Last Friday, a storm system brought lightning, thunder and a little bit of rain to San Diego again. This isn’t entirely unusual, but this year’s amount of summer storms that actually reach the coastal areas of the county is higher than what I’ve experienced in the past.
Low Tide
The First Sunset, Solana Beach
Impressions from a visit to the Solana Beach tide pools for the first sunset of 2020.
Filters or Blending?
A recent Twitter conversation about the pros and cons of graduated neutral density filters (often just called GNDs) made me think about my own approach towards handling high-contrast scenes. I’m not using GNDs anymore, rarely did so in the past, and I prefer exposure blending on the computer, or even just using “software GNDs” in a single exposure. I find it far more flexible* and prefer to have “pure data” without the (unalterable) effects of the filter in my original/initial exposures.
The Habit
Turning creative expression and the act of making photographs into a habit to avoid creative ruts.
Stranger Shores
I’ve finally gotten around to finalizing the photos from the morning outing to Hospital Point during a very low tide, back in June. I had Shannon’s infrared camera back then and my photo of the month for June was from that morning.