Category Archives: Photographs

Charcuterie

Photographs

Yummy!

Carmel, CA. G1, Olympus 9-18mm MFT lens @ 9mm, 1/60, f/5.6, ISO 320

Lens pressed up against the glass to eliminate reflections and shake.

I used my home made lens correction profile to take out chromatic aberration (in this case green fringing at the edges, and quite easily seen in the uncorrected original) and distortion in Lightroom 3 – one click.

You can download my profiles for this great lens here or learn more about making your own at that link.

Whaler’s cabin

Photographs

At Point Lobos.

My annual trip to enjoy the wonders of Point Lobos was spoiled this year by the fact that the Bird Rock area, where you can see cormorants tending their young on stick nests placed on bare rock, was closed off for repairs. Not that that stopped the State of California charging the full entrance fee which, had I known of the closure, I would have refused to pay.

Still, there is always much to see and revel in here. Take this whalers’ cabin:

Whalers’ Cabin, Point Lobos. G1, kit lens @ 14mm, 1/160, f/5,6, ISO 320.

The cabin overlooks Whalers’ Cove. Like your Mac it was built by slave Chinese laborers, this one in the 1850s. It will outlast your iPad. Slaughtered whales were processed here in the years 1862-79 and many of the tools of the trade – killing weapons, pots for melting blubber, primitive diving suits and so on are well displayed here.

Worth a visit, especially when Bird Rock is closed.