The Christmas Spirit was high, Double-decker bus high! Usually my architectural photography is all about holding very, very still. Not this time.
Photoshop Translation (quote)
"I'll fix it in Photoshop™," This quote is usually loosely translated to: "I'll screw it up in camera." Client: Cardkey, Model: Brian Kent, Photograph by www.schafphoto.com
Nikon D800E – For Architecture + a Moiré Hunting Safari (Updated 5-’14)
11 things a still photographer found out about the Nikon D800 and/or D800E when it showed up yesterday. And a link to full size photos on Flickr showing uncorrected D800E moiré.
Then & Now. It’s Like 1934 All Over Again… HABS Style.
HABS of the Blue Wing Adobe in Sonoma… Again? Historic American Buildings Survey Roger Sturtevant, Photographer Feb. 12, 1934 VIEW FROM NORTH-EAST (FRONT) – Blue Wing Inn. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS CA-1438-1 Last month we had the pleasure of documenting Sonoma's Blue Wing Inn Adobe. It was officially an…
Instant Bug Fix – Attached photos in Apple Mail become embedded .BMP files on PC’s (Outlook)
Macs are from Mars and PC’s are from Venus, so it’s no surprise they don’t speak the same language. Every time I send Jpegs (.jpg files) to clients on PC’s between Mac Mail and Outlook or even Earthlink’s e-mail service the photos appear embedded and can only be seen as Bitmap (.BMP files). The 5 second solution rename the
HABS on HIGH -Sonoma Blue Wing Inn Survey
While the rest of the visitors to Sonona taste wine and cheese, we’re surveying the Blue Wing Inn Adobe to add to the HABS documentation from 1934…
Bixby Bridge HAER (Historic American Engineering Record)
Bixby Bridge HAER… This photo speaks a thousand words, (it’s two 5×7 negatives, so maybe 2000 plus a couple hundred to descrbe the itching and the perfect weather conditions) and it’s a panorama though not quite 360 degrees. I think the photo title should be 1000/360.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (or Dusk)
Architectural photography in Southern California allows for a lot of sun-lighting variation but inevitably the south facing buildings are finished in summer and the north facing ones are ready in winter… Must be Murphy’s Law of solar frustration.
The “F”-word & The HABS at the Edge of America
One of the most interesting HABS photography projects in a while took me to the bottom edge of America last week to photograph the San Ysidro Customs House in San Diego at the Tijuana border… a cram-me-into-a-corner-with-a-camera affair.
Talented Masons, Opium Pipes, and a Big Hole in San Francisco
A year ago I spent a drizzly couple of December days doing a HABS-like documentation of a handsome brick building on Natoma Street in Downtown San Francisco…
The brick buildings are gone, the bus ramps are gone, the Pfleuger Terminal is gone and construction proceeds day and night; but opium pipes and porcelain doll heads from the 1880s keep telling stories.