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2013-05-21 22:12:11 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 82 +1s)

Hi there! I guess this is my intro to the LE community.  :-)
I have been shooting for a while -- my dad taught me how to shoot star tracks on a Minolta when I was in grade school. But just this past year or so have I been really into LE. Come to think of it, that is also partly due to my dad, who bought me an ND400 filter for Christmas (well, it was on my Amazon wishlist).   ;-)
I live in Portland, and love getting shots of the waterfront. There are also some beautiful waterfalls in the area that are great for LE. 
I'm looking forward to seeing some good stuff here!

2013-05-16 00:09:39 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

My most recent post (https://plus.google.com/u/0/110551370921127208518/posts/U5ac1rwpbTj) was my first try at long exposures with my new camera (D7000). Previously I'd used my D70s pretty extensively taking long exposures, and never noticed any hot pixels. But now, whoa! What the heck are all those little white dots? (You can even see them by looking closely at the jpg I posted, especially noticeable in the darker upper left corner.) Newer cameras supposedly have less aggressive noise reduction, in order to preserve detail (don't quote me on this). But they do offer an in-camera solution, "Long Exposure Noise Reduction," which basically means you take your picture (say, a 5 minute exposure), then the camera takes another picture of the same shutter speed, but with the shutter closed ("dark frame"). It then finds the hot pixels in the dark frame and subtracts them from the... more »

2013-05-15 00:02:29 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Last night from the Eastbank Esplanade, between the Hawthorne and Morrison bridges.  Oh.. in Portland!
203 seconds at f/5.6, ISO 200
Sharing with #mytowntuesday  (+My Town Tuesday) curated by +Melanie Kintz and +Jamie Furlong.
#PlusPhotoExtract  
#10000photographers by +Robert SKREINER 
+10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS

2013-05-13 02:31:59 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Some HDR stuff from the Pearl District, Portland.
Honest opinions.. too overcooked? I'm leaning towards yes, but I'm posting it anyway.  :-)  Part of me likes to crank it up, while the angel on my shoulder want to keep it subtle.

Sharing with my favorite hashtag, #MonochromeMonday (+Monochrome Monday) Curated by +Hans Berendsen , +Jerry Johnson , +Steve Barge, +Dominique Hilbert , +David Orr and +Martin Heller

2013-04-22 17:44:26 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

#Portland , from way up on the hill.

I finally spent some time tweaking the AF Fine Tune on the new D7000. Got out some test focus charts and the tripod. I'm happier with the resolution of my pics now. :-)

This is a 3-exposure HDR, no tripod.. I used a chain-link fence as a sort of monopod.

Sharing with #MonochromeMonday (+Monochrome Monday) Curated by +Hans Berendsen , +Jerry Johnson , +Steve Barge, +Dominique Hilbert , +David Orr and +Martin Heller 

2013-04-16 04:29:54 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

A Cloud and Part of First Presbyterian Church

#MonochromeMonday (+Monochrome Monday) Curated by +Hans Berendsen , +Jerry Johnson , +Steve Barge, +Dominique Hilbert , +David Orr and +Martin Heller

2013-04-08 16:17:35 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Anyone know what this flower is called? Someone in my neighborhood has all kinds of cool stuff growing.

2013-04-08 03:14:22 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 24 +1s)

the Rose Quarter, Portland.

2013-04-07 23:27:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Some shots of a FOAF's house in Tucson. Really fun to shoot, great house!
#architecture   #architecturephotography  

2013-04-06 15:11:59 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 27 +1s)

Hi again G+ers! 
After a sort of photo snapping hiatus (well, unless you count Instagram), I am back! The past few months I've been busy framing and hanging some of my pics at a cafe, and I also did my first commissioned shoots (one for a friend's engagement, another for a bar's website). With the dough I got myself a D7000, and here is my first post as a result of that purchase.
Taken from the Burnside Bridge two nights ago.

2013-01-16 17:46:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Hey jammers!
This is a recording of me jamming with some friends last week. I recently upgraded some guitar pedals, furthering my Trey worship quest.... :-)
It starts slow, so feel free to skip the first 5 minutes if you just want the best parts.
(Moderators -- let me know if this community isn't meant for this kind of post.. ;))

2012-11-07 06:46:59 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Yay -- my Instagram web profile is up

2012-09-28 06:05:26 (19 comments, 0 reshares, 24 +1s)

They're not called sneaker waves because they soak your sneakers. Though they'll do that.

