The day started by an early morning visit of San Diego along Broadway street. There are remnants of San Diego’s wood balconies, similar ones can be seen abundantly in Lima, this one below dates back from 1888:
A lame lack of taste? You can find all kinds of meats here as this ‘steak’ place is both a strip club and steak house…
Here are a few pictures from San Francisco’s Gay Pride from June 28th 2009. The event which lasted about 3 hours kicked off from Market/Embarcadero and finished nearby the Civic Center.
My only gripe would be the presence of many political members polishing their image for upcoming elections, funny enough I didn’t notice any Republican, how odd…
Photos were taken with a Nikon D90 and Nikon 18-200mm VR.
I drove to Yosemite in the morning for a Moonbow photography seminar of the lower falls, the disappointment grew as I got closer to Yosemite Park and discovered a thick layer of clouds. Until now I never was keen on shooting with overcast skies as you end up with either overblown sky highlights, or a too dark landscape. This time though I had my tripod handy which made it a perfect opportunity to experiment with HDR processing.
HDR processing combines several pictures taken at different exposures to bring out details in both highlights and shadows areas, a tripod is a must. Some cameras have auto-bracketing options.
Settings on a D90:
First, set the bracketing as desired via the BKT button located on the front left side of the camera, now would probably be a good time to take a look at your D90′s manual, I usually set it to 3F 2.0 which corresponds to 3 pictures at -2EV, 0EV, +2EV. We also want to automate the capture to prevent camera shake and delay between pictures, to do so set the D90 to take 3 pictures in the Timer menu. Finally, set the camera to use the timer, press the shutter, and once the time is up the D90 will automatically take 3 pictures at the exposures you selected.
Note: if you are shooting RAW and don’t have a tripod you can get away taking a single picture and generating JPEGs at different exposures through your favorite RAW editing software (Photoshop, Nikon Capture, etc…). While it is convenient the shadow areas can exhibit a hefty amount of noise, therefore a tripod will still produce better results.
