Moonrise over the Bay
Tag: Sea Isle City
Sunset at the Bay
Sunset at the Bay
Sea Isle City, New Jersey
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Sunset at the Bay
A Day at the Beach
Dune
This is not only a cliché shot, it’s become a cliché within my library of vacation snaps. But what are you going to do? Sand dunes, fences and shadows demand to be photographed!
First Dusk at the Bay
I’ve posted a scene like this one most years I’ve been down the shore. this one has an interesting painterly quality deriving from the crummy mushy quality of the 2MP jpeg file.
White Plant
Another beautiful image that is over saturated, over contrasty and over-sharpened. Don’t know what I was thinking but I still have a soft spot in my heart for this one. No doubt the source of the artist’s advice to “murder your darlings.”
Leaf
I must also have discovered the saturation slider in Photoshop around this time.
Fucus
Judging by the light, this one, and probably the jellyfish too, were shot later that afternoon.
Jellyfish
Another mangled jpeg from that morning on the beach.
Signs of Friday
The 2MP Kodak was really a family camera. But one morning at the beach I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep. I took the camera down to the beach around dawn and re-awakened my dormant love of photography. You can see how crunchy the file is: 2 MP jpeg to start with and I probably sharpened the hell out of the original, not knowing any better.
Storm Comin’
A last shot on the beach as we pack up to leave, coincidentally as tropical storm Hermine is being warned against and the winds are picking up. Next post will be back to dear dirty New York.
More Fencing
Dune fence
48th Street
Fencing
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I used On1 Photo for B&W conversion of the 2 landscape-oriented images, then pulled back the opacity to bring back some of the color in the fences while the rest of the image remained almost totally monochromatic.
Morning Surf
Shooting on a tripod, I set the shutter speed to 1/8 second which blurs the motion of the surf.
Dawn Fisherman
Sunrise at the Beach
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The summer isn’t complete without getting up early one morning and trundling down to the beach to catch the sunrise. More postcard clichés for your delectation!
It was a real pleasure shooting the sunrise this year with my Fuji XT-1 and meFoto tripod. The camera made it a dream to adjust shutter-speed, aperture and exposure compensation, to manually focus precisely using the focus peaking feature, align shots with auto level indicator and instantly adjusting the tripod with the ball-head controls. Everything fell to hand easily. A pleasure.
Sunrise Fence
And the postcards keep comin’…
Fences
Dune fence
Sea Isle City, New Jersey
Fences
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Backyards
I was shooting with a long lens (Fuji 55 – 200mm, 300mm 35 equiv, for those who are interested) one of the side effects of which is the compression of distance, making the houses look all pressed upon one another.
Sundown at the Bay
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