Laguna Beach Winter Sunset

Went down to Moss St. in Laguna Beach to capture the sunset. This image was captured using 3 exposures (one properly exposed, one +2 stops, and one -2 stops). I then used all three exposures to create an HDR image using Photomatix. Just a bit more post processing via Photoshop.

Two more from this shoot on my Flickr Photostream. http://www.flickr.com/photos/36092537@N04/

Happy Holidays!

Old Town Orange

Old Town Orange is one of those areas that is perfect for photo opp's. Today a friend and I went down to the circle at sundown and took some long exposure shots. I wasn't overly excited with any of mine, but it was a great evening and another chance to get to know my camera and equipment a bit better.

Rainy Day Subjects... Cats?

Most of the time it's pretty sunny in beautiful Orange County, California. However, we do get the occasional rainy day, and unless you're into getting wet with your camera equipment it's time for some indoor subjects. Here are a couple of my cats staying warm together. In this shot our oldest cat yawns, but it looks like there's a chance she may eat the new kitty.

Shot with Canon 50D and 24m-105m Canon L series lens. Processed in Lightroom, with a few Photoshop touch-ups to blur the background.

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Ah, San Diego

There are a lot of places in San Diego to take great photograph. I was on vacation with the family, but managed to take a couple of decent early evening shots overlooking Seaport Village, as well as the classic Sea World stuff.

The Shamu shot:

- Canon 50D

- EF 100-400mm f4.0/5.6 L, @ 200mm and f/5.0

- ISO 100

- 1/1000 sec.

- Limited post processing in Lightroom

The Seaport Village shot:

- Canon 50D

- EF 24mm-105mm f/4.0 L, @ 24mm and f/4.0

- ISO 200

- 3 exposures, using "Auto Exposure Bracketing" @ 2 step increments

- Post processingin Photomatix