was actually the first image I took with my new panoramic tripod head. But as I mentioned in an earlier post it took me a bit of time to finish all of the shots and in the time it took the light had changed quite a bit. I did not think I was going to be able to stitch it together right. But now that I have had a little practice I was able to get it to work.Of course that brought up some new problems. The image is so large I kept getting "Hard drive full" errors. Strange seeing as how there was 500 gig of space. In the end I realized that the format of the hard drive only allows a maximum of four gigabyte files. Yeah, it's a big picture... ten feet wide actually. |
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Moonlit TreeThis evening I went out to take some test shots for my current project. The moon was doing some beautiful things with the clouds so it got me a little sidetracked. But that is always lots of fun too.architecture 48 | California 108 | cloud 46 | evening 34 | light 48 | long exposure 9 | moonlight 1 | night 27 | Santa Barbara 119 | sky 47 | streetlight 6 | tree 46 |
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Our Lady of Mount CarmelMy intent was to get some nice sunset shots of this beautiful church in Montecito. I was a little late, but it was still a nice night.If you tilt your head to the left and use your imagination a little you can make out half of the constellation Orion rising from behind the church. |
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Mission StormClick on the main image for a bigger versionAnother attempt to get to the Nativity Scene at the mission a couple of weeks ago, and still no animals. Probably a good thing for them, it was raining like crazy. But I do so hate to come home empty handed! And, I still have not had a chance to develop the film from this evening. This was from my digital camera, but four feet wide just might not be big enough. :-D architecture 48 | California 108 | California Mission 26 | creative lighting 18 | evening 34 | fountain 27 | glow 9 | light 48 | long exposure 9 | Mediterranean architecture 21 | mission 32 | Mission Santa Barbara 21 | panorama 14 | panoramic 14 | Queen of the Missions 21 | rain 13 | Santa Barbara 119 | sunset 75 | tree 46 | wet 3 |
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
CCSB in the Setting SunAs I mentioned yesterday I was out taking some test shots for a new project. The intention was to check the lighting and get an idea what equipment I would need. But as the sky got prettier I decided to take a shot at getting some images to combine into a high dynamic range image. Normally, not a difficult task. But in this case I only had a monopod so that made keeping the camera perfectly still between shots a bit of a challenge. I might not use it for a poster size image but I'm pretty happy with the results. |
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Sunset at 1525 StateWhen the evening sun does beautiful things like this I find myself wishing I could drop everything and take pictures. Today I had a busy afternoon of meetings and appointments, fortunately one of them was with a new client so I just happened to have my camera handy. I think the wispy pink clouds really add a lot! Not to mention the cool bus tail lights that came through at just the right time.This is a combination of five images in what is called a High Dynamic Range Image, mostly used in this case to pick out the details in the bright spots. One of the interesting things about one of those bright spots is the color of the sign. That lovely green is the way film (or in this case a digital sensor) sees fluorescent lights. As they ummm... "encourage" us in California to use the CFLs my evening shots are going to get a lot greener, supposedly in more ways than one. |
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Tuesday Night Farmers' MarketIt's been a busy couple of months but last night the fog was so beautiful I thought I would try to get some sunset fog shots at the Farmers' Market. (Then I could get a little Thanksgiving shopping done too! :) Unfortunately, the fog was much lighter tonight and I was a little late for the sunset (still have not adjusted to that time change!) but it was still a fun night with my camera.crowd 2 | evening 34 | fair 2 | farmers' market 11 | light 48 | long exposure 9 | market 2 | motion 2 | night 27 | palm tree 32 | person 2 | Santa Barbara 119 | shopping 1 | street 5 | street fair 2 | tent 2 |
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Courthouse GlowSometimes its nice to take a closer look at something beautiful. This is a gateway into the Santa Barbara Courthouse. The building as a whole is amazing, but as I am so fond of pointing out I really like the details. There is some incredible craftsmanship there that I don't think you would find very easily today. Perhaps the only thing that will make me stop sounding like my grandfather now (WHYYYY, IN MY DAY... !) is to point out that it was probably pretty rare to EVER find this kind of creativity!(Unless of course, it was actually one of my perfectionist German grandfathers doing it! :-D At least I come by it honestly!) California 108 | courthouse 18 | door 5 | entrance 2 | entry 1 | evening 34 | gate 4 | gateway 1 | glow 9 | High Dynamic Range Image 15 | lamp 10 | lantern 7 | leaf 40 | light 48 | long exposure 9 | masonry 1 | Mediterranean architecture 21 | Santa Barbara 119 | Spanish-Mediterranean architecture 17 | stone 4 | stonecutting 1 | tree 46 | wall 3 |
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Saturday, May 14, 2005
Church LightsIt's the little things I like about this photo. The church bell and the palm tree in silhouette and the green glow of the reader board all make the photo much more interesting. |
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