The Lone Flip Flop

So This is another picture form Thousand Steps Beach. The flip flop in the bottom left corner washed up on shore. I thought that this was a great setting for the picture, but I've been having problems processing it. It never came out just right.

Canon 600D, ISO-1000, f/4.5, 18mm, 1/30 sec
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Under the Pier Downtown....

Under the Santa Monica Pier. I took this on my photowalk. I've processed this image time and time again. I finally got a semi decent image and now I am posting it. I just noticed that I have posted this picture already. Oh well, nobody has noticed yet so maybe I should keep my yap shut.

Canon 600D, ISO-320, f/5.6, 53mm, 1/15 sec

Every drop in the ocean counts.

This was a fun picture to take. It was one of the first ones I took at Thousand Steps a couple weeks ago when I went. I was still warm from the drive over there, the sun was still out and my feet had not been engulfed in a wave from not looking where I was standing. I'm not complaining, it just seemed like this picture came to me too easily. But if I count in the rest of the time I spent at that beach that evening, it was a lot of work to end up with this picture. I guess it matters which direction you come from it.

Canon 600D, ISO-640, f/5.6, 35mm, 1/50 sec

Old and Grainy

So I had some fun with my shoot down on Thousand Steps Beach. I am not a fan of high ISO and this is one of the few that I actually like. There was an older couple jogging along the beach and I'm glad that they were standing together for my picture. And this was after I did some noise reduction. I like the grainy old style look to it. Let me know what you think.

Canon 600D, ISO-3200, 34mm, 1/50 sec

Once more into the break, dear friends

So I've never really tried taking pictures of waves. First picture of some waves. The break is too close to the beach to surf here, but it allows me to get some detail without a zoom. I really like this picture and I may mess around with it, maybe blur it a bit to compensate for the noise caused by the high ISO. I took classes to teach me about the relation of ISO and noise and the relation of f stops and depth of field, but that was at least a decade ago if not more so I've forgotten it all and am learning from scratch.

Canon 600D, ISO-640, f/4.5, 30mm, 1/40 sec.

The point of exposure

So, yes it was cloudy when I went down to thousand steps beach, but I made the best of it. Some clouds are great for pictures, but not these clouds. I had to take some long exposures in order to get even a little definition from them. Luckily waves always look great with long exposures. I'm going to go down to Thousand Steps again when the sky is a little more clear to get you some more exciting pictures. I do like this one and I hope that you do also.

Canon 600D, ISO-100, f/5, 41mm, 15 sec

Mists of Laguna

OK, so I kind of lied. It's a raw image not a bracketed shot. I had to up the exposure and color in Photoshop, so it's a bit altered but not a full HDR image. This was down at Thousand Steps. I was working on trying to get a picture with the terrible light that I was given and this was a pretty good picture IMHO. I decided that if it was going to be a long exposure that I would stop it down a few stops and make it a longer exposure.

Canon 600D, ISO-100, f/29, 29mm, 5 sec.

220 Steps, Not Thousand Steps.

So today I learned the value of looking at the forecast before planning a Photo shoot. So I had planned all week to go out today and take some pictures of the waves and sunset at Thousand Steps beach. I checked the tides, I checked what time sunset was, but I didn't check the weather forecast and it was cloudy and no pretty colors at sunset. But I did have fun with the waves and I did take a few pictures of the point and what not.


Canon 600D, ISO-100, f/14, 18mm, 30 sec

I to the world am like a drop of water

So in 2005 I took a trip to Maui with Eva to explore and visit family. We were exploring the beaches and I saw these waves breaking on the rocks and the sight was epic. I grabbed her camera and started shooting away. I think I took 20 pictures just to get this one exactly right with the waves and the mist coming off of it. The lens was a little damp at this point so please excuse the blurry sections. I also ran this through a few plugins in photoshop in order to get some more detail out of the flying sea water. Point and shoots aren't the best, but her old Sony was pretty good for taking these pictures. Well, I would have sat there all day if Eva hadn't dragged me away kicking and screaming, but it's ok, I got loco moco right after that so I didn't complain much after we hit the restaurant.

Sony DSC-P100, ISO 100, 24mm, f/5.2, 1/160 second