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Jeremy > May 7, 2009; Day 5. Art House. This is my next-door neighbor’s house, which has never called out to me as a photo subject until today. I’m in my car, still in my driveway, in a steady rain. Too bad I had already used the wipers before noticing this. When I got to work I had thought of some more items to shoot like this, but unfortunately, the rain was nothing more than a mist by then. Tonight was the 4th photography class at the Concord High School. We covered aperture. Not much new information for me, but I did enjoy the time we spent critiquing the photos of the other students. Peter produced one of his shots from Sunday, which was great. Raw: Crop: 9.6MP Raw: Color Temperature: 6350K; Tint: +30 Raw: Saturation: +8 PS: Curves: Medium Contrast preset PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Lab b channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > February 23, 2009; Day 297. Charming, Cozy New Englander. If I needed to list my house with a realtor, I’d definitely be in charge of photographing it. Most listings that are posted in the winter look dreadful. Those homeowners don’t know that at brief but predictable times during the day, natural and artificial lighting can coexist equally. At these times the sky is very cool (blue), and correcting for this makes most artificial light warm. Since it is winter I want some blue to remain in this shot. I use the ladder to cope with ice dams that form each winter. The remedy? Old socks filled with rock salt. It works! I probably wouldn’t use the words “charming” and “cozy” to list my house, though. Charming is a nice way of saying that the paint is peeling in the bathroom. Cozy is a nice way of saying that you’ll be bumping into each other when both of you are in the kitchen. Be careful out there! Raw: Color Temperature: 5500K; Tint: -15 Raw: Recovery: +100 Raw: Fill Light: +35 Raw: Saturation: +8 PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Curves adjustment for Velvia effect PS: Curves adjustment for additional contrast PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > September 7, 2008; Day 128. Today Peter and I biked around Concord to enjoy the post-Hanna weather, which included deep blue skies and clean green flora. I decided to carry only my widest lens, which kept me from shooting the ducks at White Park but was perfect for some low-sun house shots. Really sharp viewers will recognize the lower archway. A closeup of that was a prior daily. The best lesson I learned in my composition class was Overwork Your Subject. I’m not sure why I’m drawn to this house but I love how it looks in good light. Perhaps I am daydreaming that one of the local realtors will hire me as an overpaid photographer to spice up their listings. I can dream, can’t I? No training ride today. The remnants of Hurricane Hanna produced some nice gusts, so I went with the mountain bike and downtown strolls. I should get 3 more training rides in this week. PS: Crop: ~20% PS: Saturation: +20 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > August 20, 2008; Day 110. I drive by this house once per week, lately during the golden hour of sunlight. I’m always rushing to my destination, so I can’t stop to shoot it. It’s just another stately New England house with a lot of nice architecture. As I could not do a training ride tonight, I took a moment and snuck over there with time to chase the light. The training ride was aborted today with 2 more flat tires this morning, each following inflation of the tire to 120 pounds. This time, the tire made an ear-splitting pop, so the bike will spend the night in the shop. Tomorrow I will train using the trusty mountain bike. It will be interesting to see what my time will be. PS: Saturation: +25 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > July 11, 2008; Day 70. Today I committed myself to the Harbor to the Bay AIDS Ride. This 125-mile bicycle ride will occur on September 20. Officially, I am Rider 186. Today I decided to relieve my old, inexpensive, and crash-battered mountain bike from the responsibility of delivering me safely to Provincetown. That job will go to this guy, brand new today. If I were a kid, I’d gleefully announce that this is my shiny new 30-speed bike. How great does that sound? I guess I’m still a kid at heart. I had never ridden a touring bike before today. Carbon sure is light. I had to buy new shoes, the kind that latch onto the pedals. I have to get in the habit of detaching from the pedals before dismounting. The brakes are familiar but the shifting mechanism, not so much. Tomorrow, training begins, with a 36-mile ride through six NH towns. I am somewhat fit, having stayed regular at the gym throughout the winter. So training is not so much about aerobic capacity and endurance…it’s about getting used to the saddle. The ride should take no less than 7 hours, so I’ll need to be, um, callused in certain places. Did I get lucky with a really low sun? OK, I’ll confess. I love that warming gel. (Thanks, everyone, for your enthusiastic response to yesterday’s pic. Harsh, I have added my e-mail address to my gallery description—good idea. Also, I have registered with Prix site and will submit the pic. Thanks for suggesting it!) PS: Crop: 10% PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > June 12, 2008; Day 41. I’m scouting for just the right place to put my camera when I start the “Four Holidays” project, which hopefully will be ready to go on July 4. I must think ahead for this, as each holiday will have separate lighting requirements as well as ideal placement of subjects that identify the holiday. In this spot, I have a lot of flexibility for a subject dancing around with a sparkler. But if I want to see kids in costumes standing at the door next to the Jack o’lantern at Halloween, I might need to get a little closer. This is an HDR image taken from 6 exposures and assembled with Photomatix. The aperture is a fixed f/8 throughout; the shutter speeds were 25s, 13s, 6s, 3s, 1.6s, and 1/1.3s. Within Photomatix, I increased the white point and saturation but decreased the smoothing (more “glow” near the top of the house) and luminosity (less noise). Bet you wonder how I got this shot with a 1000mm lens! (Actually, the EXIF is wrong, the Sigma was at the full 10mm for this.) PS: Used healing brush to remove power lines. PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
Jeremy > June 8, 2008; Day 37. Peter came over to push me into the gym so that I continue to burn away some of my winter fat. It was a brutally hot day in New Hampshire (96 degrees) so afterwards, we arranged the chairs so that my sole window A/C could wash over us. Peter thought he'd read the paper but decided to doze instead. It is a really comfy chair. Yeah, that's a hot window. The graduated ND filter would not have helped, and an HDR would have revealed a lot of diffused light coming through blinds. Sometimes you have to live with life's compositional hurdles. No post processing...JPEG from camera.
Jeremy > June 3, 2008; Day 32. Oliver alerted us to the Orton technique last week. I had never heard of it before but I was atwitter to try it. For this first attempt, I was blessed with overcast skies, a nearly dead calm atmosphere, and lots of rhododendrons in full bloom. This is a blend of two exposures. The first is at f/16 and focused on the front flower. The second is at f/5.6 and focused at infinity. Due to my proximity to the front flower, the first exposure was blurry at infinity. This seems to have made it possible to have a front-to-back Orton effect. This first attempt is a little hot in the front and there is some ghosting that may have been caused by my batting away the dive-bombing mosquitoes during the long exposures. Still, I see lots of potential with this technique and will add it to my list of things to try when I’m working a subject. If I hadn't known about Orton, I almost certainly would have posted this as my daily. PP after the blend: Color Balance: -40 Yellow to Blue.
Jeremy > May 14, 2008; Day 12. I’m hosting a small dinner party tomorrow, so tonight I clean. Oliver suggested that this might be a good time to re-attach the camera to the vacuum. I said I would only if my new 10.5mm Fisheye lens arrived. It did. I think I'm finally happy with my lens collection, which means I can finally put together a “my gear” shot when I have more time. This is my kitchen, my favorite room in the house. That’s a tin ceiling and see-through cabinets. My sister, her husband, and I installed the wallpaper. The camera is taped to a flat section above the main canister of the vacuum. The blur in the photo is due to my actually vacuuming the floor here. A sponge provides vibration dampening, needed since the vacuum is running. Luckily Nikon didn’t adopt the term “vibration dampening” for their lenses…
May 7, 2009; Day 5.

