Photo A Day-2011
The Aspens are almost gone for this season...
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Off to Disneyland for a few days! Brought my Canon along and never took it out of the bag. Just used my iPhone 4s to see what I could come up with! Even had fun with a few HDR apps... this image is not an HDR image btw. It was about noon when I took it. I must say that Photo Stream may be the coolest thing Apple has ever created! Shoot photos all day, come home hook up to wifi and a few minutes later all the photos are on your computer and or iPad or other phone, I have it set up so that my wife and I share a photo stream, So her photos show up on my phone and vice versa. Pretty cool!
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After Disneyland we cruised down the coast to visit my sister in Carlsbad and spent the afternoon at the beach and left just before sunset... but was able to capture my nephew with his surf board in hand! It looks like he's headed out, but in fact he had just come in and was checking out these rocks... I liked the light at this hour.... This was actually the first day of good surf the whole week!
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Finally got around to carving a pumpkin this year... He's got a bit of a crooked smile, let's call it a "wry" smile! :) and of course I had to whittle on the teeth a bit, trying to make them look like teeth.. He'll do!
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J got a Princess snow globe at the drug store today... So I had to try and shoot it! :)
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Look who has rosy red cheeks... These are her real rosy cheeks they were not added in post. :) I did lighten up her face a bit as she was just in front of the main light source which was behind her... I she had stepped back an inch her face would have been lit better... some minor dodge on her face brought it out reasonably well and a high key filter and noise reduction utilizing Nik Software amazing plug ins completed the PP.
11-13-2011These are liquid amber trees in my parents from yard... they are just starting to show their fall colors. This was taken with a iPhone 4s and edited with Aperture.
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These look small in this photo, but these are rather large Holiday Globe grapes.. decided to try at 1.4 to see just how shallow the dof would be...
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Caught J looking out the window today! Had fun trying to capture her blur of activity while shooting into the glare of the glass!
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the light is bad, the image is a quick snap, but the pie is delicious!
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Ok who's having sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving?
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I consider myself a complete HDR newbie.... but this image needed something, it was mid morning and the overcast was lifting, but the skies were still quite dull. This is at the top of Lombard street in San Francisco. i'm quite pleased how this turned out. Hope all had a fantastic Thanksgiving here in the USA.
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Spent the day on Alcatraz and around the San Francisco Wharf... This was taken on the municipal pier...
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It's still November right? This is one of Reece's school projects for their November bulletin board. The project was write 3 things your thankful for and then turn over the page and color the leaf. So this is what Reece is thankful for and his painting and his teachers penmanship on the front. I think it's pretty cool!
It's beginning to look like Christmas around our house... I thought these pear ornaments hanging from the chandelier looked...
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Fun with textures of a palm tree!... and November has come to an end...
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Back to the Pears hanging from our chandelier for the start of December... I did some minor edits in Aperture and then used a really cool filter in Perfect Photo Studio to bring out the glittery surface...
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Took a drive up the local mountains today... This was the scene as the clouds were lifting after about 12 inches over night.... I liked the way this came out!
I wrote up my PP for this image here: http://www.douglassandquist.com/tech/dougs-post-processing.-this-might-be-a-new-series
12-02-2011