Hotel Monte Carlo, Las Vegas. Shot with Nikon D90 and Nikon 18-200mm VR lens without a tripod. I added a ‘high key’ filter to enhance the lighting.
Tag: Summer
Harley Davidson Cafe, Las Vegas
This Harley Davidson sign with bright red, white colors was very interesting. In reality the colors came out slightly different than what I saw them there. I didn’t bother playing with the white balance settings later. Shot with Nikon D90 with Nikon 18-200 VR lens without a tripod.
Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas
Planet Hollywood and Paris. Two iconic hotels in Las Vegas in all their night glory. Shot with Nikon D90 without a tripod. The newer digital cameras are getting very good at high-ISO performance that you don’t need to carry a tripod for a decent photo. I have done some post processing to remove noise and boost contrast.
Aria Hotel, Las Vegas
I took this photo from the top floor of Polo Towers which is right opposite to Aria Hotel in late afternoon on a bright summer day. You can see the reflection of other buildings in the glass surface of the Aria and Mandarin Oriental and other hotels in the area.
Noon, Las Vegas
A visit to Las Vegas right in the middle of summer. At noon, streets are deserted (it’s too hot outside). I liked this scene with the color scheme of construction barriers, black/grey asphalt road and McDonald’s and Circus Circus Hotel in the background with blue skys.
Northwest Forest
Northwest Forest. This is a post-processed photo, to increase dynamic range called high dynamic range (HDR). Human eye can see approximately 20-24 F-stops worth of light intensity variation while most digital cameras can only capture 8-10 F-stops. What it means is what we see in a real scene can never be captured on a digital photo as it is. But with computers we can combine multiple images captured at various settings (called bracketing) and increase the dynamic range. This technique is most useful when shooting a subject with bright background like sky, snow, beach. In a normal photo, you either get a very bright overexposed sky and properly exposed object or very dark object and properly exposed sky, but never both. HDR image can depict both objects properly exposed by combining these two (or even more exposures). Notice in this photo that I’m pointing the camera directly at the sun, but still the tree barks, leaves etc. in the foreground are properly exposed. In a normal photo you would see them completely black in such case. Table Rock Trail (near Molalla, OR), Summer 2010.
Rose
A rose drenched in rain. Summer 2002. Shot with Nikon Coolpix 4500 point-and-shoot camera.