look at what I saw coming down the street

Final Project

Here is one image (not finished yet, may change alot) for my final project.

Rain in the middle July

Very unusual (for Concord), we got rain in the middle of July. I took these this morning about 8AM.

Tree

I took this picture on top of Dinosaur Hill (in Pleasant Hill)

btw anyone know how Dinosaur Hill got its name?

Here is another Oakland image

Some pictures I shot in Oakland last night

Here are some pictures I took while walking the streets of downtown Oakland last night.

A typical comment I got, "hey man don't take my pciture." (true)

I'm hitting the bottle

These images are for the Quality of Light assignment. I took these today while hiking along Franklin Canyon Road.

A couple of more Quality of Light images

2 More

More Quality of light images

This is really taking alot of time. I think 25 pictures would have been enough.

3 more images for the Quality of Light assignment

Here are 3 more images. Need 60 images total. I figured if I spend 10 minutes shooting each image and 10 minutes processing each image that 60 * 20 or 1200 minutes total or 2o hours. I've actually been taking more like 30 minutee to find and shoot each and anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes processing.

3 more images for the Quality of Light assignemnt

Here are 3 more images.

Quality of Light (2)

Here is my second Quality of light photo. I have a colored on BW version.

Which do you prefer?

Quality of Light (1)

Here is one of my quality of light images. I went out to shoot some pictures saturday night and forgot my tripod, I put the camera on a rock. Scene was very dark (darker than the image appears) and I had trouble focusing because I couldn't see. Shutter speed was 30 seconds at f6.3, white balance was set to auto. I think I'll try to take this again with my tripod. It was very windy and camera wasn't very steady on the rock. Image is a bit soft but I like it that way.

What do you think?

July 4th 2007 Fireworks

Here is the 4th of July show at Dave Brubeck park.

July 3rd 2007 fireworks 2nd set

Here is the second set of images from the July 3rd 2007 fireworks display at Dave Brubeck park.

July 3rd 2007 Fireworks

At Dave Brubeck park in Concord CA they put on a fireworks show on July 2, 3, and 4. Here are some pics I took at the show. Shutter speed for most of the pictures was 3 seconds at f22.

Experiment 1

Which contains more information, an image that is in focus or one that is out of focus? I did an experiment to find out.

To do this I shot 2 sets of three images each. The first set represented a typical image (flowers) and the second was a low-contrast image (pavement). I shot in focus, somewhat out of focus and a very out of focus image for each set. The camera image quality was set to JPEG NORMAL (I wanted to compress the images). I used the compressed image filesize as a way to get a measure of the amount of information contained in an image. The larger the filesize the more information contained in the image.

In both sets the in focus image contained the most information and there was a significant drop in information between the in foucs and somewhat out of focus images (see images above). The was also a drop in the amount of information between the somewhat out of focus and the very out of focus images but not to the degree of the in focus and somewhat out of focus images. It appears that even slightly out of focus images may experience significant information loss.

Infrared Photos

I took these pictures today using both my infrared filter and my starburst filter.

Wasp

I like this picture from the 48 in 24 assignment (but I didn't choose it as my favorite).

The location is my backyard.

First Post

First Digital Photography class. Not much yet but I will be posting pictures soon.