I have about 12 hours worth of driving to do today to return to Southern Oregon from Southern California. There should be a way I could just ride a wave home.

Posted on April 17th, 2012 under Other. Tags: beach, california, Newport Beach, nikon d7000, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on View from Newport Pier

After seeing the view from Griffith Observatory during the day, I thought I would head back up there at night for some more photos. However, after the Dodgers game I was able to capture the above from the parking lot at Chavez Ravine so I never made it back up to Griffith Park.

Posted on April 16th, 2012 under Other. Tags: california, los angeles, night photography, nikon d7000, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Los Angeles nightscape

Chris Capuano struck out 7 in just 5 innings for the Dodgers on Thursday evening, including Josh Harrison looking in the 1st inning. Wally Bell, the umpire behind home plate, gets pretty animated when the batter opts not to swing at the third strike.

Posted on April 15th, 2012 under Other. Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II, baseball, los angeles, nikon d7000, Nikon TC-17E II 1.7x Teleconverter. Comments Off on Wally Bell rings up Josh Harrison

At 11mm on my DX (crop sensor) Nikon D7000 today’s top image of Dodger Stadium is pretty wide. But I wanted to see what I could do with photomerge in Photoshop CS5 so I merged/stitched five images from the same vantage point together with the following result.

Not only do I like the result much more, but photomerge did a couple of really cool things. First, with each of the five images, the picture on Diamond Vision in left field changed. I thought photomerge would blend them all together into a mess. Instead, it took just the first one for a clean Diamond Vision scene. Second, players on the field and people in the stands were moving between the five photos. Somehow photomerge detected this and didn’t put multiple versions of the same person into the final scene. Very cool, photomerge. I think I love you. I guess I can ditch my ultra-wide angle lens and just photomerge my future photos together!

Posted on April 14th, 2012 under Other. Tags: baseball, california, los angeles, nikon d7000, panorama, photography, photomerge, photoshop, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments: 1

I’m down in Los Angeles for a few days and went to my first game at Dodger Stadium last night. I had a nice seat 12 rows behind home plate where I took today’s photo of Juan Uribe singling in the 1st inning. This was the last time the Dodgers scored, and they held on to win 3-2.

Posted on April 13th, 2012 under Other. Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II, baseball, california, los angeles, nikon d7000. Comments Off on Uribe singles in the game winner