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‘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
Tags: Boston, Canon 24-105L f/4, Canon 5DMII, HDR, Images, MA, Night, Nik Plugins, Photography, Sunset, Tony Kuyper Actions
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 action
Canon 5DMII, Canon 16-35mm F/2.8
Tags: Boston, Canon 16-35L f/2.8, Canon 5DMII, Financial District, MA, Moakley Courthouse, Nik Plugins, TKRPhoto, Tony Kuyper Actions
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:
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:
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)
Tags: Boston, Canon, Custom House, Elph 880, MA, Marriott Long Wharf, Mike's Pastry