Airshow by accident

Over the weekend we decided to take visiting relatives to Ghirardelli's Chocolate factory. It was my first driving experiment after surgery.

One mistake.. there was an air show in the city around the Pier area and that meant there was no way to anywhere near the Chocolate factory. After driving around for an hour and realizing there was no way to park anywhere close by, not to mention the "pee pee" calls from the kids, we had to make a hasty retreat back out of the pier area.

Luckily when we stopped almost close to the freeway entrance, the planes were still circling around and the camera was in the trunk!

Quickly mounted the 70-200 and clicked a few shots from the sidewalk. The wife was surprised by my impulsiveness but when we came home and she saw the photos, her jaw dropped..

"How did you take that one?" she asked.

Told her that support in buying the 70-200mm is much appreciated. When she realized that she was the proud financier of such worthy equipment, she was beaming!

Next year, we are going to the airshow and parking ourselves at a vantage location for photograph session!

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The kids in HDR..

Human subjects are difficult to do HDR using bracketed images(the overall Google opinion seems to be that). Most Human subject HDR images are from tone mapping with single images.

This was an attempt to do bracketed images using high ISO and lower f numbers but have the shutter speeds still short enough to pull off three shots in rapid succession before the kids moved..

We are almost there..

Thanks to my wonderful subjects who pulled in a deep breath then let it go and off we went

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These days the weekends seem to fly! Well we still have another day to ourselves...

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Playing with HDR on a saturday morning

That passes for a break from work and relaxation..

Morning Yoga, tea, then HDR photo tricks in kitchen..

Seriously thinking of buying this Photomatix thing

Planning to spend the afternoon trying to taking more pictures. Need a break from the routine.. badly!

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Image compression ...

Old Image from previous post which was larger size (3051 pixel width) and sharpened in Canon DPP to +7

New image reduced to 1280 pixel width and sharpened in Canon DPP only to +3 before uploading..

I Stand corrected.. no difference in compression! Apologies to Google..

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Pretty formals

We attended a baby shower today and the girls decided to dress up for the event. Not missing an opportunity, we did another photo shoot in the backyard and they were at their posing best!

Lets see if these come out okay in blogger.. The originals uploaded were already reduced size images so there is not compressing involved!

It is always a joy (painful joy when they are doing monkey poses, but joy nevertheless) to take pictures of the girls!

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