Eiffel Tower Reworked...

This is a rework of one of our older photos of the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas Nevada. Hope you like it better then the old.

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A Kiss Is Just A Kiss....

This is a HDR image of a statue that is in San Diego commemorating the famous kiss that took place celebrating the end of World War II.

This statue is huge, and can be found in the downtown area, the USS Midway Museum is behind the statue. In this area there are a few other statues including a Bob Hope statue entertaining the troops. Definitely check out this area if you are in town.

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A Great Sunset

This is a one exposure HDR image of a sunset taken on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu Hawaii.

This was such a great night for taking pictures, the clouds were very interesting, the sun was casting very nice light on them, and the beach that night was very peaceful, such a great way to end a day in Hawaii. One of our favorite things in Hawaii was to be at the beach for great sunsets like this. If you go be sure to check some out.

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The Tower Of Terror

This is a 7 exposure HDR image of the Hollywood Tower of Terror and the Disneyland California Adventure Park.

Here is another version of the ride that we took this time in color. Again this was a difficult shot, because for some reason the camera on the tripod attracted people to walk towards it. Yes people do have to get around but they specifically walked towards the camera, go figure. Oh well we were still able to pull of a nice shot.

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Bridge To The City

Sorry for the long time in between posts but we have been busy finding a place to move, hopefully we will be able to take more pictures and post regularly soon.

Here is a 5 shot HDR image of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, and some of the skyline of San Francisco.

This night was such a beautiful one in the city. A summer night but it felt as if it could have been a winter night as cold as it was. The clouds were just right as well, they hid the moon and made it very interesting. The clouds were moving so fast the scene changed very fast, such an interesting night!!

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Las Vegas Eiffel Tower

This is a three shot HDR image of the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Paris Hotel and Casino. We then converted it to black and white.

This image really did work in color, but we felt it could be better in black and white, and it really does seem to work, especially the clouds.

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Diamond Head

This is a one shot HDR image of the Diamond Head volcano in Honolulu, Hawaii, this was shot from Waikiki Beach.

Hawaii provides so many great sunsets to shoot, while we were here we made sure to be out on the beach for quite a few of them. We stayed here during the start of December so the beach was not super crowded. As a result this image here did not require the need to photoshop out very many people.

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Like A Bridge Over Troubled Water

Actually the water was pretty calm on this night. This is a one shot HDR of a rock walkway in Waikiki, in Honolulu Hawaii.

This is a really popular spot that people like to walk out on and take in the sunset, along with take some photos. If you wait long enough though most disappear after the sunset and you can get photos like this. There were about 2 people in this photo but they were easy to take out.

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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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Under The Bridge...

Here is a one shot HDR image, converted to black and white, with textures added of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. Over the last few days we have been revisting some of our old images that were not as good. Of course this happens to ever one as you are just starting and learning, you are going to have a lot of images you look back on and don't like.

This image started of as an HDR in color the way we had it before and it was over done in our opinion. So the original intent was to go back and reprocess again in color, it didn't look right still. That's when we got the idea to try black and white, which looked good but still seemed to be missing something. We then added pictures and here is the final product. Much better in our opinion then before.

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If Your're Going To San Francisco

This is a one shot HDR image of the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge. The bridge is a double decker bridge and carries about 270,000 vehicles each day between Oakland and San Francisco. Some say this is a better looking bridge then the Golden Gate Bridge, what do you think?

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San Francisco Cable Cars

This image is a 3 shot HDR, it was then converted to Black and White leaving the cable car in color. Finally we added some textures to the image. The textures are actually from the walls of Alcatraz so this image is completely San Francisco. The cable cars are pretty fun attraction if you are visiting the city so give them a shot if you are ever here.

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The Grace Drawing

We just recently read an article on how to turn your photos into sketches so we thought we would give it a shot. This is the same picture as we posted yesterday, but processed to look like a drawing. We thought it turned out quite nice, what do you think?

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Grace and Gloom

This is a 3 shot HDR photo of the Grace Cathedral church in San Francisco. This is a very beautiful church inside and out, it really has the feeling of an old European church. The clouds were very nice on this day giving the photo a gloomy feel.

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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.