Zak's all wet

Zak reallly loves his pool on when the temp gets into the nineties!

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Day 2

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Zacharie was up at 5 AM this morning....

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Jan Armor
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8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
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Zacky

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Slept till almost 7. Having breakfast, and shared his Cherrios with me. And smelled Kathy's flowers. We're teaching him Oh La La....
Jan Armor
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8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

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Snug Harbor Parade

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Anything goes, anyone can march, water fighting firemen, yahooo. What a parade!!! Happy Fourth!!!!
Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

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Fireworks

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As if on cue, Mother Nature provided a spectacular show of fireworks of her own last night. Kathy and I watched the sky turned to fire. And if that wasn't enough, the Swan family glided silently by in the fading last light. Wow!!! Happy 4th of July!!!
Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

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Watrerfire Safari, Providence, RI

Do you remember your Greek mythology????

Here Charon ferries a boatload of deceased mortals across the River Styx into Hades during Waterfire, Providence.

Setting the camera at 0.8 sec at F/32 produced this blur. ISO 400. Tweaked a bit in Lightroom.

Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
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Sparks, Waterfire Safari, Providence

Here's one with an extended exposure... ISO 1000, 1 and 1/2 seconds at f/9. I like to switch from wide open to stop down using aperture preferred so I get one relatively fast shutter speed, and one slow one. The fast shutter speed shot here was a throwaway. The extended exposure rendering of the sparks make this one kind of interesting.
Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
click on "recent photographs" to see them

The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
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Sparks, Waterfire Safari, Providence

Here's one with an extended exposure... ISO 1000, 1 and 1/2 seconds at f/9. I like to switch from wide open to stop down using aperture preferred so I get one relatively fast shutter speed, and one slow one. The fast shutter speed shot here was a throwaway. The extended exposure rendering of the sparks make this one kind of interesting.
Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
click on "recent photographs" to see them

The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
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Noise at ISO 800

NOISE...Sometimes I hate it, sometimes I love it. I think it works pretty well here, turning the (4 seconds at f/7, hand-held) over saturated, noisy exposure into a George Seurat-like pointillistic masterpiece. Hoho... I wish.

This Waterfire safari has given me many images I never would have taken, and plenty of stuff to work on in the days to come. I've received some good suggestions from a few of you. I'll share condensed group comments on the our Waterfire Safari in another email. I think there's lots of room for improvement.

BTW, I am sending selected images to Waterfire HQ very soon. Get yours posted please.

Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
click on "recent photographs" to see them

The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
http://janthephotoman.posterous.com/

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Noise at ISO 800

NOISE...Sometimes I hate it, sometimes I love it. I think it works pretty well here, turning the (4 seconds at f/7, hand-held) over saturated, noisy exposure into a George Seurat-like pointillistic masterpiece. Hoho... I wish.

This Waterfire safari has given me many images I never would have taken, and plenty of stuff to work on in the days to come. I've received some good suggestions from a few of you. I'll share condensed group comments on the our Waterfire Safari in another email. I think there's lots of room for improvement.

BTW, I am sending selected images to Waterfire HQ very soon. Get yours posted please.

Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
click on "recent photographs" to see them

The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
http://janthephotoman.posterous.com/

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Feeding the fires at Waterfire in Providence, RI

Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
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The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
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Waterfire people by Jan The Photo Man

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Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
click on "recent photographs" to see them

The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
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The Waterfire Scene

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The Balloon Man is an HDR from a single image. The (slightly blurry) Gargoyle is pure Lightroom.
Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
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The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
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Gondola, Waterfire, Providence.RI

Here's one from our Waterfire Safari, last Sat. night.
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Gondola, Waterfire, Providence.RI

Here's one from our Waterfire Safari, last Sat. night.
Comments, please.

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Impressions -- Waterfire Providence

Here's one from last night.Lots of motion blurs. Most deleted, but a few seemed to be worth saving This one shot from the feeder boat. The fire looks almost posterized.

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The email address to post iyour images here s post@waterfire.posterous.com

Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
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The tidal pool

We did the annual tidal pool trip the other day. For my son it is a must. For the grandkids it is a high point of their visit to RI. Here's Claire bear holding a Fiddler Crab, up close and personal.

Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
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The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
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Lightroom 3.0

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Lighroom's new "manual" feature in the "Lens Correction" panel is similar to Photoshop's lens distortion filter, only better.

Since I do a fair amount of architectural photography using my Nikon 18-200 mm lens, with it's inherent distortion, and since I often have to tilt the camera up and down, introducing keystone distortions as well, I was always round tripping into Photshop to correct these effects. Not anymore. After enabling the appropriate profile correction for my lens (a blessing in LR 3) I switch to the "manual" setting to get rid of keystoning, and finally I "constrain the crop". Wow, everything is done right here in Lightroom. If I chose not to constrain the crop I can go into Photoshop and paint in missing edges with the clone tool. This is my old 4x5 view camera on steroids!

I can also purposely introduce fisheye or stretching by going a little crazy with these sliders, as done here on my friendly swan.

This new "manual" feature is a great addition in Lightroom 3, and a real timesaver.

Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
click on "recent photographs" to see them

The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
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summer

A lazy summer evening on Indian Lake. I wondered how many times this timeless scene has repeated over the years.

Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
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The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
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St John's Cathedral

Built in 1810 with Mrs. Brown's millions, this church on North Main in Providence is an architectureal gem, and on the "Ten Most Endangered" list per Providence Preservation Society. Here a detail of the ceiling crescent from which the Waterford chandelier dangles olve rthe main aisle.
Jan Armor
janthephotoman@gmail.com
8 Indian Trail North
Wakefield, RI 02879
401.783.8232

The Website........................
http://www.armorphoto.com
click on "recent photographs" to see them

The Blog, a new picture (almost) every day...
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