Photo 365 - Day 63 (Last Days of Summer Slack)

Day 63 (September 5th, 2010)
Title: Last Days of Summer Slack

We were in Santa Cruz for this Memorial Day weekend and it was a nice chance of pace from the "hustle and bustle" of the city.  The weather was perfect and so was the company.  We went and hung out a the beach for a bit, watched the boats and generally got some good End of The Summer slacking in! 


I got this particular photo with my 28-135 lens (f/14 at 1/400th).  I really liked the clear blue sky, all the boats (there are tons of them - just look at the horizon!), and the folks just relaxing.  There were also dolphins playing in the water, but I was unable to shoot them (they are fast and too small to get with this lens).  I thought about cropping the left side a bit, to remove that other group of people (as well as that one sailboat), but then I kind of isolated the main group as well as removing a nice anchor-point of the photo. 


Enjoy!

Photo 365 - Day 39 (Half Moon Bay)

Day 39 (August 11th, 2010)
Title: Half Moon Bay


My first attempt at a landscape with a uber-small aperture (f/45).  There are a few problem with it, but nothing that I would consider a "deal-breaker" (aka: delete and pretend I never took it).  First, I wish I had a tripod when I took it, I shot it hand-held using a 70-300mm lens.  It might have made is a bit less blurry with a tripod so I could have stepped down the shutter speed (1/60).  Second, (in conjunction with the first), I should have upped the ISO to something like 200-400 to reduce the blur (it was at 100 to lower the graininess).  Still, lessons for next time!  Tripod, Tripod, Tripod!