The location is Lake Arrowhead, CA. I lived here for several years back in the 90's. Great to live here during the summer, awesome to visit during the winter!

This image was taken around noon while the clouds were breaking up and making way for sun shine. This cloud was creeping up over this roof. Roof? Yes, that is simply a roof covered with snow. I'll post another from the same batch of images soon. I pulled this image off of my Facebook account. As a result I don't have the exposure data.


Nikon D200 70-200mm Lens

On Sunday the 22nd I had the opportunity to shoot this excellent band. The band's name is Zhono and their myspace page is available here. Zhono

This brick backdrop is part of the building where they practice. The band members are standing a landing and I am several steps up shooting down.

From left to right
Moe (Bass), Chris (Keys), Pao (Vocals), Alonzo (Drums), Angel (Guitar)

Here is a capture of the Mickey & Friends parking structure adjacent to the Disneyland resort in Anaheim, CA. Rarely do you get to see a bridge network like this. Couldn't resist. This shot was obviously taken at night. I used the railing as a support for the camera.

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Nikon D200 70-200mm at 70mm for 1/30 sec

My family and I were visiting relatives in Lake Arrowhead, California. There is an outdoor shoping mall by the name of Lake Arrowhead Village, I know very creative. Anyways, walking along the main stretch and my sister-in-law Jonie spots this super cool dog. Very well behaved as well!


Nikon D200 - will add camera data soon

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Nikon D200 - HDR processing removes camera data.

Here is an attempt using two separate methods to obtain a nicely exposed (hopefully composed) image. First I set out to take a few HDR shots. I will explain HDR in a minute. Secondly, I invoked the Zone System created by Ansel Adams back in the 30's.

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and is used quite extensively by many photographers both experienced and entry level. One of the big problems with cameras (especially digital cameras) is lack of range from black to white. Us humans see far greater levels of black to white than a camera can. Therefore our cameras usually have to loose the bright sky or the dark shadows in a contrasty image. HDR allows us to cover most of the range from black to white in post processing (on the computer).

The Zone System is simply a method to help us photographers compensate for what a camera "thinks" should be a proper setting. We know brightly lit grass should be brighter than what the camera determines, so we adjust accordingly. This is a simple explanation of course.