This is my sister’s dog, Bailey. Taken in doors and a tough shot, he just will not keep still and everytime I tried to lower the camera down to his level he would run away, so a little stealth was required. Only editing was to crop the image, this is straight out of the camera, ISO6400, 1/60 at f2, taken with the X-Pro 1 and the 35mm f1.4 lens.
Some cypress leaves at the Fullerton Arboretum. Taken with a Fuji X-Pro 1, 60mm macro lens, f2.4 and 1/280, ISO 200. Took me awhile to get a decent shot of the hanging leaves there was light breeze so they kept swinging around. Enjoy.
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.
Roaming around the garden I found these and the light was nice in the late afternoon. Taken with the Fuji X-Pro 1, 60mm lens at f5.4 and 1/4000 exposure. Sometimes it is fun just to walk around the garden and see what you can find, you never now what you may find. Enjoy.
While at the Getty we took a look at the Herb Ritts exhibit, really worth going to see. Amazing images, really creative and great lighting. I was quite impressed with the images and highly recommend anyone interested in photography to go to the Getty and see the exhibit. I am going to go back and take another look, really very creative uses of lines, shapes and light. This shot is taken at the entrance to the gallery, no photography is allowed in the exhibit. Taken with a the Fuji X-Pro 1 18mm f2 lens, 1/80 at f2 and ISO 400, converted to black and white using Lightroom.
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.
Here are some images from the Venus transit, which occurred on June 5, 2012. These were taken from Santa Ana, CA on the top level of a parking structure. I used my Canon 1D M4 with a 100-400mm at 400mm and a 1.4x which gave me a focal length of 560mm, these are crops of the image, taken using a solar filter. You can see several sunspots in addition to Venus as it moved across the face of the sun. These were taken over a period of about 3 hours. Hope you enjoy them, click on the images to see larger versions.
I am really liking my Fuji X-Pro 1, wonderful small camera with really great image quality. I pretty much carry it with me every day. Here is a shot from the Griffith Park Observatory looking towards downtown Los Angeles. This was shot with the Fuji X-Pro 1 and the 18mm f2.0 lens at ISO 200 and 1/350 at f11.
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.
This weeks images are of the partial annular solar eclipse. Taken with a Canon 1Dm4 and 100-400mm lens at 400mm and a 1.4x extender. These shots will be part of a timelapse movie of the sequence. Also included is shot of the camera setup that was used to take the solar images. This setup will track the motion of the earth so that the sun always stayed in the frame as it was going down towards the horizon. The marks on the surface of the sun are sun spots. From the location, east of Temecula, the sun went down below the horizon as it was coming out of being eclipsed, the last shot is more red because the sun was right on the horizon and I should have increased the exposure and you can also see some of the brush on the horizon as the sun was setting. The eclipse occurred on May 20, 2012.
