October, 2009

West 39th and a Colorized Sunset

Submitted by Eric on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 04:00
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Shutter Speed: variedq | Aperture: f/9 | Focal Length: 16 mm | ISO: 50

West 39th Street, Midtown KCMO a week or two back. Around this time of year the sunsets are aligned with the street's westward terminal view.

These kind of photos will emote different people in different ways - the extremes of which will either get giddy from the colorfulness owing to the evenly distributed shadows and highlights, while the others will not understand what "high dynamic range" even is yet will ramble incoherent screeds as to why it's an abomination to everything sacred in the universe. That's how it is and I don't feel like sugar-coating the explanation.

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Prospero's of 39th

Submitted by Eric on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 11:00
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Shutter Speed: varied | Aperture: f/9.0 | Focal Length: 16 mm | ISO: 200

A bit of the storefront of the popular establishment Prospero's Books on West 39th, KCMO, and a sunset from a couple weeks back and my own moderate editing embellishment.

Today it's kind of chilly and cloudy, which I love, and will be out at the Ren Fest for a bit for pictures as my dad's bagpipe band performs this afternoon. I've also added a second monitor to my "Big Computer" rig, so this is all quite visual and fun, and I'm looking forward to editing some new pictures with this arrangement later today.

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Life of the Ren Fest

Submitted by Eric on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 04:00
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Shutter Speed: 1/1000 sec. | Aperture: f/8.0 | Focal Length: 85 mm | ISO: 160

A nice looking scene from the Renaissance Fest on Saturday afternoon. I'm wishing I shot this with a far wider aperture so the background would be more blurred and our dancing subject more accentuated, but even with a low ISO and moderately narrow aperture the shutter was still awfully quick given the sun poking out.

It was also the first in awhile I've actually made use of my 85 mm f/1.8 Canon lens - an awesome piece of glass that I've probably neglected as of late.

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Ren Fest Pt. 2

Submitted by Eric on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 04:00
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Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec. | Aperture: f/10 | Focal Length: 16 mm | ISO: 250

Some ale and a big feather thing. I don't know what it's all about but it I like the idea nonetheless. I had taken a few miscellaneous pictures at the Renaissance Festival on Saturday prior to photographing my dad's bagpipe band marching through and performing.

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Connubial Bliss with HDR

Submitted by Eric on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 04:00
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Shutter Speed: varied | Aperture: f/22 | Focal Length: 16 mm | ISO: 320

I've been doing a bit of assistance for an acquaintance of mine, Laura Kackley, who's quite a wedding photographer.

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Bagpiping...

Submitted by Eric on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 04:00
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Shutter Speed: 1/400 | Aperture: f/6.3 | Focal Length: 130 mm | ISO: 160

My dad playing the bagpipes last weekend out at the Renaissance Festival with his band Tullintrain West. Charlie Bowers, also being of some fame and occasional local television interest for being the Metro bus driver who occasionally plays the pipes on his layovers from piloting the bus.

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Something downtown

Submitted by Eric on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 04:00
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Shutter Speed: 13 sec | Aperture: f/9.0 | Focal Length: 45 mm | ISO: 640 mm

Something downtown... and looking back at this I'll caption it as being fun to distort light and thought (one and the same) to bend reality's perception.

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SIDS Walk

Submitted by Eric on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 13:18
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Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec | Aperture: f/9.0 | Focal Length: 285 mm | ISO: 320

I took a few photos last Sunday morning at a SIDS fundraiser and walk along Brush Creek on the Plaza for my boss and his wife who lost their infant son, Bobby, to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome back in early 2007. Some of the group here is walking under the pedestrian bridge, with the "Poets Apartments" to the West kind of magnified due to the telephoto lens.

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The Scarritt Arcade

Submitted by Eric on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 04:00
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Shutter Speed: varied | Aperture: f/22 | Focal Length: 16 mm | ISO: 200

I was invited to take some interior architecture shots at the Scarritt Arcade at 8th and Walnut, downtown KCMO. I took THIS exterior photo of the building back in late August (the four story building). The building was built in 1907, renovated in 1985, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On a personal note, I discovered that my alive-and-kicking 90 year old maternal grandmother worked in an office at the Scarritt property for quite some time back in the old days when she lived in downtown KCMO.

*photo taken Wed. 10/14/2009*

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The Scarritt Arcade Pt. 2

Submitted by Eric on Fri, 10/16/2009 - 04:00
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Shutter Speed: varied | Aperture: f/9.0 | Focal Length: 15 mm | ISO: 50

Another scene from the Scarritt Arcade's ornate interior, this time with my fisheye lens affixed to my 5D. As noted yesterday, it's a historic property dating to 1907, and restored in 1985 at 8th and Walnut in downtown Kansas City Missouri.

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