This 6-second exposure was sort of a test shot. The one after this was set to be 15 seconds, but halfway through that one, the tide decided to come in all at once. I grabbed my tripod (and my soaked camera bag, which almost got washed away) and ran, adrenaline pumping. Don't mess with that ocean!

Even though it's exaggerating, I'm sharing this for #DamnNearDiedThursday  by +Dan Ballard.  
Also #LongExposureThursday  by +Le Quoc and +Francesco Gola.  
Also, why not #MFLensesFriday  by +Michael Zieschang and +Michiel Valk. Used my current favorite lens, the 24mm 2.8 AI-S, AKA the "sexy MF."

2012-09-21 04:28:28 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Yes..another "color or bw?" post.  :-)   
I think I'm leaning toward the desaturated one, but the colorful one has, well, that color that's drawing me in. Any strong opinions either way?

A slightly early share for #FloralFriday  (curated by +Tamara Pruessner)

2012-09-19 18:15:51 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 25 +1s)

What happens to a heart when the tide rolls in, waves crash and pull, and the sand underneath starts to give way? Does it change shape, get dragged to sea in pieces, or hold steady?
There will always be more rocks.. and more reshaping to do.

My contribution to #lovewednesday  (curated by +Pierluigi Failla +Love Wednesday.) 

I carried a couple of bags of rocks (seen in my previous post) to the shore, and +sarah sanderling helped me shape the heart... I love her.

2012-09-18 16:27:29 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

It amazes me how the ocean and wind create this land- and cloud-scape.

Sharing for #TreeTuesday  curated by +Christina Lawrie +Shannon S. Myers +Tree Tuesday 
+Landscape Photography 
#plusphotoextract  

2012-09-17 16:24:10 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I've been using Instagram lately, for my off-the-cuff (i.e. from my smartphone) shots. Follow me and I'll follow you back!  username: dsanderling
[sorry for gettin' spammy btw -- I'll never do it again!!]

2012-09-17 05:06:19 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

A lovely trip to the Oregon Coast this weekend, with the family and a couple of friends... all of whom were patient with my shutterbuggery. 
After a sneaker wave nearly washed away my camera bag (not to mention my tripod and camera), I paid respect to the incoming tide and stayed up in the driftwood.
This one was shot with the trusty Hoya R72 Infrared filter, and processed and toned in Silver Efex Pro.

Sharing with  #monochromemonday  (curated by +Jerry Johnson et al), and +Landscape Photography  (by +Margaret Tompkins).
#plusphotoextract  

2012-09-04 06:05:44 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Another fun walk with some of my coworkers.
I guess I went all B&W this time!

2012-08-17 16:14:01 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

Crater Lake, Oregon

Sharing for #InfraredFriday , curated by +Paula Cobleigh and +Ingo Schobert.

2012-08-14 07:16:37 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Chevron Refinery Fire, 8/7/2012

taken from +Andrew Mann's house.

Sharing for #transportTuesday (curated by +Gene Bowker) -- because where would transport be without Chevron?   :P
and #TonemapHDRTuesday (by +Drew Pion and +Stephanie Suratos)..

2012-08-12 19:29:50 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 29 +1s)

Ups and Downs

Just got back from vacation.  Here's a shot for #transport&communicationSunday (curated by +Juan Muntaner).    

More to come from my trip, as soon as I can process them!

2012-07-25 19:57:12 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Hey guys.. My band (Gimme a Beer) played at a party last weekend, and I managed to get a mediocre recording of it. Here are some of the songs, if you're interested!  (The volume's a little low.. you might have to crank it.. never hurts!  ;))
Cissy Strut (Gimme A Beer) (5-minute funk tune)
Back in the Basement (Gimme a Beer) (8+ minute jam that gets out there a little)
Song for My Father (Gimme a Beer) (a mellow 5-minute jazz standard)
Good Times (Gimme a Beer) (a 12+ minute jam with a full-on space section)

2012-07-23 23:53:10 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

A coworker and I were lamenting the fact that neither of us had had a chance to shoot much lately, when we got the bright idea to organize a lunchtime photowalk. There are enough photo geeks in our office that we had instant critical mass (5 for the first turnout, but there will be more). Here are my results!

2012-07-06 13:42:57 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

Mt. Hood
taken from Willamette Natl Cemetery
It was July 4, and I had a rare few hours to myself after dropping my daughter off at summer school. Naturally, I grabbed the camera.

for #forestFriday  +Forest Friday by +Rudolf Vlček 
and #breakfastclub  +Breakfast Club by +Gemma Costa and +Andrea Martinez 

2012-06-28 05:43:55 (19 comments, 0 reshares, 43 +1s)

Silver Falls, Oregon

It's still #WaterfallWednesday  (curated by +Eric Leslie) on this coast!

