Watkins Mill - Graffiti Side

Boogieman and I have been here before with cameras in hand. This time the girl came with me. Here are her shots. (You don't want to miss "token with tolkein.")

Boogieman and I have always explored the east of the bridge/overpass. But the girl was eager to look and and photograph the graffiti. So we went under the bridge and out the other side.

The graffiti was pretty spectacular, but certainly not moreso than the sun reflecting on the water, the rock formations, or taking off your shoes and feeling the cold, wet, mossy ground.

This is the one that Boogieman likes.


f/1.4, 1/1600 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400
post-processing: cropping, amp treatment, posterize level 8

It's endlessly fascinating to me all the colors of light that get reflected of the top of this filing cabinet with a desk lamp on it. The only thing different from the previous shot is the proximity to the light.

f/1.4, 1/1250 sec., 50 mm, ISO 400
post-processing: cropped, levels, contrast, liquify

Lost in the Weeds, again

Driving down the road, it was these colors that caught my attention.


f/5.6, 1/640 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400 (cropped)


f/8, 1/250 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400

Then once I got out, and took a few shots, I kind of got lost in the weeds. This was back in the early days of the fifty, shooting wide open, of course!


f/1.4, 1/8000 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400 (cropped)


f/1.4, 1/8000 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400


f/1.4, 1/8000 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400


f/1.4, 1/6400 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400


f/1.4, 1/8000 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400 (cropped)


f/1.4, 1/6400 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400


f/1.4, 1/6400 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400


f/1.4, 1/5000 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400


f/1.4, 1/6400 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400

I bet I got a lot of interesting looks from all the cars going by. I was thoroughly oblivious, of course.


f/8, 1/320 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400

Location: Watkins Mill Road
Date: 01.05.2008
Time: 2 PM

Long Exposures

Here are the long exposure shots I got that fateful day at the mall.


f/20, 1 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400 (28-130 mm lens)


f/20, 1 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400 (28-130 mm lens)


f/22, 1.3 sec., 28 mm, ISO-200

Before I got kicked out for taking pictures of flowers and gumball machines.


f/2.8, 1/50 sec., 50 mm, ISO-500 (50 mm lens)


f/1.4, 1/125 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400 (50 mm lens)

I still have some work to do before I get good at those long exposure shots. I do have to say, they are fun to try.

Location: Any Mall, Anywhere, USA
Date: 01.05.2008
Time: noon

Solar Power

I posted one of these on Ampersand's Space back when I took them, but in this case, I could not choose just one.

No post-processing, except to remove (the healing tool in PS elements) the dust spots that have already collected on my sensor. The always show up in the sky.


f/22, 1/125 sec., 28 mm, ISO-400



f/22, 1/250 sec., 85 mm, ISO-400



f/22, 1/100 sec., 85 mm, ISO-400



f/22, 1/160 sec., 65 mm, ISO-400

Location: Rte. 108 & Fieldcrest
Date: 01.02.2008
Time: 4:45 PM

Random Tree Shot

I suspect there will be many of these. :)


f/16, 1/50 sec., 50 mm, ISO-640 (cropped, no other post-processing)

Date: 01.02.2008
Location: MV Shopping Center
Time: 8 AM

Watkins Mill Tree

This is a tree that I've long admired. It's adjacent to our local community golf course. I was trying out my wide angle lens (20-35 mm) that I had from my Canon EOS film SLR, before I got my new DSLR. Jeff, my photographic consultant :), told me that this lens would be a little soft and he was right! I do hope to play with it some more, on wider apertures and closer shots, rather than landscapes, but for these tree shots, I just used the poster edges effect to clean up the soft edges.


f/22, 1/25 sec., 24 mm, ISO-400



f/22, 1/60 sec., 20 mm, ISO-400



f/22, 1/80 sec., 35 mm, ISO-400 (cropped)

I really like the tree so much. It's branching is so very awesome. I'll have to try to shoot it again sometime with the tripod and the 28-135 mm lens.

Here's another tree, on the other side of golf course.


f/22, 1/30 sec., 31 mm, ISO-400

Location: Watkins Mill Road (MV golf course)
Date: 01.02.2008 (it was sooooooo cold that morning, my hands were like ice cubes.)
Time: 8:50 AM

Geometry

f/16, 1/13 sec., 50 mm, ISO-800

Post-processing:

1) Amp treament, ink outlines, cut out (sometimes I like to use ink outlines before overlaying another effect, it emphasizes the lines, or sometimes just preserves them, depending on what the second effect is.

2) Above, with black and white (urban) conversion.

Location: MV Shopping Center
Date: 01.02.2008
Time: 8:30 AM

Sunset

(Catching up on my backlog.)

This was an early experiment with the 50 mm to see what it did with a sunset, wide open.

I like the result.


f/1.4, 1/50 sec., 50 mm, ISO-800


f/1.4, 1/50 sec., 50 mm, ISO-800


f/1.4, 1/80 sec., 50 mm, ISO-400


f/1.4, 1/8 sec., 50 mm, ISO-800


f/1.4, 1/25 sec., 50 mm, ISO-800

Location: Our Neighborhood
Date: 01.01.2008
Time: 5:30 PM