7-photo photomerge of Santa Barbara (December 2013)

I’ve spent much of my 52+ years on the planet in California. I was born there. I’ve lived near the border for more than the last 20 years. 1988 is the only year that I spent zero time in California (as I was in Japan the entire year). In 2020 I spent less than one day in California. That was for a brief hiking excursion in the Trinity Alps.

Hopefully, 2021 will be better, but so far I have no plans to venture into California this year.

Posted on January 12th, 2021 under Other. Tags: california, landscape, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, panorama, photomerge, santa barbara. Comments Off on View from the clock tower of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse

Without Topaz Adjust AI and DeNoise AI

Once upon a time, about eight and half years ago, I didn’t shoot in RAW; I only saved my shots in jpg format. Alas, those photos are far more difficult to process in terms of getting them to look like what the scene originally looked like. The above, 11-photo photomerge is one such example. In Photoshop I wasn’t able to get the final panorama to look like the brilliance of the sunset from that one evening in New York back in 2012. Because I shot in jpg, the details were muddy and not recoverable (in Photoshop at least).

I downloaded Topaz Labs’ Adjust AI to see if it could do better. Adjust AI comes with a bunch of filters, none of which I liked. However, the adjustments for highlights, colors, shadows, etc. are far more powerful and customizable in manual mode than what you see in Photoshop, and I was able to bring the scene back to something more closely resembling what I saw with my naked eye that evening. The results are below.

With Topaz Adjust AI and DeNoise AI

Topaz Labs’ Adjust AI is available for under $50 until 12/31/20. Use the code holiday2020 at checkout.

Posted on December 29th, 2020 under Other. Tags: brooklyn bridge, landscape, new york, nikon d7000, panorama, photomerge, RAW vs Jpg jpeg, sunset, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon, topaz denoise. Comments Off on Topaz Adjust AI

7-photo photomerge of Citi Field, home of New York Mets (2012)

Posted on November 20th, 2020 under Other. Tags: baseball, mets, new york, nikon d7000, photomerge, sports photography, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Citi Field

@GoDucks #GoDucks @pac12 @AutzenStudents

Posted on November 16th, 2020 under Oregon. Tags: eugene, football, Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D nikkor lens, Nikon D600, Oregon, panorama, photomerge, sports photography. Comments Off on Seven years ago today…

Roger Waters performs The Wall in San Francisco (May 2012)

@rogerwaters @OracleParkSF

Posted on October 15th, 2020 under Other. Tags: california, concert photography, nikon d7000, photomerge, roger waters, san francisco, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on So ya, Thought ya, Might like to go to the show…