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My final daily photo for Year 4 at a Santa Monica beach
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR at 18mm
Exposure settings: ISO 200, f/9, 1/40s
Cropped dimensions: 3387 x 2267 pixels
Other stuff: ND grad filter, -2/3 EV Continue reading »
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Daily photo for 11/4/11 - Pleasure Pier
It rained today, and post-storm photos tend to be quite lovely. For me, the logical thing to do was head down to the beach near the Santa Monica Pier around sunset. I’ve done that many times before, but I can’t say that it ever gets old. Continue reading »
Today I participated in Scott Kelby’s 3rd Annual Photo Walk.
Rusty - Photo of the Day for 7/24/10
To learn about it from the source, check out www.worldwidephotowalk.com. Basically, people get together in groups on the same day, all across the world, and take photos as they walk around. If you’re unfamiliar with Scott Kelby, he has a whole digital photo empire, mostly related to Photoshop instruction. Because so many people read his blog and whatnot, his Photo Walk has become quite an event.
The walk I signed up for was in Santa Monica, so I could just walk to it. About 20-30 of us met at the camera obscura, walked the pier, back up to the Promenade, then to the farmer’s market and back to the camera obscura. The walk leaders gave some nice photo tips, but it was pretty loosely organized so we kind of all just wandered around.
Don’t know what a camera obscura is? Wikipedia tells all. Our walk leader described it as “being inside a pinhole camera.” Don’t know what a pinhole camera is? Again, Wikipedia. Continue reading »