Life at 17mm

OK - I miss (I mean I MISS MISS MISS) having truly wide angle due to the digital 1.5x crop factor - so now I've taken to carrying a film camera (Nikon F5) with a wide zoom (Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8) and shooting some color neg that's developed at $3 a roll with no prints and scanning them.

Here are a couple shots from the weekend at 17mm...

Greenwood Ave. Car Show

I finally made it to the Greenwood Ave Show... every year I kept missing it for one reason or another. It's eclectic to say the least - good people watching, a wide variety of cars.

I only took the 70-200 f/2.8 on the digital camera - i'll be getting my film developed today from the F5 that had the 17-35 f/2.8 on it and I'll post those shots tomorrow if I get them scanned in.


Impala


58 Dodge


Flames


Blue Light


64 GTO


Cadillac


Bentley

Redmond, WA - packed and stacked

This is my neighborhood. Average lot size is likely <~3000 sq ft. Most houses are >$500k. It's interesting... but in Ohio I had 1/3 of an acre and a house that was much bigger and I actually like it better here in Redmond. We know more neighbors, we use the public park areas and meet up with other kids for Greg, etc. It's just that this view makes it look like "the burbs" in it's full effect. :-)

Car Show - Italian Style

Like Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Detomasso, Ferrari? There is an annual show at Lonsdale Quay in Vancouver, BC on Father's Day every year.

We went up with the Northwest Region of the Ferrari Club of America (NWRFCA) and hit dinner and the show with all the usual suspects. :-)

Lots more pictures here at:
http://www.pbase.com/threefourfive/200506vancouver


Since people have asked in private mails I'll also point out all images are available for purchase in print format with no watermark at:
http://printroom.com/pro/threefourfive


Flat Yellow and Pearl Yellow Lambos




The crew from the ride up...


The crew from dinner...


Challenge Stradale


Good Stories, Good Times

Experiment in High Dynamic Range (HDR)

flagday2: this is composite of 9 images merged to create a single 32 bit HDR. Then converted back to jpg (8bit) with a custom curve applied to allow a capture of the full dynamic range of the scene. This process lets you gather both Highlights and shadows of a scene by combining 2 or more pictures that were exposed at different shutter speeds to produce a single image with both highlights and shadows that normally would have been lost.

The House

The House: The sky was 4+ stops out of range and I didn't go back to the garage for my tripod... I will next time because I'd like to try out the high dynamic range capabilities of photoshop. This was me messing with doing a HDR type image but just from a raw file. I opened one layer as the properly exposed image and one as the raw -3 stops in CS2.... then manually merged with a mask of my own to get the result here. I ended up liking it a lot and didn't feel too bad about not going back for the tripod. ;-)

Flowers up close

Couple flowers from next to our garage. In the orange one I was just fascinated by all the pollen... no wonder I've been sneezing. :-)

This is a 60mm Macro shot...



This is the same 60mm lens but with three extension tubes (pk11, pk12, pk13) stacked to increase magnification of the lens.

Friday night playtime...

Greg and trevor playing in a park over by the Munk's house...

Batch 1: Scanned from negative and slide film

I am finally (!!) almost complete with the effort I started last October - revisiting some 15,000 rolls of negatives and slides to scan in some favorites. It takes a LONG time to get through that much film!

I used a Nikon Coolscan V ED scanner to scan them. My biggest complaint is that black and white negatives can not take advantage of the Digital Ice features of the scanner so dust touch up is a PAIN.

These are all for sale for personal use if you're interested. If you're interested in using any of them for editorial or any other printed use, please contact me.

By the way - I think I'll be shifting to flickr.com for backend image storage. This is the first set onthis blog serving from there.

Dinner at Pacific Place in Seattle

Electic bus lines


Chair at "Gap" downtown store

Apple Juice



Tall


Happy Sam.


Sprite with Ice