Big Sur, Night One [Archive] - MacRumors Forums

iGary

Apr 21, 2005, 11:15 AM

As some of you may know, I'm out here in Collifornia doing a spec shoot for a magazine, which basically means I prolly won't get the project, but I put up the money to do it, so I'll be broke, but I'm having a good time.

Anyway, it is luckily not warm here and that keeps the fog away. Had a nice shot of "my" waterfall last night. (Caveat: I'm working on my iBook with its abysmal display, so forgive any color problems.)

Enjoy:

http://homepage.mac.com/garybooberry/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-21%2008.11.21%20-0700/Image-946786F8B27711D9.jpg

dotdotdot

Apr 21, 2005, 11:21 AM

Wow! Thats a great picture!

I went with my parents to Big Sur last year...

We stayed at the Big Sur River Inn and it was a pretty... awkward hotel/motel/inn, whatever. But we only were in Big Sur for 1 night so we stayed there

Applespider

Apr 21, 2005, 11:30 AM

Completely OT - but just as I clicked on this, my iPod (on shuffle) got to the Chili Peppers 'Road Trippin' with the line 'In Big Sur, we take some time to linger on'

I remember playing the 'Californication' album last time I drove the PCH in my rented red Pontiac Firebird convertible - still makes me grin everytime I hear it or see pics of the coast. :D

Kushiro

Apr 21, 2005, 11:31 AM

I went to graduate school in Monterey--god, what I wouldn't give to be back there now.....

mkrishnan

Apr 21, 2005, 11:40 AM

*Understands more and more why he needs to run the Big Sur marathon!*

Nice pic, iGary. I hope you get to meet Steve Jobs randomly on the next leg of your trip. :D

iGary

Apr 21, 2005, 11:45 AM

*Understands more and more why he needs to run the Big Sur marathon!*

That's the other reason I'm out here. ;)

It's my second one, and yes, you need to run it. My first Big Sur was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, and I'm back for more.

Mr. Anderson

Apr 21, 2005, 11:46 AM

Nice pic - you have any others?

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iGary

Apr 21, 2005, 11:47 AM

Nice pic - you have any others?

D

I do, just haven't had time to process them. I'll put an album up tonight. :D

macbaseball

Apr 21, 2005, 11:49 AM

As some of you may know, I'm out here in Collifornia doing a spec shoot for a magazine, which basically means I prolly won't get the project, but I put up the money to do it, so I'll be broke, but I'm having a good time.

Nice picture. I live about half an hour away from there. (Approximately, I'm not really sure where that is) Good luck in the marathon.

Applespider

Apr 21, 2005, 12:02 PM

iGary

Apr 21, 2005, 12:04 PM

Gary... having glanced at the course on the marathon's website, I'm in awe! I think I'd be gone by Hurricane Point regardless of training, particularly when I see there's a 5 1/2 hour timelimit.

Best of luck!

Thanks so much.

Hurricane Point is rough, but the worst part of the marathon are the 6 miles of rolling hills at the end. For real.

I'm off to the aquarium to watch the sea otters :p .

I'll post more pics tonight. :D

Thanks for looking. :)

jayb2000

Apr 21, 2005, 12:06 PM

I think that is Julia Pfeiffer State Park.
I used to live in Santa Cruz and went camping at Pfieffer State Campgrounds (a different place, farther north) many times.

That area is probably one of the most beautiful I have ever been to. I love it out there.

Enjoy your time there. If you happen to get a good picture of the coast, looking south, from just after the big bridge (something creek..) I would love to see it (and use it for my desktop!)

iGary

Apr 21, 2005, 12:08 PM

iGary

Apr 21, 2005, 06:38 PM

Somebody wanted Bixby Bridge.

http://homepage.mac.com/garybooberry/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-21%2015.36.19%20-0700/Image-BC0AC349B2B511D9.jpg

Daveway

Apr 21, 2005, 06:41 PM

Hey Gary can you upload some high rez pics of your trip? These would make exellent desktops.

iGary

Apr 21, 2005, 06:43 PM

Hey Gary can you upload some high rez pics of your trip? These would make exellent desktops.

I'll put some on my site later tonight, but they'll only be at 72 dpi, can't have folks trying to sell my stuff, but yeah, when I get back from shooting tonight I'll put some stuff on my server - happy to.

Platform

Apr 22, 2005, 11:11 AM

Somebody wanted Bixby Bridge.

http://homepage.mac.com/garybooberry/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-21%2015.36.19%20-0700/Image-BC0AC349B2B511D9.jpg

That is amazing............... :rolleyes: :eek: :D

Mr. Anderson

Apr 22, 2005, 06:21 PM

Nice bridge pic!

But those power lines and contrail - bleh, what a pain. You taking them out in photoshop?

