Photos of the Cities by the Bay

Friday evening: San Francisco skyline from the Oakland Estuary just south of Jack London Square. (click on photos for larger version)

Saturday morning:

Morning jogger.

A view of the estuary.

More shots of Lakeside Park, Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA

Walkers

Lots of birds!

I don’t know what is stuck to the one fella’s beak. At first I thought it was a bird, but it’s not. Appears to be some kind of large barnacle.

That’s all for now. I’ll post more of the lake and surrounding real estate later. Gotta get back to work. Lunch is over.

Day 65 – Concrete Factory at Twilight

Shot in Fernley, NV at about 6:20 p.m. I processed this shot first in Lightroom 3.6 and then fine-tuned it in Photoshop. I shot this at 1600 ISO due the low light and the fact that I wasn’t using a tripod. Lightroom allows me to quiet the noise in a way I am not able to do in Photoshop.

Day 54 – Beam

As I have lighting class tonight and then will be returning to work after class to put together binders for a very important client visit tomorrow, and have no idea what time I’ll drag my hind end home, today’s shot is going up now. It is a portion of one of the massive beams that is part of our building’s architecture.

Day 52 – Country Gas Station at Night

First day back at work after a three-day weekend, so of course I was busier than usual. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I need to leave early to make it to school by 4pm for my lighting class, so I don’t take a lunch. Tonight was critique night, so I had no chance to shoot anything until after class.

This gas station sits at the crossroads of Highways 50 and 95, the location of our town’s one and only stoplight; a blinking one. Shot at ISO 1600, f/13, 1/60s (hand-held).

About critique night. Our third assignment was to shoot a face lit from six different angles. This was the shot everyone, including our teacher, felt was my best. I’m very happy with this shot. There is always room for improvement, and it’s far from perfect, but for my first foray into the light studio, it came out pretty good. Shot with a diffused light camera right, with a white poster board reflecting the diffuse light to provide some fill for the left side of her face.

Daughter © Carissa Snedeker

I’m making a switch

I decided to switch out two photographs of the six I chose for my lighting class. Instead of Buddy and the Christmas tree photo, I went back to my Intro to Digital Photography class and pulled one photo each from Project 3 (Narrative) and my final project, Day and Night (you can see the series here). The first is my husband and me (Project 3), and the second is the Tracy Clark hydroelectric power station on I-80 (Final Project).

Day 12

I am getting this one up early as I have obligations that will keep me out pretty late tonight, so I had to process using EOS Digital Professional and Photoshop 7. I returned to the turnstile. No car in the background and I left this one color because I like the division of blue sky and gray concrete beyond the gate.

Day 10

My first attempt at photographing my work place’s pedestrian security gate. It’s got all kinds of curves and heavy-duty plexiglass. I processed this one in black and white because I didn’t want anything to distract from the curves and lines. Likely I will return to this subject again.

Day 9

I’m fried. I got up early, got to work early, worked all day (aforementioned CEO site visit), and finally managed to run out at about 3:15 to make an ATM withdrawal. In the parking lot near the bank there was a Caterpillar bulldozer. I grabbed the opportunity.