This shot was taken in almost total darkness. The only light I could see was to the left coming from the street lamp and the soft orange lingering from the sunset. This is on a side road that parallels the 101 freeway about 2 miles from Calabasas Ca. See tha large one on Flickr http://goo.gl/7gcyb.
Got some great news. My photo is being painted. My Drum teacher (Steve Roth | www.drumset4u.com) has a daughter who is a painter. She saw my photo and is in process of creating a painting of it. I’ll post an image of the painting once she is done.
I went to a beer tasting event at the Stuffed Sandwich (link) in San Gabriel and snapped this on my way home. (more here). The tasting was an event put on by a home brewing club named The Maltese Falcons (link). The Falcons lay claim to being the oldest home brewing club in America. On a whim, weeks before the tasting, I attended one of their meetings. It was in the back of The Home Beer, Wine, Cheesemaking Shop. Just a bunch of guys and gals that are interested and very knowledgable in home brewing. I’d like to run a micro brew once I retire. I sampled some of the members home brews and was very impressed. They told me about the tasting event and said it was one of those “must do” events.
In a pinch, I used my sunglasses as a filter to get these golden tones. I really like taking shots along California’s Coastline. This particular day I was gifted with some spectacular clouds.
In photography, the golden hour (sometimes known as magic hour, especially in cinematography) is the first and last hour of sunlight during the day,[1] when a specific photographic effect is achieved due to the quality of the light.
I was standing on the bridge in Downtown Los Angeles at 5th and Figueroa just after sunrise. This is a composite of three bracketed images that I processed in Photomatics. Though not perfect (I’m still learning to learn photography), I thought it came out well.
Shot across the street of my neighbors house around sunset time. I didn’t do much with the colors, just cropped and darkened it a bit. It was too bad that the car was parked in front of the house else it would have been a much better photo.
While on vacation in Ventura Ca. in 09′ I wen’t on a bit of an excursion one night. About a mile or two from where we were staying was this power plant right next to the coast. I must have snapped 200 shots using different settings and whatnot. This was the result of 3 images merged and the colors tweaked a bit.