D

mkrishnan

Apr 22, 2005, 06:43 PM

Is that bridge pic morning light or evening light? I know you said the first one was evening. The richness of the hues...gah. :D

Mr. Anderson

Apr 22, 2005, 07:05 PM

Is that bridge pic morning light or evening light? I know you said the first one was evening. The richness of the hues...gah. :D

Its on the west coast, so I would imagine that's evening light....otherwise, that's some wild place out in California :D

D

Daveway

Apr 22, 2005, 07:22 PM

That is amazing............... :rolleyes: :eek: :D

Amazing & Perfect if it is brought into PS to get the powerlines and jet trail out of course. ;)

iGary

Apr 22, 2005, 07:34 PM

Amazing & Perfect if it is brought into PS to get the powerlines and jet trail out of course. ;)

Yep, it was in the evening. I got some more today, and yeah, the lines are coming out in PS. :)

I will try and get some stuff up tonight or tomorrow. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, and I'm supposed to take it easy (day before the marathon) but I'll get some more stuff up, and hopefully get a few full size pics up for screensavers. :D

The weather Gods look like they are gonna hold of on raining for Sunday. :)

mkrishnan

Apr 22, 2005, 09:27 PM

Its on the west coast, so I would imagine that's evening light....otherwise, that's some wild place out in California :D

Well, it could be part of a bay or something, so that the directions are messed up! *looks at shadows and feels dumb* :D

*does a prayer and a sun dance for iGary*

Mr. Anderson

Apr 22, 2005, 11:11 PM

Well, it could be part of a bay or something, so that the directions are messed up! *looks at shadows and feels dumb* :D

Yes it could be a peninsula, but I know a little bit about the area and know that it couldn't be there....

D

jessica.

Apr 23, 2005, 02:34 AM

Nice images. I missed the far off one of bixby last week, but got McWay Cove at around 4pm so the water was real nice.

Really nice work.

Lacero

Apr 23, 2005, 03:11 AM

Looks like you used a slow shutter speed to shoot that pic giving the shoreline a milky look.

Platform

Apr 23, 2005, 04:27 AM

Amazing & Perfect if it is brought into PS to get the powerlines and jet trail out of course. ;)

Yeah that is right but you can't have it all in one go eh :p ;)

iGary

Apr 23, 2005, 01:40 PM

Looks like you used a slow shutter speed to shoot that pic giving the shoreline a milky look.

Yep, it's about a 10 sec exposure f/22 with two 8X and one 4X neutral density filters stacked.

I pulled some images that I will post tonight if people want to use them for screensavers; I just have to post-process them a bit first.

iGary

Apr 23, 2005, 04:53 PM

OK, here are the ones I'll FTP to my site tonight. Again, forgive any color problems, the iBook screen blows, even calibrated. :rolleyes:

http://homepage.mac.com/garybooberry/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-23%2013.49.10%20-0700/Image-11956182B43911D9.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/garybooberry/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-23%2013.49.10%20-0700/Image-119584C2B43911D9.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/garybooberry/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-23%2013.49.10%20-0700/Image-119597B7B43911D9.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/garybooberry/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-23%2013.49.10%20-0700/Image-1195A78FB43911D9.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/garybooberry/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-04-23%2013.49.10%20-0700/Image-1195B691B43911D9.jpg

mkrishnan

Apr 24, 2005, 01:48 PM

*waits patiently for marathon news*

:D

macbaseball

Apr 24, 2005, 02:26 PM

*waits patiently for marathon news*

:D

I am too. Be sure to post how it was. Hopefully the weather was alright; it looks alright out right now from my house, just cloudy, but it's not raining.

The pictures are awesome by the way.

Mr. Anderson

Apr 24, 2005, 02:34 PM

I love the last one....nice stuff.

What lens are you shooting with?

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iGary

Apr 24, 2005, 10:41 PM

I love the last one....nice stuff.

What lens are you shooting with?

D

That was with a Sigma 12-24 f4.5/5.6. The rest were taken with an EF 24-70 f2.8L. I'll fix up the colors once I get home. They're way off in a couple.

The marathon sucked, basically. I ate some bad sushi Friday which, shall we say for the purposes of not being too graphic, resulted in some severe lower GI problems for the first half of the race, which in turn left me dehydrated and puking.

BUT

I finished. My worst time ever (5:20), but I made it. I considered quitting several times I felt so bad. Now, a couple of Vicodins later, and my back isn't having spasms and my whole body doesn't feel like it has been steamrolled.

I'm not going to bother with posting them online for screensavers, but if anyone wants one, just PM me you e-mail, I'd happily send whichever image you want. :p

Thanks to all for looking and for the support. :D

mkrishnan

Apr 24, 2005, 10:56 PM

I'm so sorry about the race! :( I had the GI issues during a race once (only 10 miles, ironically called the Run Through Hell :rolleyes: ) so I totally sympathize!

I love that wide angle too, btw. :)