Mount Sawtelle at Night

Mount Sawtelle is visible out the window of the kitchen at the cabin, maybe that's why I'm fascinated with it.  I wanted to try a couple of dusky shots - here they are:

This one is six seconds at f38 ISO 400 55mm with my 18-55mm lens.

 This one you can begin to see the big dipper in the upper right corner of the frame, it is ten seconds f8 2EV (two stops over exposed) ISO 800 18mm with my 18-55mm lens.

Washington DC

Well I've spent all kinds of time processing photos I took in DC last week.  If you would like, check out what I've posted on Google+ or Flickr.  I'll post a few here also.  No collection of DC photos would be complete with out a shot of the obelisk called the Washington Monument.  This is a five shot HDR taken mounted on a tripod with lots of traffic moving across the street in the foreground.

Evanston Train Station

You may recall that we went searching for fall color last week and found some.  We ended up in Evanston and had a nice dinner.  Then, when it was completely dark, very windy and beginning to rain I found the Evanston train station.  Well, I'm required by some kind of weird self imposed rule to take a picture regardless of conditions.  I was freezing to death and most of the shots didn't turn out because the wind apparently was causing my tripod to move during my one and two minute exposures.  Well, this one turned out!  6 shooter HDR and no noise in the black sky.  It's a miracle!  It's Wyoming so it a 6 shooter not a 6 shot HDR just in case you were wondering.

Squeal New Orleans

We got to the Maple Leaf a little early and hadn't had any dinner so we walked down the street and found a nice little Barbeque place called Squeal.  We all had a delicious half rack of ribs which none of us finished.  ISO 400 1/4 sec at f5.6 HDR in Photoshop.  By the way this is my own Photoshop settings so if you try to do this with the standard Photoshop HDR it probably won't work or look like this.

Washington Temple

Here's a picture I took in 1975 with my Yashika TL Electra X with 50 mm lens. This picture is hand held so it's not great - exposure of about 1 or 2 seconds.