A bargain for your love.
G1, kit lens @ 17mm.
Wonderful faces, spotted opposite the Federal Reserve in San Francisco whose denizens have yet to figure out the difference between the big and little hands on their wrists.
Trolley Bus Flowers
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In the Ferry Building
A sterile place.
While there’s no denying the magnificent job done by the City of San Francisco in rebuilding the old Ferry Building on the Embarcadero, the result is curiously sterile and uninviting.
The lower level is a food hall with few places to sit with that awful chi chi feel of inauthenticity. You know, places selling ‘artisan cheeses’, ‘hand pressed olive oil’ and ‘gourmet caviar’. Please. A haven, in other words, for those who cannot distinguish price from quality. At least some of the sales clerks are pretty.
G1, kit lens @ 17mm, ISO 800
Segue to the upper level, shown below, which seems comprised solely of offices for the least productive (also known as lawyers) and the feeling of sterility is even greater. People are rarely seen, there are no plaques on the doors, no hustle and bustle. No life. I suppose someone works there but it’s hard to tell. At least the natural lighting is great.
G1, kit lens @ 17mm, ISO 800
The G1’s smallish sensor holds up nicely at ISO 800 here, as long as you don’t underexpose. Proper exposure really helps to keep the noise down and a 13″ x 19″ print is just fine. The color rendering is just lovely in this muted light.
Eye-One Display 2 colorimeter update
A fresh calibration.
It’s been a month since I first calibrated my two Dell 2209WA displays using the X-Rite Eye-One Display Two colorimeter and the Eye One software just reminded me to redo the calibration. I had set it to remind me in one month.
As usual I do this by near-noon daylight in my brightly lit office with no incandescent or fluorescent light sources. Time taken was 15 minutes per monitor.
Interestingly, both monitors were new when first profiled and have shown considerable drift. As before I am profiling for a screen brightness of 140 cd/m2 , a bit brighter than the recommended 120 cd/m2. That works for me in a bright ambient light setting.
Here are the original and revised settings – brightness had shifted little:
Monitor settings a month earlier and now.
The Blue drift in the right hand monitor is especially noticeable.
I’ll check back in a month to see if things have settled down. The only change from the initial calibration is that I have migrated to version 10.6.2 of Snow Leopard from 10.6.1.
Old and new
Contrasts.
The contrasts between old and new architecture have always fascinated me, never more so than in America’s great cities.
New York, 1988. M3, 50mm Summicron, Kodachrome
San Francisco, 2009. G1, kit lens.
San Francisco, 2009. G1, kit lens.
Think Pink!
Quite Shocking, really.
Whether it’s Elsa Schiaparelli’s ‘Shocking Pink’, Kay Thompson’s show stopping number ‘Think Pink’ in Funny Face or Victoria’s Secret latest underwear line, pink will always get your attention.
G1, kit lens, ISO 400