I love watching sunsets and ones that get all kinds of nice colors and clouds can be especially nice, I never get tired of watching sunsets. Here is a sunset from Wed. evening that was pretty cool, some nice colors and then a few minutes later it all changes. Taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1, the first was taken with the 35mm f1.4 and the second was with the 18mm f2.0. Both are very minimal processing, pretty much just straight out of the camera. Enjoy.
The last beacon of light for the day as the sun slowly sinks in the west. Taken in Laguna Beach, Fuji X-Pro 1, 60mm f2.4 macro at f2.4 and 1/3300 at ISO 400.
This is a re-edit of an image from the Huntington, actually 3 images, done as an HDR, I wanted to try out some new techniques. Taken at the Huntington Library gardens, using the Fuji X-Pro 1, 35mm f1.4 lens at f8.
Hard to believe half the year has gone by, I guess that is the sign of getting older, time flies! Here is this week’s image, it was more an experiment but I like how it came out. I got an adapter for my Fuji X-Pro 1 to use my Canon lenses, so this is taken near Temecula with the X-Pro 1 and a Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens, taken at f2.8 and a 30 second exposure at ISO1600. I thought it turned out pretty well, the yellowish glow in the bottom right is the light pollution dome from San Diego. The summer Milky Way always a neat thing to see. Enjoy.
This week’s image comes from the Getty Center. Taken with a Fuji X-Pro 1 and 18mm f2 lens, setting were ISO 800, 1/25 at f8. I love black and white and not all images work well in black and white, but I felt that this one did, hope you did too.
On the boardwalk at Main Beach, Laguna Beach, CA, little bit of sand, a little bit of fog and mist and just another beach morning. Taken with a Fuji X-Pro 1 with a Canon 50mm f1.4 FD lens using a Kipon adapter.
Long exposure photography can yield some interesting images even during the day, this image used a Lee Big Stopper, 10 stop ND filter in front of the Fuji 18mm lens at f16 and ISO 200 with the wonderful Fuji X-Pro 1 camera. This yielded a 15 second exposure of the incoming surf at Treasure Island in Laguna Beach, CA. There are some nice tidepools but you have to watch the incoming waves as the tide comes in, they can catch you by surprise. I did not get wet on this trip, but there were a few people there that did not watch the wave patterns! Several large waves arrived during this exposure and that leads to the misty water look during this exposure and overcast skies made for a nice even light. Hope you enjoy it.
Spring is a fun time of year, here in L.A. it can mean anything from hot spells, to rain, to grey overcast skies, and this year it was a little strange. First we got hardly any rain during our normal rainy season and had heat instead, the lack of rain and heat really messed up the normal wildflower prospects. So you have to wonder to other places to find some flowers. This weeks image is from the Huntington Library gardens. They have a very nice cactus section and a lot of them were in the processing of blooming. This weeks image was also taken with my new camera, the Fuji X-Pro 1. I really like this new camera, a very nice and compact, well at least more compact than the dslr I normally use. Great optics, great image quality and all packaged in an interesting retro kind of case. A nostalgic trip back to rangefinder type cameras, although not a rangefinder per se, the handling is very similar. Great camera. Since Adobe has not released the raw file processing ability I have been using the in camera jpgs and it is capable of generating great images. This weeks image was taken with the Fuji 35mm f1.4 lens and using the Velvia film simulation mode. I bracketed the exposure and blending the files using exposure fusion. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
I was watching this sunset and really liked the clouds and the layers so I grabbed the Fuji X-Pro1 and fired off a few shots. Originally I was hoping that the setting sun would illuminate the clouds and light up the sky, but it turned out it was a more subtle sunset. Even though my original thought was to get something more dramatic I am quite pleased with this sunset as the storm clouds were beginning to break up and the storm was clearing. Taken in Laguna Beach, CA. Lens was an 18mm. Enjoy.
Spring is here, flowers are out and the weather is definitely getting warmer, and warmer. Since we seem to go into extremes, cold then hot, it can make it rough on finding spring flowers. So when the wildflowers are not producing, the gardens get worked. This is from Descanso Gardens, they always have a nice display of tulips. The was taken in a patch that was partially shaded and what I did was accentuate the shadows and the highlighted areas. The translucent appearance of the tulips when backlit caught my eye. Taken with a Canon 5DmarkII and 70-200mm f4 at f4 and 163mm. Enjoy.
