San Gregorio Beach

I finally got out shooting again this weekend, with my brother (a much better alternative to shopping on black friday). Here are some shots I got at the beach and some of my bro playing with his new camera. Hope you enjoy.

Ps--check out Andy's photos and writings at www.andyheitz.blogspot.com

Chocolates

SO yeah, it's been a while since I've posted anything, or gotten out to shoot with my D40.
But I did just get an iphone, and have been playing a bit with the camera shooting things here and there, and I'm thinking maybe I'll start uploading some iphone pics in between SLR shoots.

This one was taken at IKEA last night, in the little snack section after checkout.
I liked the repetition in the neatly stacked boxes of chocolates.

I also ran a filter or two over it in the limited iphone photoshop app.

I think all in all, it made for some pretty nice results.

My how "phones" have evolved...

Gone Hiking

I decided to spend a portion of the Memorial Day holiday hiking through the gigantic Redwoods in Muir Woods National Monument.

I only came out with a handful of shots that I was remotely happy with, and even so, I'm not super proud of them.

I had a hard time with the exposures, and felt that most of my pictures came out either way overexposed, or way underexposed.  Most of these here have been manipulated pretty well in Photoshop.

Anyway, all that to say I really need to force myself to practice more, and get comfortable shooting in any lighting condition.

Hope you enjoy the trees.

At The Water's Edge

I got off work a little early today, so I thought I'd wander around the campus to see if there was anything interesting to shoot.  Here's what I got.

Hope you like!

Every Day Beauty

Here are some shots I took outside of work today, and even a couple I grabbed on the drive home. While I know that close up shots of flowers, grass, trees and clouds are all pretty cliche by this point, I just can't help but find them interesting.

I'll try to veer away from the subject matter in the future.

Hope you enjoy.

Finally!!!

So thanks to the input of a couple different people, I think I was finally able to figure out the problem with the colors in my uploaded photos. It turns out that by default they were being brought into Photoshop with the Embedded Adobe RGB (1998) color profile, when to get accurate web colors, it should be converted to the working profile which is sRGB. Then, instead of just saving the files the regular way, I chose the option "Save for Web", and saved them out as JPG's with "Very High Quality".

Instead of taking down my old post and replacing the images, I figured I'd go ahead and just repost this time so hopefully you can see the difference between the two.
It may seem like a slight difference in the colors, but I think it makes a huge difference in what you see. Open them in separate windows and compare if you like.

Thanks Rebbaz, Dad, and this guy

Color vs. B&W

There were a couple photos from the series below that I was sort of on the fence about whether to post them as black and white or color prints, so I figured I'd post them as both.

Here they are--let me know your opinion.  

Sketchcrawl Video

My friend from work Goro Fujita cut together a video from the day--it came out really well.
Take a look!!


22nd SketchCrawl San Francisco from Goro on Vimeo.

Sketchcrawl

*sketchcrawl lettering added in Photoshop.  Cheating, I know...


























This weekend,  I went up to San Francisco to meet up with a bunch of other artists for Sketchcrawl.  It is a day long drawing marathon held about once every three months, and is a great excuse to grab your sketchbook (and camera in my case) and go hit the streets.

By the end of the day there must have been over 150 of us roaming around the city drawing, eating, and hanging out.

It was a great experience, and I'm already looking forward to the next one.  Here are some pics I took while I was out and about.

For sketches from the day, check out my blog at www.timheitz.blogspot.com 

*Once again, the colors and contrast seem to be washed out quite a bit in the upoaded versions. Picture them being prettier in your mind ;)...

Walk In The Park

My original plan was to work in black and white for as long as possible, so I could focus mainly on composition. But for these pictures I just felt that the colors of the greens and blues in the sunlight were just too important to the overall images.

These were shot at a park in the San Jose/Milpitas area last weekend. It was a beautiful day and I was surrounded by beautiful scenery.

Oh, and the jetstream in the sky is probably the longest one I have ever seen. The pictures don't really capture just how far it stretched.

*REPOST- These photos have been reposted with the truer colors

Walk Around The Block

When I got home from work today, I had the itch to go take some pictures.  Unfortunately there's not a whole lot of interesting scenery around where I live, so I just worked with what I had.

Not the most exciting stuff, but here it is all the same.

One Man's Trash...

(the sign at the bottom of the frame is probably my favorite part of the picture above)

These were taken at a firestation that I happened to drive by on my way back from the bank this afternoon. The building first caught my attention, and as I pulled into the parking lot I noticed an old demolished bus along with a bunch of smashed cars and what appeared to be some burned and broken crash test dummies or mannequins.

Unfortunately it was pretty overcast, and even began to rain as I started shooting so the lighting is pretty flat, but I thought it made for some pretty interesting scenery.

Hope you enjoy.

Foot in the Water

I'd like to start this blog by saying: I am new to photography.

I did take a beginning photo class in college, when we still developed prints in the darkroom, but the course I took was compressed into a couple months of summer classes.
In the end it seemed more like cramming for an exam, where you remember what you need to remember for the short amount of time necessary, but without continual practice the knowledge fades from existence.
Which brings me to present day. I recently bought a new digital SLR (Nikon D40) and am in the process of trying to "relearn" all the things I was already taught. My goal is to become comfortable with my camera as though it is an extension of my being. Right now it feels more like a newly attatched prosthetic, and I feel awkward and fumbly with it.
All that to say, please bear with me. My hope is that, as this blog progresses, my photos will also.
I am going to make a conscious effort (a mid-year resolution if you will) to take more pictures, and to post as often as I can.
But enough blabbering for now.
Here are some pics I took after work last night at a Marina in Redwood City.
I hope you enjoy!