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During a photo walk yesterday, we spotted two hawks going after each other. Unfortunately, one cannot capture images like these with an iPhone. Fortunately, I had my DSLR with a telephoto with me.
Two hawks in an altercation
Canon EOS 5D, 70-200mm, 1.4x teleconverter. Processing note: Lightroom: Exposure boosted slightly, clarity boosted. Photoshop: Hawks masked and sharpened, grass blurred and de-saturated, image downsized and sharpened.
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I had to drop my wife off for an appointment in Greenbrae, CA, on Friday. While waiting for her, I took a walk along the nearby river, when I spotted this rower. So I whipped out my iPhone and snapped a few pictures…
Yellow rowing boat
Processing note: Photoshop: Cropped, some curve adjustments, slight saturation boost of the yellows in the boat, desaturated everything else, downsized and sharpened.
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Last weekend marked the start of Click-Off, our town’s annual photo competition where they randomly assign you a subject and within 2 days you have to produce one photograph. After finally allowing digital cameras in the competition, I entered with the intent to shoot the entire event with my iPhone. At the last minute the jury made a rule change requiring an 11×14 print to be produced, so there went my iPhone capture plan. Instead, I spent two afternoons around town shooting with my Canon 5D.
Of course, my randomly assigned subject was the only one that I dreaded: “Unusual Beauty”. Frankly, to this date I have no clue what that means. Thus, I simply decided to drop the “Beauty” and shoot from unusual angles.
At the end, I narrowed my “production” down to 3 images. The following 2 are the ones I did not submit. My actual submission will be posted here once I know how it performed in the competition. Stay tuned!
Richardson Bay Bridge
Power Lines
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I really love to watch the elaborate choreography of an NFL pre-game show. In this case, it was amazing to see how quickly they could switch from a Bucs banner spanning one half of the field to this huge American flag which covered two thirds of the field. Amazing job by all involved and an amazing sight to us spectators…
Pre-game ceremonies at the Bucs-Panthers game in Tampa. Click on the image to see a larger version of the panorama
Processing note: 5 images taken with an iPhone 3G. Photoshop: Panorama stitched, cropped, some minor warping, curve adjustments, contrast boosted, downsized and sharpened.
You can download the full-size panorama.
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