Author: -N-

One Bright, Sunny Morning at Mugu Rock

Although I have lived along the California coast most of my life, I don’t really get out to see it often.  I am not sure why.  However, my friend, The Nikon Hit Man, knows the coast well – he has been fishing it for many years.  We decided to do a photoshoot, but the fact is, it really was more of a time to just hang out together and chat about photography.

Below Mugu Rock 4 - Prelim (1 of 1)

Overall, the day was a bust for pictures as the sun was not with us – getting to the beach in the later morning is not conducive to the best photographic light.  This is when the miracle – or curse – of post-processing comes in.  These were taken around Mugu Rock, which sits on the coastline along the Pacific Coast Highway, north of Malibu, south of Oxnard.  If you have been in the area, you cannot miss it.  The best part of all were the big waves, remnants of a hurricane somewhere in the Pacific.

Below Mugu Rock 3 (1 of 1)

Drab pictures can be made more interesting, naturally, or pushed to extremes for drama and (artistic?) impact.

Below Mugu Rock 4 - Final HDR

I’ll leave you to choose . . .

Garden Steps at Dusk

Garden Steps at Dusk

I wanted an old photographic quality here – Kodachrome in Alien Skin proved to be good. A few more mods afterward. I like the glow in the windows at the top – it was pretty hard to balance the steps and the lights when shooting in low light – this is iso 6400, f3.2, 1/125.  The light is rather – really quite very – noisy – but the steps turned out ok.  I suppose I could have done more to get rid of the noise but . . . .