Art House.

This is my next-door neighbor’s house, which has never called out to me as a photo subject until today. I’m in my car, still in my driveway, in a steady rain. Too bad I had already used the wipers before noticing this. When I got to work I had thought of some more items to shoot like this, but unfortunately, the rain was nothing more than a mist by then.

Tonight was the 4th photography class at the Concord High School. We covered aperture. Not much new information for me, but I did enjoy the time we spent critiquing the photos of the other students. Peter produced one of his shots from Sunday, which was great.

Raw: Crop: 9.6MP
Raw: Color Temperature: 6350K; Tint: 30
Raw: Saturation: 8
PS: Curves: Medium Contrast preset
PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity
PS: Lab b channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > May 7, 2009; Day 5. Art House. This is my next-door neighbor’s house, which has never called out to me as a photo subject until today. I’m in my car, still in my driveway, in a steady rain. Too bad I had already used the wipers before noticing this. When I got to work I had thought of some more items to shoot like this, but unfortunately, the rain was nothing more than a mist by then. Tonight was the 4th photography class at the Concord High School. We covered aperture. Not much new information for me, but I did enjoy the time we spent critiquing the photos of the other students. Peter produced one of his shots from Sunday, which was great. Raw: Crop: 9.6MP Raw: Color Temperature: 6350K; Tint: +30 Raw: Saturation: +8 PS: Curves: Medium Contrast preset PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Lab b channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
May 7, 2009; Day 5.

Art House.

This is my next-door neighbor’s house, which has never called out to me as a photo subject until today. I’m in my car, still in my driveway, in a steady rain. Too bad I had already used the wipers before noticing this. When I got to work I had thought of some more items to shoot like this, but unfortunately, the rain was nothing more than a mist by then.

Tonight was the 4th photography class at the Concord High School. We covered aperture. Not much new information for me, but I did enjoy the time we spent critiquing the photos of the other students. Peter produced one of his shots from Sunday, which was great.

Raw: Crop: 9.6MP
Raw: Color Temperature: 6350K; Tint: 30
Raw: Saturation: 8
PS: Curves: Medium Contrast preset
PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity
PS: Lab b channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
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