Posts under ‘Photo Essay’

The image gallery from our London trip has been posted to Zenfolio. Here is a slideshow: Images are available for purchase.

Just returned from a little photo safari to Paris and London. Here’s a slideshow of the Paris shots. Will add London shortly. The slideshow contains links to my gallery where you can order photos if you like.

It’s the new year and it’s Renaissance Festival time in South Florida! This year the Florida Renaissance Festival is taking place in two venues: first (and running through this weekend) is at Historic Virginia Key Park in Key Biscayne, FL and then next month at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach, FL. The Renfest is [...]

The National Association of Hispanic Public Administrators (NAHPA) is sponsoring an art exhibit in the lobby of the Stephen P. Clarke Center in downtown Miami. The gallery features the work of many local Hispanic artists as part Hispanic Heritage Month and runs through October 30th. I have the following three photos on display there: And [...]

This shot was taken from the balcony of my friend’s condo on the 29th floor. Shot handheld using my Nikon D700 and Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 zoom in 12-bit NEF and processed using Apple Aperture 2.1.3. This condo happens to be the tallest building in Miami Beach with total of 48 stories right on the beach. [...]

With Olympus finally letting the micro four-thirds cat out of the bag, has the Next Digital Age finally dawned? You’re probably thinking “What has Carlos been smoking and can he send me a couple of pounds?” All I ask is that you hear me out for a second. Let’s take a critical look at the [...]

OK, I’ve posted about my “Cool Rides” gallery on flickr before. Snazzy cars, bikes and other methods of transportation the strike my fancy (as my British friends would say) are the usual subjects. However, today I came across a press release of something so off-the-wall I had to add it. The World’s Coolest Looking Riding [...]

Infrared Pine Originally uploaded by etrigan63 I think I finally nailed the B&W conversions for IR. Sky has the right level of darkness and the Australian Pine is giving off a fine IR reflection. Please comment if you wish.

Infrared Skies Originally uploaded by etrigan63 Second in my IR attempts, this one came a little better as a B&W image. Photo was shot RAW and converted to grayscale using the channel controls in Lightroom. Something interesting to note is that light colored objects are reflecting IR light while dark objects are absorbing them.

Infrared palms Originally uploaded by etrigan63 When Leica designed the M8 they elected to install an extremely thin anti-aliasing (AA) filter over the sensor to increase the overall sharpness of the images captured by the camera. However, this had the side-effect of making the M8 sensitive to IR reflections. This manifested itself in certain dark [...]