Here come the lilacs. I think I used Velvia “film” on this one.
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Photo of the Day - March 2022
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An impromptu street portrait in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood.
Very nice Molly. It makes the viewer wonder....longing for something or someone?....regretting a past decision?....
I think there is a difference of opinion about who’s quilt it is!
Taken on your phone? I believe you usually or always use the phone for your street phtography. Good one.
Not the Tidal Basin, but our neighborhood trees with their lovely white blossoms create a pretty sight anyway!
don't adapt to the energy of the room. influence the energy of the room. // unknown
nikon z6 + lensbaby velvet 85 + extension tubes + raynox macro filter | iso 1000 | f/5.6 | 1/160
Scouting around up near Boulder, Colorado.
Thanks!
I made that photo around 10 years ago when I was working on a couple of projects. Back then I was shooting with a Canon 5DII and a 35mm f/1.4 lens for both candids and portraits. That ended up being my favorite lens for the street as it was wide enough to give some decent environmental context. I did have to be careful getting too close where perspective distortion would make hands/noses/purses/etc appear too large.
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens, from back in 2009.
My brother and sister-in-law went to a Ramen restaurant in the arts district we wanted to try. It is so tre-chic the menus are available via a QR code online - while in the restaurant. We sat at the bar. The chilled ramen was so good.
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Shot was taken in Rodeo Lagoon by Rodeo Beach. Sausalito, California. 🌼
The National Center for Atmospheric Research's Mesa Lab in Boulder, a place I like to go and shoot (I've shown other images previously). The architect was IM Pei (he died in 2019 at 102!). Yesterday's shot was just off of the mesa looking south (to the left in this image). Interestingly, a few hours after taking these images (I was there in the morning), a large fire started in the valley you can see in yesterday's post, prompting the evacuation of 1200 homes. This area isn't too far from where the Marshall fire started on December 30 of last year burning through over 1000 homes in a matter of a few hours in the towns of Louisville and Superior. Luckily, while the winds were in the 30-50 mph range yesterday, they weren't the 115mph winds we saw during the Marshall fire. As of now, no structures have burned. The Mesa lab became the staging area for the firefighting crews.
Image is ISO 100, 1/125s, multiple images frame averaged (about 2.5 minutes of total time elapsed), a small bit of tilt on a ~28mm equivalent lens. After the fire dies down and I can get back up there, I hope to finally go behind the building to get some images showing it and the expanse of Boulder over the plains behind.
EDIT: Replaced the image with one where I preferred the white balance - the original seemed off to me with more greenish tint than I wanted. It's always good to step away from an edit and then come back to it.
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Impromptu street portrait, downtown San Francisco. Pre-pandemic.