September 2009

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Mike and I went down to Newport last weekend for a “quick” sunset shoot of the Newport Bridge and harbor. We had been there earlier in the year but the sunset was only fair and we stayed pretty close to the car and the bridge. I had a friends daughter get married in the park just down the street a few years ago and decided to walk there to shoot. There’s a house just before the park 108 Washington Street, and it’s for sale.

3 Bed, 5 Bath Harbor View

So yes for a cool 2.9 million this little Newport Cottage could be yours and you’ll never have to wait for a bathroom! It has one of the most beautiful views of Newport Harbor that there is although the traffic can get a bit crazy during the summer.

Zillow estimates the house is worth $2, 686,500.00 which would mean your monthly payment is $12,201.00 Don’t forget the taxes though when you’re writing out your budget. A mere $22,887.00.

The day after Hurricaine Danny blew through we went down to Matunuck Beach, me to shoot, Mike to surf. It was too misty to do much shooting of him and Jas (and the 200 or so other surfers out there) so I squeezed myself up against a wall and shot the waves as they washed in and out. A quite hazardous job since the current was fierce and I was wearing jeans, boots and was carrying the 5DMII with the 16-35 and had a pack on with the other camera and my 100-400 and various sundries. It would have been sink long before swim. The cameras got a little spray on them and I got soaked up to my waist but was rewarded with some interesting images.

Mike having some fun
Mike and Danny

Storm Surge:
Storm Surge

Storm Surge2 B&W:
Rushing Water2, B&W

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It’s unusual for it to be still the day after a hurricane comes through, but then again it’s unusual for it to be sunny with awesome clouds the day it does like it was last Saturday and Sunday when Hurricane Bill so why should I have been surprised when it was nearly dead calm after Hurricane Danny passed?  But still it was after we got back from the beach and it gave me a chance to play a bit with some later season flowers.

This is a 13 image composite taken at tiny little increments of focus point on the pink flower.  There are a few ways to process this but I chose to do it all in CS4.  I imported them all from LR2 as layers in one document then used auto-align.  After about 5 minutes it finished and I did a rough crop and went for auto-blend using the stack images command.  10 hours later (it felt like) I got pretty much this result.  The only other tweaks were further croping and a pro-contrast layer from Nik Software’s Color efex pro and then a run of the “make it glow” action by Tony Kuyper and an adjustment of the opacity of the two layers.

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