

Painting Beta Bridge (2)
An endless supply of artists keeps Beta Bridge freshly painted. It's usually good for a handful of new photos any day of the week. It only takes a couple of minutes to walk along the bridge, and to find an angle for a photo. The latest paint job does the rest. The paint becomes the photo. An overcast afternoon in July offered these photos. Gear Photos were made with a Nikon D750 paired with a Nikon 24-70 mm f/2.8 E.


Back to Basics in Black and White (3)
In the last post, we saw the local band Mama Tried performing in a small nightclub. An on-camera strobe made color photos possible at low ISO. Without the strobe, the ISO maxed out at 12,800, and the colored stage lights were a nightmare for the white balance. As promised, here are the ambient light photos in black and white, where we eliminate the effect of bad white balance. The photos were made in the range of f/2.0 - f/4.0, with shutter speeds of 1/50 - 1/100, and ISO