It's been awhile

It's been awhile since I posted anything. My computer gave me some trouble a little under a year ago, and I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall my OS. Thankfully, I had just backed up my photos before everything went down. That being said, I lost a lot of my edits so it has taken me a bit of time to work through them again. The positive thing in all of this is that I got to reacquaint myself with all my pictures.

Seward Alaska

This is a panorama that I got while on my honeymoon.

Sunset at Salt River Canyon

The end of a day trip to the white mountains in Arizona. I've driven this road nearly a dozen times now, and I was headed through there just at the right time for a sunset shot.

Week of 2-19-17

Some photos from this week:

Sunrise in a Park

Had some time early one morning this week (power was out), so I headed out before sunrise to see what I could find. Stopping by a local park, the sunrise was gorgeous. Below is what I found:

Sony A6000, 16-70 f4 @16mm, iso 100, 1/100s

Sony A6000, 16-70 f4 @16mm, iso 100, 1/100s

Sony A6000, 16-70 f4 @17mm, iso 640, 1/200s

Constellation Orion

Taken during vacation this past Christmas. The constellation Orion is above the truck (the three stars that look something like a belt). You can see the Milky Way to the left of Orion very faintly. This was a stack of 5 photos taken with a 12mm F2.0 lens on a Canon EOS M system and then stacked in Affinity Photo.

Adjusted to taste in Affinity Photo. 

Advent Scenery

Saw this scene this afternoon and had to get a photo of it.

Canon Digital Rebel XT, 50mm f1.8, ISO 100

While I have newer equipment, sometimes my older Rebel XT with a fast prime lens does just fine. The room where this was photographed had windows open in available light (though not full daylight, what with clouds and a winter sun and windows facing away from the direction of afternoon light). The shutter speed was set high enough to only show the light the candle was casting (you'll notice some highlights in the upper portions of the cross from the natural light which the open windows in the room provided). 

Panorama Downtown Scene

Living on the coast, my wife and I decided we needed to take the time to shoot some photos at the docks near our downtown. Parking is free, and the weather happened to be good one Friday morning. Below is one of the scenes we spent some time around. 

5 Panel Panorama. Canon Eos-M 18-55 @ 18mm. Auto ISO and Exposure. Circular Polarizing Filter.

The five panels were shot in JPEG, processed in a photo editor [Affinity Photo, to taste], stitched together, and this was the result. Two other panoramas were shot as well, but water photos and horizons make for some challenging panorama conditions, especially handheld. The above was the best of the day. 

Panorama extravaganza

Panorama's are fun. Ever since I got an iPhone 5, I started playing around with the panorama feature build into the software. I remember thinking I would love to be able to do that with my camera, and I went digging around the internet to try to figure out how to make a panorama work. I discovered that programs such as Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop have features built into it that would merge photos together and create a panorama.

Above is a panorama of Yosemite National Park in which I merged a series of six separate photos into one large panorama.



This panorama is a series of photos I took overlooking La Jolla California. What I discovered when I did this one, is that the program sometimes has a hard time merging together photos of water. I originally intended to have the water extend father out in the photo but this was all it could handle.