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Today, pictures from valued commenter ?BillinGlendaleCA.
A few weeks ago I posted pictures from a #streetmeetla photo shoot down in San Pedro. Well, they had another one, this time at San Gabriel Valley Airport in El Monte. The theme was VW’s and airplanes(being that it was at an airport, kinda makes sense). I drove alone since I didn’t hear anything from my colleague, but just after I arrived, he showed up with a model I’d shot a couple of times before. Quite a few photographer brought their own lighting equipment, but being that it was outdoors(and I don’t have any), I just had my cameras. Basically the way this shoot worked it that the models(there were both male and female models) would stand by a plane or a VW and do their thing and the photographers would snap away. I think I got some really good pictures at this shoot. After the shoot I started home and figured I’d stop by Mission San Gabriel since it was close by and the IR pictures I shoot 3 years ago sucked. I headed home from the mission fed and walked my girls and then it was off to The Huntington for their evening strolls for members.
On a personal note:
This will be my second to last regular post here at ‘On The Road’, I had hoped to supplement my income by selling my pictures but I’ve only had 3 sales. I’ll close up BillinGlendale.com next April(I think I’m paid up though then) and get regular employment. I’d like to thank all of you for your kind comments and encouragement. My next and last submission will be a good one, stay tuned.
Taken on 2019-07-28 00:00:00
San Gabriel Valley Airport
I had photographed this model earlier in the shoot sitting in a VW bus. She moved out to where the airplanes were and I took a few more pictures. This picture differs from others in it’s processing. I used a color Lookup Table. Color Lookup Tables(LUT) map the colors in a photo to other colors to give a specific feel to the photo, in this case I used a LUT the mimics Kodachrome film. As Paul Simon noted, it makes all the world a sunny day, and is pretty saturated. It made her skin a bit too saturated so I removed it for the areas where her skin was showing and left it on the rest of the photo.
Taken on 2019-07-28 00:00:00
San Gabriel Valley Airport
This model arrived about half way though the shoot, in fact I saw her arrive when I went to my car for a break. She posed in a green VW Bug. I took this shot though the windshield and the RAW shot had quite a bit of glare, some of which you can still see in the processed photo. While I liked the pose, I almost didn’t even process this shot due to the glare. When I did attempt to process it it(bringing out the full dynamic range and applying haze reduction), I found that the glare added almost a dreamy look to face. She had an abrasion on her right elbow that I removed in Photoshop.
Taken on 2019-07-28 00:00:00
San Gabriel Valley Airport
This model also arrived late in the shoot. She posed with another model next to this airplane and the by herself. You can see the San Gabriel Mountains in the background of this shot. One other photographer posted his shot of this young lady in the #streetmeetla Instagram page and I felt that he smoothed her skin so much that she looked like a robot and it seems to me also lightened her skin tone. His photo as taken in full sun and possibly with additional light(flash), so that might account for it. Skin smoothing us useful, but needs to be used sparingly and you should never remove tats or lighten skin tone.
Taken on 2019-07-28 00:00:00
San Gabriel, CA
Driving from the airfield back to the cave, I decided to stop at Mission San Gabriel since it was only a bit out of the way. I have some of my favorite photos in a slideshow as wallpaper on my PC. The day prior to this shoot an IR photo of the mission came up on my screen and it was awful. I took it 3 years ago when I first visited the mission. Since I had my IR camera and we had some nice clouds in the sky, it made sense to stop by the mission for a re-shoot. This photo was taken at the same spot that I’d taken the shot 3 years earlier. As is my procedure now, I took two shots: one with my IR camera and one with my regular camera. I then combined the two shots(with a lot of processing in the mean time on Photoshop).
Taken on 2019-07-28 00:00:00
The Huntington, San Marino, CA
After my return from the airport and mission, I processed some of my photos and fed and walked my girls. Then it was off to the Huntington for the Evening Stroll. My goal was to attempt to get a good sunset in the Chinese Garden. I spent most of my time between the Chinese and Japanese gardens making sure to be in the Chinese Garden for sunset and the garden’s closing. While the clouds had dissipated from earlier in the day, there were still sufficient cloud cover to provide a colorful sunset. This shot is the combined result of 5 shots taken with exposure bracketing and processed with HDR software.
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