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Another outing with the Thousand Oaks Digital Photo Group, this time to LA’s Farmer’s Market and The Grove on the corner of Fairfax and 3rd. The Farmer’s Market is no longer a Farmer’s Market but rather an historic set of buildings with food vendors. Right adjacent was built The Grove, an outdoor upscale mall. Wandering around had the allure of being an interesting palate was was also sort of a photographers nightmare. Aside from the unshaded florescents and window glare, taking pictures of people in captive places is always a hit or miss proposition. Will they let you? Once you ask them will they continue to be relaxed and continue to go about their business? What are the ethics of taking street portraits with a 300mm lens unnoticed? (Not my style – actually).
But the day wasn’t a loss. I think about photography much like I did my music and you have to “practice, man, practice”. So I thought of the day as practice, and practice I did.
These two images were the result of that practice. At the end of the Grove is a clothier – Abercrombie & Fitch. They specialize is upscale downscale clothing just like the clothing you see being worn by this model in the doorway. I was walking around with two lenses – 17-40mm f/4 and 50mm f/1.4. These two were taken with the wide angle. It was kind of bright and glaring outside and she was standing in the shade of the doorway. I figured there were two possible approaches – HDR or high-key exposed for the doorway.
Here I show you one of each.
(BTW, not sure if you can see on these web-versions, but the detail captured by the 5dMkII is unbelievable)
Taken during the same dawn shoot as the Pelican’s Rising, it has taken me a few weeks to find a comfortable crop for this image.
I’ve become a little bit picky about my crop ratios was trying to stick to one of the two following ratios.
2:3 – standard 35mm, printed at 11″x16.5″
7:9 – standard print size of 11″x14″ and pretty close to 4:5
I’ve never really felt all that comfortable with free-crops. I seem to want to crave a balanced ratio, but the set of seascapes I did this day all seem to want a somewhat, but not exaggerated panoramic crop. 1:3 was too drastic and 2:3 included too much height. I was cropping these free but not satisfied. Tonight it dawned on my to try a 1:2 crop and every one of these clicked into place. I am now going to add it to my set of standards.
1:2 – gentle panorama, printed at 7″x14″
Finally got to processing some more of my shots from my Santa Barbara and Ventura shoot in late December.
This was the last place we stopped, the beach in Ventura just across from the fairgrounds. The surf was up from a storm off the coast and the wind would just peel water off the top. The constrast in B&W made me go there. Seems I am doing a good 50% of my shots in B&W these days.
Four Sentinels, originally uploaded by I Nancy.
A little dawn, a little HDR, a little secret sauce.
Pelican’s Flight, originally uploaded by I Nancy.
Dawn in Santa Barbara. It was worth the early morning wake up call.
Cambridge Night, originally uploaded by I Nancy.
A little more of Cambridge at night. The rain, so common in that part of the world, makes night shooting so rewarding.
Trees and Light, originally uploaded by I Nancy.
A little B&W. I’ve been working on images of local oaks and sycamores for several years. Finally, I think I’m making progress.
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Still some yellow jacketed Sycamore’s here in Los Angeles. This was taken on a hike at a local park.
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