So Dan Z. the Younger, upon hearing of the then forthcoming, rather gratuitous, blog name change, dropped me a line cleverly suggesting blog.nashedphotatoes.com. In 100,000+ managed images not one of them a damned potato, so Dan you will have to accept profs for blog.nashedphotatosalad.com. Thinking strongly of renting nashedphotatoes.com — Eastern Market, DC, mid-December '10. Hah!
but alas, no grommets. From last fall, Patterson Park Pagoda. 5D Mk II, 100-400, 275mm @ f5.6, ISO 400, 1/250.
Springtime in DC, cherry blossoms are out and in. Outside and inside the Blue Duck watering hole at 24th and N NW. Cherry blossoms apropos the Kobe burgers. The handy XZ-1 employed again.
Stealthy snap across the two sided bar, cherry blossoms in background, perhaps a cherry concoction of some sort on the bar. Flashless stealthiness, ISO 250, f2.5, 1/10 shutter speed bailed out by image stabilizer and the ZX-1 sitting on the bar.
Great day for a photo but fast walk through parts of Butcher's Hill and Fells Point. The side of St. Stan's on Ann Street below is soon to be not overlooking an empty lot but a new set of row houses. The rest of the take are here on SmugMug.
Saturday, camerafied for a local walk, out the garage, into the alley and surprise, the Supik's fab '53 Chevy One Ton Panel truck is out and in the alley.
Thought that these might look good using the very popular "black crush" technique used in the 2007 film 300. Seems to be effective in minimizing the impact of the mid-day shadows in the alley. Tiffs exported to Flare for the 300 effect as it produces better looking output than the Aperture presets and Photoshop actions.
changes afoot! Nashification to supersede sprayedink. As in blog.nashification.com. Soon if not anon.
so little to say today and so many posts to say it. Dinner in the Northend. No liquor license so more to follow post wine consumption recovery.
The venue and Vespa envy...
The boys crooning
Their idol
across the better part of a decade. Lots of frames within frames. The SO dropped the top two into my box yesterday, immediately reminding me of some shots from July of '04. First two frame the Severn in Anne Arundle County, MD the second two the Potomac in St. Mary's County, MD. The upper iPhoned by SO yesterday the lower mine snapped via Canon 10D in '04. Top two clearly resonate better. Fortunately, me not so... err... structured anymore.
Texture from the gypsum plant that first appeared earlier today in the N.S. Savannah post
Drive by this all the time, finally had the right stuff to get a snap
Nearby on corner of Fait and South Montford Avenues
to have discovered the N.S. Savannah is docked in Baltimore. With the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and the resulting nuclear power plant damage, having the original nuclear merchant ship nearby isn't likely to be a point of civic pride. Despite having its reactor removed a long time ago, the Savannah, isn't exactly featured in the harbor anyway. It is docked at pier fronting an old gypsum plant between the Navy's Hospital Ship Comfort pier and the Maryland Transportation Authority's Container Port. N.S. is the abbreviation for Nuclear Ship.
About all the notoriety there is
The ship appears in better shape than the surroundings
Framed by the gypsum plant
The gypsum plant
The Comfort
Ms. Fancy Pockets! Hah!
One more HDR production. NikSoftware had a webinar today on B&W HDR. Featured a shot from Eastern State Penn in Philly. Have lots of those on hand, thought I would try one. Looks too good in color though to make into a B&W. Pretty good looking for HDR snap series. From March '10, 5D Mk II @ ISO 200, 35 f1.4 @ f8, three snaps, on the Gitzo.
ibid.
Same camera configuration, same HDR, bad, complex color cast so Silver Efex 2 and finally a Color Efex Soft Focus to subdue the crunchiness.
Half the SSC Atlas team camped in the Copley Marriott this week. The rest across the river in the PDR of Cambridge, at the Marriott visible in the middle of the snap. Snapped on the 35th floor with XZ-1 RAW. Processed with the just available ACR 6.4 RC and then Silver Efex 2 in seat twenty something C on a screwed up SWA flight from Logan to BWI.
The XZ-1 now has a Richard Franiec grip and a Gordy's strap. Not shown is the VF-2. Spare strap for the forthcoming X100.
Floyd, VA. The HDR Marathon grinds on. Different looks. First two in the afternoon (11/05), the next two in the early morning (05/06).
The Canning Factory
Around Behind
Up the road
Cross the street
in HDR, west of town, has seen better days, like when Beasley was a welp, September '09 on the 66 ride, reprise driven by new Nik stuff.
Ouside
Inside
Poolside
no, not exactly, well maybe, 66-side in Cuervo, west of Tucumcari. José Cuervo in tank help? Perhaps —spiced with HDR.
with an occasional splash of pink. All from Salt, some by me, most by SO, all in squares, black and white squares, like a New England front hall, all with the XZ-1...
Now with valet parking? Hah! Not likely.
On deck
Paco creates some concotion
Darren (the Murphy doppelgänger) preps a Silver Bullet
Iconic abscence
Waiter, waiting... patiently
Deal doer?
Sputnik POV
Stoly alley
There is a one bullet limit
For Murphy
Tongue tied
The party's over
On the stoop
Looking across Pratt along Collington
Alas the evening ends
at least the kind most would use to store photos. Storage to do airline reservations might be $100k per Terabyte but the stuff my snaps live on is about $65 per Terabyte. So that means it costs around 4¢ for 10 images including backup. Pretty cheap so why throw them away. More like why not keep them. I keep getting better at post processing and I keep getting better using software that is also getting better and the software is getting better a lot faster than I get better. So snaps that maybe didn't look so good when I took them have the potential to look a lot better a couple of years later. Kinda like booze, whiskey I think would taste like hell right after it was stuck in the barrel, ten to twenty years later maybe it is a great single malt. Anyway, I was looking a NikSoftware webinar for HDR Efex which I got to replace the difficult to use Photomatix so I went back through the archives and redid some old snaps. One thrice bracketed series from Fort Delaware in June of '09, and two from August '06; a single shot faux HDR from the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and a set of nine bracketed snaps from the Old Idaho Penitentiary, in Boise.
Snaps post processed in HRD Efex then another pass in Color Efex with Tonal Contrast and then with Glamour Glow. Final tune up done in Aperture.
Anyway, I think these prove, that old is worth keeping around and old keeps getting better — kinda like stuffed peppers, hey!
Fort Delaware
Old Idaho Pennetentiary
Eastern State Pennetentiary
