San Jose City Hall

This is a shot of the city hall in San Jose, CA. The building was designed by the same architect that desinged the Getty Center in Los Angeles, at a total cost of 382 million dollars.

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Sun Yet Sen Temple

This is a 3 shot HDR of a Sun Yet Sen Temple in a park in our area. A little from the web about Sun Yet Sen.

Sun is frequently referred to as the founding father of Republican China, a
view agreed upon by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Sun played an instrumental role in inspiring the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, the last
imperial dynasty of China.

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Lake Reflections

This is a three shot HDR image of a lake at a park near our home. This lake really is not all that interesting, in fact we didn't think much of it when we took the shots. But when we got around to giving the shots the HDR treatment the scene came out a lot prettier then we thought it would.

A very good lesson, if you see something that catches your eye take the shot and don't debate if you should take it or not. If your using a digital camera your not wasting any film so why not? You never know the shot may come out better then you hope for.

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To The Clouds...

It is always nice to have a clear day when shooting, but clouds a lot of times can add to your picture. Here are a few examples of what I mean.

Here is a before and after of a beach in Pebble Beach, California that we added some clouds to in Photoshop,

as you can see, it was not bad without clouds but with them it makes the  photo a little more interesting.

Next is a before and after photo of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California. This house is believed

to be haunted and their is a lot of strangeness associated with it, so we wanted to add some clouds to add a dark feel to it. The after image is in HDR so it also looks a lot different from the original.

You can see here the original image was ok, but adding clouds and doing an HDR gave the image a kind of mystery and dark feel that we were going for.

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So be sure to start taking pictures of clouds (really good activity too if your out of ideas on what to shoot), you never know when they can come in handy.