2012-06-22 05:16:32 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 27 +1s)

up

World Trade Center, Portland.

This was a handheld HDR (3 exposures) that I took on Father's Day, when the 3 of us were wandering around downtown after a delicious breakfast. (I had a lox bagel -- yum.)
I'm sure that a lot of people would find this (and a lot of my pics) to be overprocessed. But... I can't help it.  I don't want to use digital darkroom tricks as a crutch, but maybe that's just my style right now. It's hard not to have thoughts like, "maybe it's time I move on from these building shots, and learn how to photograph people."  I dunno, maybe it doesn't matter.

2012-06-20 14:34:30 (14 comments, 3 reshares, 36 +1s)

Take a look to the sky just before you die
It's the last time you will

for #bwlandscapewednesday  curated by +Francesco Gallarotti 

2012-06-18 16:22:24 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

Return to Foundation

I've always been pulled in by old sci-fi book covers. I just started re-reading the Foundation trilogy, so my sensorium is putting a retro-future edge on much of what I see. When I walked by this building downtown yesterday, I knew exactly what I wanted the final product to look like.

Do you find that what you're reading/watching changes the photos you take, or how you process them?

2012-06-11 16:10:17 (29 comments, 16 reshares, 83 +1s)

69 Seconds of Portland

sharing for +Monochrome Monday  #monochromemonday  by +Charles Lupica +Hans Berendsen +Jerry Johnson +Manuel Votta and +Steve Barge 
#plusphotoextract  

2012-06-10 05:23:16 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 39 +1s)

me loveys.

for #sunsetsaturday , curated by +Dennis Hoffbuhr.

2012-06-06 06:01:41 (11 comments, 4 reshares, 43 +1s)

Hey friends...
I feel like I haven't had as much time to post lately.. (new job, etc..) but I did get a chance to go out and do some IR stuff last week. I haven't had the best luck doing false color stuff, but here's the best I can do so far.
Thanks for looking!

2012-05-26 21:38:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

For all the black and white lovers.. Right i am off for a cold shower, then its cold beer and feet up before bed... Have a nice evening folks..
#landscape #blackandwhitephotography

2012-05-26 21:15:28 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 26 +1s)

Where to?

for #SepiaSaturday , curated by +Renee Stewart Jackson
#critiquepls

2012-05-23 05:15:54 (18 comments, 2 reshares, 43 +1s)

The light from sunsets on the beach is... just wicked.

I think the footprints here are my daughter's, and I recall my wife's voice: "Honey, wait til daddy takes his picture to run around there!"

submitting to #WaterscapeWednesday curated by +Terrill Welch
#plusphotoextract

2012-05-18 15:41:20 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 49 +1s)

Mothers Day

This photo was taken just moments before the one I posted yesterday (https://plus.google.com/u/0/110551370921127208518/posts/NXtdoN7c8Ax), but obviously with very different processing. Here I used an infrared filter (Hoya R72) and only one exposure (as opposed to 5 for the other). According to the EXIF data, this was a 130-second exposure, but to be honest I can't remember! The sunset had me in a trance.

Thanks to my lovely +sarah sanderling for being patient with me on this trip, letting me shoot photos on Mothers Day, not complaining when I pulled over at random viewpoints, etc. :-x

#InfraredFriday by +Paula Cobleigh and +Ingo Schobert
#plusphotoextract

2012-05-17 16:44:55 (20 comments, 7 reshares, 59 +1s)

The only constant...

This past weekend, we rented a condo in Waldport, Oregon, within walking distance of this very log. The winds were constantly changing the landmarks on the beach. Footprints barely lasted long enough to walk to the water and back, and forget about recognizing the log you sat on the day before.
We were lucky to be there on a beautiful (but windy) weekend, and the beach inspired us to fill our own backyard sandbox upon our return to the city.

#travelthursday by +Laura Mitchum
#plusphotoextract by +Jarek Klimek

2012-05-12 23:03:03 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

I was featured in Circle Count's "Cream of the Crop" for 5/12! w00t..thank you +Nils Tschampel ..

2012-05-11 06:55:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Announcement: The Black & White Circle

Come Monday, I'll share my validated and revised Black & White Circle (BWC) with excellent photographers that produce great monochrome images. You don't want to miss that one.

