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Boston from Piers Park

March 12, 2010 in Landscape, Photography | No comments

‘Twas a cold and windy night. No really, it was. I didn’t think it was that cold or that windy when I was home in little Rhody, there were light clouds and the sky was clear so I decided that I’d drive to Boston and go to a place called Piers Park in East Boston and see what there was to see. I’d been in the mood to do some city shots for a while but as luck had it every day I had off the weather did not cooperate until this past Monday, or so I thought. I’d heard of Piers Park from some flickr friends most especially I’d been inspired by Briburt’s work. I was a bit surprised 40 minutes later when I got there to find it was 10 degrees cooler (50F) and the wind was coming out of the west at 20 knots. Not ideal for photography but I stuck it out taking a few images before retreating to my car to wait for sunset. This is an HDR of the last 3 shots of the night, 45 minutes after the sun went down and I stopped being able to feel my nose. I had been packing things up when I noticed that the clock was lit up on the face of the Custom House Tower so I had to take a few more, since what is a night shot of Boston without it!

Canon 5DMII, Canon 24-105L f/28, HDR Processed and Tonemapped in Photomatix, Finished with Nik Plugins and Tony Kuyper’s actions in Photoshop

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Twilight, Boston financial district style

December 13, 2009 in Image Processing, Landscape, Photography | No comments

Another shot I took whilst out with Terry on our long hike through the streets of Boston. You can see that “party yacht” better in this shot, it’s a bit of an eyesore against the brick and glass buildings, I wish I got lower to hide it better. I like the way the light illuminates the redish gold leaf on the cobblestones and the seagull waiting for a handout. Another HDR processed in Photomatix then finished with Nik Plugins and Tony Kuypers web sharpening actionTwilight from Moakley Courthouse

Canon 5DMII, Canon 16-35mm F/2.8

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Boston Financial District

December 12, 2009 in Landscape, Photography | No comments

I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from all aspects of photography, the number of unread blogs I subscribe to is well over 1000 and I haven’t even picked up my camera since going down to watch Mike and Jas surf at the begining of November. We even went hiking up falling waters trail in NH and I only brought my little point and shoot and took 3 pictures that I haven’t looked at yet. Part of it is ennui, part of it is Dragon Age, part of it is that I’ve been reading vociferously but I seem to be reviving. I took another look the images I took with Terry when he was up that first weekend of November and started working on a few of them. This is probably my favorite of the series. The wrought iron sculptures of the sailing ships worked nicely to camouflage the yacht that was moored in front of the Boston Harbor Hotel which stood out like a sore thumb. I don’t like the slight haloing around the buildings but it’s there in each of the raw images to some extent, it’s where the light was the strongest I guess. I didn’t feel like spending hours in photoshop to make it go away so I didn’t.

Boston from the Moakley Courthouse

Taken with a Canon 5DMII, 24-105L f/4.5 lens. Merged to HDR with Photomatix and finished in Photoshop with Nik plug-ins and Tony Kuyper luminosity and sharpening actions

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The Elph strikes again!

January 30, 2009 in Avian, Camera, General, Landscape, Photography | 1 comment

Okay, I’ll admit it, I was slightly bored today in class.  So I got to thinking about the different modes on the elph and wondered if they had a portrait mode, a beach mode, a stiching mode and a sunset mode why didn’t they have a nighttime mode.  So I pull it out of my bag at lunch and lo-there it was Nighttime mode (no MypoicJoe, not Nightmare mode!)  So after a bite to eat with some old friends I had to walk off the Filet and so I wandered around the city along Atlantic Ave which allowed me to shoot my favorite Boston Landmark-the Boston Custom House.  I shot it from many sides, even getting the moon as it peaked out from the clouds in a few but none struck my fancy as much as this one:

The Boston Custom House

As I wandered further I came across one of my other favorite winter landmarks-the walkway behind the Marriott Long Wharf that leads to the North End (must go to Mike’s and get rainbow cake with marzipan before I head home, if you’ve never been to Mike’s Pastry the next time you go to Boston it is a must-it’s always packed and for good reason, it is some of the best Italian cookies, canoli, pastry and marzipan to be found.  Anywhere)  As I was saying, the walkway is almost always lit up, but I guess this year it’s been so cold they haven’t wanted to take down the wreath:

Behind the Marriott Long Wharf

Both of these were taken on Nighttime mode and I think it is a big improvement over the one of the Park Street Church from last night there is still appreciable noise but it was much more easily handled in photoshop.  The only processing I did other than using Noise Ninja was some exposure control to bump up the black and a bit of clarity increase (both done in LR2)

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The little Elph that could

January 29, 2009 in Camera, General, Image Processing, Landscape, Photography | 3 comments

Mike bought me an awesome gift for Christmas, a little Elph880, or as I like to call it the little Elph that could.  The reason is that it is the Elph that could is because it is there to do it.  The idea is that I keep it with me at all times so when I don’t have a “real” camera and something strikes my fancy I can still try and get the image.  It takes a bit getting used to, no viewfinder being the worst part, I’m still getting nose prints all over it, and it doesn’t play well with winter gloves.  All that aside it’s fun!  I took a few pictures with it tonight walking back from the BCEC (the Boston Convention and Expo Center) to my hotel. The first was taken from the bridge over I93 just before the sun was beginning to set:2009_01_29_boston-8sm

This next was taken walking down Tremont street towards Park Street Station, I liked the way the Moon and Mars were juxtaposed near the Park Street Church:

2009_01_29_boston-12-editThere is a lot of noise but that’s because I needed to use the flash since there was no way I could hand hold this without it.

This last one surprised me with the lack of noise, again I needed to use the flash but it’s much less noisy:2009_01_29_boston-20sm

All and all a fun camera and great to have it with me at all times.  Thanks to my wonderful husband.

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