So last weekend the wife surprised me witha trip to Park City...actually on Sunday the 21st she had given me a card with this picture inside. I took that picutre last May in Park City Utah. My wife had been telling me she was going to take me on a surprise weekend to an unknown destination...well it was Park City Utah and she wanted me to spend the weekend taking photos...unfortunatley I did not take too many photos, but I did catch these balloons taking off in the early morning. Funny thing is I was driving 65MPH on the freeway when I took it! Always be prepared!
Tonight I shot something I have long planned but never accomplished. I have wanted to shoot the Hotel Angeleno for quite some time. Set just beyond the 405 freeway with the Getty Museum tucked away just above it, I figured it was a prime nightscape. Well tonight on my way home from a friends poker game I decided to brave the 50 degree weather and capture the shots I had envisioned. I am happy with the way they turned out!
I almost always shoot RAW...but last night before I started using my camera I had a couple of glasses of wine and did not notice my camera was set to a mode which only allows JPG. Even though one has less control over the white balance in JPG vs. RAW the white ballance can be easily corrected.
If you do not own Scott Kelby's "Photoshop CS2 for Digital Photographers" stop reading this and go out and purchase the book. It took me less than five mintues to correct this photo...you can see the yellow cast from the incandecent light in the inset picture...easily corrected!
Absence makes the heart grow fonder...and for me it kicks me in the butt to go out and take photos of things I normally wouldn't had my wife been around. Tonight I will pick her up from LAX at 7PM...we have been apart since December 28th when I left New York. This is the longest we have ever been apart and I miss her!
So Saturday afternoon I was bored and decided to go out and shoot after taking care of some errands. By the time I got finished doing all the things on my list it was already 3:30...too late to go to Downtown LA for some random shots. I had heard about people taking pictures of incoming planes from the parking lot of In N' Out Burger and decided to check it out.
I got there around 4PM about an hour before sunset and snapped some shots of incoming planes...man what a rush when the planes are about 30 - 40 feet over your head!!! There were several photographers there...enev one guy who says he is there several times a week. It is really a neat place to visit if you have never been.
The best time to go is about 20 minutes before sunset...the sunsets are spectacular and they create a specatcular backdrop as you can see in the photo above.
Tonight I hope I can leave work in time to catch another sunset at LAX. After that I will have a Double Double with cheese and then pickup my wife who will be on one of those incoming planes.
Last night I played in my regular poker game...the best thing I walked away with last night was this picture of the hosts cat Ziggy. Sometimes even when you lose...you win.
Well...while the wife remains back east until Monday it has given me the opportunity to get out and shoot. Today after work I decided to go to the beach and capture the sunset. Boy am I glad I did!!! The sunset was spectacular this evening and I managed to cpature a whole bunch of great shots inluding this silouhette....
I shot a bunch more fantastic shots but I have yet to process them. In the meantime here is one from last nights excursion downtown...
