This week’s travel theme is height. Fortunately, Kongo was atop New York’s Top of the Rock yesterday evening and he took this three-frame panorama of Manhattan looking south shortly before sunset. The Empire State Building is left-center with Freedom Plaza and downtown in the background. The Hudson River is on the right. See more height images at Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack. Travel safe. Have fun. Continue reading Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Height
Kongo took this image yesterday under the Scripps Pier in La Jolla, California about 10 minutes past sunset. He mounted his Canon 7D on a tripod, used a EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens set at f22 for five seconds. Scripps Pier is a private research pier located between La Jolla Shores and Black’s Beach. It is owned by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Travel safe. Have fun Related articles Ocean Beach Sunset (travel-monkey.me) Continue reading Under the Pier
This image combines three frames taken at roughly the same time as the previous post but give a much broader perspective of the San Diego skyline from Coronado Island. The images were stitched together with Photoshop Elements. Travel safe. Have fun. Continue reading Panoramic Postcard
It was a great evening for sunset photography at the Ocean Beach pier in San Diego tonight. The first picture is shot with two layers of neutral gray filters which added about 2.5 stops for 3.2 seconds, f32, ISO 100. I used a Tamron wide angle 10-24 mm SP lens at 24mm. I could see the sun sinking fast so for the second shot I quickly changed to a Canon 70-200mm EF “L” Series lens and took the image at 144mm. I didn’t have time to do a complete filter swap so I just held a single square of gray neutral density glass over the lens, which added about one stop, set the aperture to f32 and the shutter at 0.4 seconds for the correct exposure. When shooting from a tripod I always use either a 2 second timer or an auto shutter release (as in this case) to reduce camera shake. Both images were taken with a Canon 7D. Continue reading “Ocean Beach Sunset”
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is Carefree. These lucky souls aboard this sailboat moving slowly off the coast of La Jolla last evening certainly fit somewhere into the carefree category. See more carefree images at the Weekly Photo Challenge. Shot with a neutral density gray filter. 135mm | f32 | ISO 100 | 0.4 Seconds | Canon 7D | Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree
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