If YOU want to hop on the B&W train, do the following:

1. Help spread the word and reshare this post. Why? If you think you should be promoted, you should be willing to do the same for your fellow photographers.

2. Ask for inclusion in the comments.

3. Make sure that you share your own original B&W photography in your feed. If there are too many reshares of other peoples' work, irrelevant YouTube clips, animated GIFS, blog post teasers etc., I might not add you to the circle. The BWC is a validated quality circle that should bring people... more »

2012-05-11 06:40:55 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 37 +1s)

One more of Wells Fargo Center, downtown Portland.

I have a few more minutes to squeeze this into #longexposurethursday (by +Le Quoc and +Francesco Gola).
#bwFineartLE by the amazing +Joel Tjintjelaar

2012-05-11 05:19:08 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

Onward and Upward
I've been a bit out of the loop lately.. Job hunting (I start my new one next week), getting all my pics and software off my old laptop, buying a new laptop, and getting all the software onto the new one... phew! Anyway, here's the first pic processed on the new laptop, taken yesterday.
A few minutes before this, I was standing right at the base of the building (like, my tripod was literally straddling one of those buttresses), when a security guard asked me to back off. (He was polite.. more so than the VA rent-a-cops from last time. ;))
This is Wells Fargo Center, tallest building in Portland. (not the location of my new job, btw!)

I'm not sure about that tree... Do you think it ruins an otherwise minimalist composition? Or is it ok?
#btlcritique

2012-05-01 17:19:14 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 24 +1s)

Metropolis

Portland's second tallest building, Big Pink. (edit: oops! not the tallest!)
for #MyTownTuesday by +Melanie Kintz and +Jamie Furlong.
#critiquepls

2012-04-30 19:26:15 (20 comments, 1 reshares, 32 +1s)

I was all by myself in this long sky bridge, Saturday night.

#monochromemonday by +Charles Lupica +Hans Berendsen +Jerry Johnson +Manuel Votta
#multipleexposuremonday by +Karen Tate
#critiquepls

2012-04-30 18:07:02 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

The other night I went up the hill to OHSU to shoot a building whose architecture I'd been admiring for a while. The minute I set up my tripod, 2 cops descended on me from 2 directions, saying that photography wasn't allowed at the VA hospital. Boo! So, I walked across the sky bridge to OHSU (a much more public-friendly place) and shot some stuff like this. The red thing is the terminus of the tram that goes down the hill.

6 exposures cooked in Nik's HDR Efex Pro. Also a few GIMP and LR tweaks.
Sharing for #multipleexposuremonday by +Karen Tate.

#critiquepls -- criticism welcome!

2012-04-28 00:36:18 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 19 +1s)

This totally reminds me of Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors. FEED ME!

Since my earlier #FloralFriday contribution was only partially floral, here is a totally floral one. My wife says the tulips are only going to last a couple more days, so I gotta take advantage.

#floralfriday curated by the awesome +Tamara Pruessner

2012-04-27 23:32:55 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 26 +1s)

+Tamara Pruessner, do falling cherry blossoms count for #FloralFriday ? :-)

2012-04-27 05:25:18 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 27 +1s)

Wow, there are some really great images in the #infraredFriday feed! Thanks to +Paula Cobleigh for curating (and for some really amazing submissions herself).

Here is my submission, from a hike along Multnomah Creek two days ago. I used my trusty Hoya R72 filter.

#critiquepls

2012-04-26 00:18:28 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 25 +1s)

Fairy Falls

One more from our Columbia Gorge hike yesterday, for #WaterfallWednesday by +Eric Leslie.
#critiquepls -- all criticism welcome!

2012-04-25 22:28:53 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

**Portland Timelapse**
Well, once again, I've been ridiculously obsessed with a project that's cut me off from communication, but I'm happy to say I'm done and a new Portland time-lapse video is online to enjoy from the effort!
308,872 photos shot in this project!
Check it out:
https://vimeo.com/41011190

2012-04-25 20:15:14 (24 comments, 3 reshares, 34 +1s)

Yesterday I went hiking in the Columbia River Gorge with my good friend (and local pro photographer) Paul Tweten. The hike was a little gruelling for out-of-shape me, but I had a blast taking pictures with him, and got some great tips from him. Not to mention, he grew up around here, and knows all about edible wild plants.. We could've made a gigantic salad out of all the cool stuff we found and munched on.

I think this one is called Weisendanger Falls. This same water falls down Multnomah Falls, a little ways down the creek.

Sharing for #waterfallwednesday (+Eric Leslie).
#critiquepls -- all criticism welcome!