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Tokyo Station
I briefly saw Tokyo Station last time I was in Japan. This time I wanted to take a better look. While the station has been significantly redeveloped over the years, the west frontage that looks towards the Imperial Palace has … Continue reading
Posted in photo, technique, Travel
Tagged architecture, building, Japan, panorama, photo, railway, Tokyo station, travel
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Practice Panning to Make it Different at BFI
I was killing some time at Boeing Field and the light was dropping fast. There was a variety of traffic inbound but nothing that counted as terribly unusual and not, therefore, something I desperately cared about getting a good shot … Continue reading
Posted in aircraft, civil, Pacific Northwest, photo, technique
Tagged aircraft, airplane, Boeing Field, civil, KBFI, king county, low, photo, seattle, shutter speed, slow, technique, washington
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Blending to Remove Traffic
During a previous visit to Vancouver, I experimented to blending images of the same scene to remove objects I didn’t want included. When photographing the bridge at Deception Pass, I decided to have another go at this. The bridge was … Continue reading
Posted in Pacific Northwest, photo, technique
Tagged adobe, average, blend, median, photo, photoshop, processing, remove, statistics, technique
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LR Instagram
I am a latecomer to Instagram. I have had an account for quite a while but I did not use it much and certainly did not spend much time checking it out. One of the reasons was that it was … Continue reading
My First Attempt at Focus Stacking
I first read about focus stacking a long time ago and I have been meaning to try it for ages. The premise is to take a series of shots with the focus set in different positions throughout the scene and … Continue reading
Posted in photo, technique
Tagged adobe, depth of field, Focus, image, photo, photoshop, processing, software, stacking, technique
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Supermoon Rising
The combination of the Super Moon, the blue moon and the lunar eclipse was something a lot of people were interested in. Sadly, we were due to have a cloudy night so none of the excitement was going to be … Continue reading
Posted in Pacific Northwest, photo, technique
Tagged blue moon, Bothell, hdr, moon, photo, rise, sunset, super moon, washington
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Lightroom Keyword Approach Update
I have been using Lightroom since the first version came out many moons ago. For most of that time, I have been actively keywording my photos. It is a bit time consuming, but it does provide for good searchability and … Continue reading
My Copy of Lightroom Got Sick
After a previous update to Lightroom (6.12), it became almost unusable. Importing would take forever and, once the images were in, it would grind to a halt. Keywording and editing became a nightmare. I was struggling to work out what … Continue reading
Posted in equipment, photo, technique
Tagged adobe, computer, degradation, failure, hardware, impending, Lightroom, performance, photoshop, software, updates
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My Approach to Shooting and Processing on Crappy Weather Days
A rare arrival was due on a day that was not good from a weather perspective. It was dull and rainy and so not what you would hope for. Conditions like this mean I try to exploit some of the … Continue reading
Posted in aircraft, civil, Pacific Northwest, photo, technique
Tagged 737, aircraft, airliner, airplane, alaska, Boeing, civil, compensation, Exposure compensation, jet, jpeg, ksea, Lightroom, overexposure, photo, processing, raw, seatac, shooting, technique, washington
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Sunbeams Over Sandown Bay
The stormy skies over the Island were very active in the Sandown Bay area. In the course of a couple of minutes, you could see the valleys on the opposite side of the bay have clouds wisp across them and … Continue reading