Jellyfish Mini-MeViews: 370No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Jellyfish
The jellyfish exhibition at the Monterey Aquarium offers up an incredibly array of colorful subjects. They aren't that easy to photograph, though, because the jellyfish are constantly moving, swimming to and fro under low light conditions. High ISOs on today's digital cameras help. And I replaced my beloved 18-200mm lens with a faster 35mm f/2 lens.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2009 12:32 PM•Views: 368
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Awake with the Fishes - Diver at the Monterey Aquarium
The diver had to be a good 30 feet from where I sat in front of the massive kelp forrest tank at the aquarium. The glass behind which she swims wasn't designed with photography specifically in mind. The light was low, the diver and her friends were in constant movement. Technical details as below; to illuminate the diver's face, I employed the dodge tool with Aperture, the program from Apple I use most often use when tweaking my photographs.
Capture Date: Jun 14, 2009 11:44 AM•Views: 364
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Non-Double Exposure Double Exposure
Yes, yes - those pesky reflections. How to keep them out of our photographs when we don't want them. Capture Date: Jun 14, 2009 12:13 PM•Views: 364
Well, there are ways. But why always fight it? The photograph surely tells a story, perhaps one more interesting, than a straight shot of an otter could communicate to the viewer. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Live Otter Fur!
In the wild, I've come close - or close enough - to otters. Never this close, a chance afforded me by the thick plastic separating me from three otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Capture Date: Jun 14, 2009 12:16 PM•Views: 364
The fur of the sea otter is the most dense of any animal in the world. Its fur can contain up to almost one million strands per inch. The fur is made up of longer waterproof guard hairs and a shorter underfur. The longer hairs keep the dense underfur dry. That combination keeps cold sea water away from the skin of an otter. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Ready for her Close-upCapture Date: Jun 14, 2009 12:14 PM•Views: 366No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Closer than Close
Over the years I've been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium several times. While I've come close to the otters in the aquarium, I've never come closer than this, and this time the light was even and the window almost clear of water droplets (I cloned out a few). The otter even opened it eyes for me, just long enough for one photograph; in an eye blink, the lid was down again and it stayed down.
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Wet PelicanViews: 371No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Pelican, Monterey
The morning was wet and drizzly, the pelican not especially cooperative - not to me, anyway. It was simply time to turn the negatives into plusses, or at least stop fretting over what I could not change. Thus I concentrated on the non-standard shape of the bird, and made my photograph from a non-standard point of view. Then, after the photograph was in my computer, I drained the color from the image,
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Taking Flight
Inspired by participant Bruce Bisenz.
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Seagull, Monterey, CaliforniaViews: 365No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Garden of Memories Cemetery, Salinas
Looking down at this little headstone, or even photographing it at eye level would have meant including a fair amount of distracting details. Looking up at the market allowed me to remove most of the clutter. I cloned out a few tree branches, replacing them with the sky.
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Along the Backroads of the Salinas ValleyViews: 363No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Pier Pilings, Sea StarCapture Date: Jun 13, 2009 09:14 AM•Views: 363No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Pilings and Reflections, Monterey
While my camera was set for vivid jpegs, I made no color manipulation with my computer, once the photograph was out of my camera. The colors, intense colors, were there for those who made an effort to look for them. A 300mm lens helped pull the colors within reach.
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