Sunset at Drake’s Beach on Sunday was gorgeous – lighting up the clouds. This image was shot with my Nikon D600 and post-processed in Photoshop with a few Lab color tweaks.
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Here’s another view of Ocean Beach from my New Year’s Day explorations. When I processed this image, I thought it sort of looked like some of the images I’ve seen from Burning Man – thus the title Burning Edge. This image was processed only in Lightroom 4.3 using Trey Ratcliff’s Lightroom Presets.
A couple of weeks ago, I headed to San Francisco on a rainy day – with my new Nikon D600 in hand. After a great time at Crissy Field, I started to head home – along San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. The waves were up – and I pulled over as I headed south on the Great Highway.
This image captures a solitary walker out on the beach, alone. The salt air in your hair!
Yesterday, I stopped by Baker Beach before heading home. The rain had stopped but the wind was still blowing and the clouds were rolling through.
Here’s another before and after comparison of this image shot with my Nikon D600 handheld standing on the edge of the parking lot at Baker Beach shooting toward Lands End. The homes to the left are in the Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco.
Below is the original, straight out of the camera shot – rather flat and boring. I thought so at the time – although I liked the composition a lot. Among other things, you might notice a smudge in the clouds – apparently from some moisture on the outside of the lens.
I processed the final image using Photoshop CS6 ending up with over 10 layers of adjustments and tweaks. As I worked with the image, I kept seeing more things in the image and it sucked me in to having lots of fun playing with some of the recent tricks that Doug Kaye and I have been experimenting with.
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This morning I headed over the hill to Half Moon Bay – hoping to catch a few shots of the James Johnston House with some puffy clouds in the sky. But my plans were thwarted – the clouds had moved south and the was a Holiday Boutique and Winter Tea underway at the house. So, instead, I headed north up Highway 1 to Moss Beach and Fitzgerald Marine Reserve.
Fitzgerald is one of my favorite spots along this part of the Pacific coast – and I was back with my new Nikon D600 and tripod to see what I could find. As it turned out, there’s a lot of repair work going on in the Reserve. At first I was disappointed but after I walked in further I saw an opportunity for a shot. Unfortunately, being a relative novice with the new camera, I wasn’t able to get a clean HDR image (tripod shake, no cable release, not knowing how to use the self-timer). So, instead, I opted to just post-process one of the single image shots I got as part of a 3 image HDR bracketing sequence.
Here’s that original image:
Tonight I processed the image in Photoshop CS6 – applying some of the techniques I’ve learned recently in workshops with Mark Lindsay and Harold Davis – along with some additional explorations that Doug Kaye and I have doing around these workflows. Much of the goal in applying these techniques is to transform a “flat” image into one which has much more depth – helping to focus our eyes on the areas of high interest.
Here’s tonight’s result:
On Thursday this week, I joined a group of photographers from the Marin Photography Club on Treasure Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. My photo buddy Doug Kaye organized the event.
We began at the Bliss Dance sculpture – this is an interpretation looking back at the skyline of San Francisco just as the sun was setting. Shot with my new Nikon D600.
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