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05.2.10
Display, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
There’s a dock on the UCSB lagoon for kayaking, and these birds love to hang out there during the day. I need to go back sometime soon and get more shots of them. They are very photogenic.
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04.29.10
Looking over the edge of the world, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
At sunset, at San Simeon State Beach. I didn’t know this family, but they walked into my photo at just the right time.
Interestingly, Lightroom’s Auto Tone did a great job of this photo. I find that it often has trouble with darker images, but it did a great job here bringing out the colors in this shot.
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04.26.10
DPChallenge 1-1: Lake, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
This was the final shot I used for the DPChallenge League we’re doing. The theme was supposed to be Zen, and I think this works all-right, but not great.
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04.21.10
Beachwalker, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
Christina on the beach at San Simeon.
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04.11.10
Bench, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
Although it was high noon, at f/2.8, this bench really glowed at me when underexposed. I like the brightness from the sandy area with all of the darkness around it.
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04.4.10
Faces, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
The human brain is programmed to find faces everywhere, it seems. Here’s one on an old tractor from a local ranch.
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04.1.10
My Rules, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
This dog really felt like he owned this picnic table on the UCSB campus. I was very glad I had my camera with me so I could capture him.
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03.21.10
Red and Green, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
On the UCSB Campus. The contrast between the old red barn and the strikingly green leaves here is what drew me to this photo. I’m not sure which, though.
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03.16.10
Free Hanging Lamp, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
I like the hanging nature of this lamp from my father’s boat. It also reminds me quite a bit of an image Shayna took for our SBCC photo class.
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03.9.10
Memory of Rain, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
After the rains fall, the water sticks to things, leaving a trace of its presence.
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03.6.10
Road, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
I have no idea why there were shoes on the power line above the train tracks at Goleta Station, but there were.
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03.2.10
Old Man, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
At the Monterey Bay Aquarium earlier this year. This guy was moving all around his tank, and gave me a ton of good pictures, although they are all pretty noisy due to the very limited light I had.
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02.23.10
Brad and Baby, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
I haven’t been taking as many pictures as I’d like recently, but I did get this one from Saturday’s Miracle Fruit party. It’s a little dark, but Brad looks very cute holding that baby. He should do it more often!
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02.19.10
Street #2, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
I caught this guy totally off the cuff while waiting for Shayna at lunch one day. I love the lighting on his face.
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02.16.10
Sunset, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
Although the sunset on this evening wasn’t particularly spectacular, I liked now it offset these flowers. There’s no color detail in the flowers themselves, but their silhouette is strong.
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02.7.10
Clinging, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
Although the butterfly season in Goleta is coming to a close, there are still a few left. Here they are clinging to a eucalyptus branch.
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02.2.10
Disease, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
Christina spotted these diseased flowers on the sidewalk near my house over the weekend. I really like the color play between the flower petal and the brown disease.
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01.31.10
This is the rain that created the lovely lake in Shayna’s previous picture. I haven’t done a lot of high-speed stop-action photography, so I’m happy about how this came out. I wanted something different than the traditional drop-in-midair photo, and this splash is what I wanted.
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01.27.10
Happy, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
I’ve been sick this last week, so I haven’t taken many photos, nor have I had the energy to go through older ones to post.
However, I did capture this one of Littlest playing with a colander. She is one happy baby. :)
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01.19.10
The period just after a rain often makes for really good pictures. Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten out after the rains of the last few days until this evening.
The network of twigs on this tree silhouetted against the sky and clouds speaks to me in this photo, but I’m not exactly sure how. Perhaps it has something do to with the rain and the intrusion of the natural world onto the normal perfect weather we seem to always have here in Santa Barbara.
At least the clouds are pretty.
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01.16.10
I love signs with raised letters. They really lend themselves to macro-like shots like this one. This sign is in the older part of Santa Barbara, around the Mission.
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01.12.10
In the mornings in the fall, we get this lovely fog on the open fields near our house. They’re planning on building faculty housing here, so I’m not sure this shot will be here next October. This one was taken in 2007.
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01.10.10
A gatepost from one of the secondary entrances to the Santa Barbara Mission gardens.
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01.7.10
I don’t usually post images with motion blur or color tint, but this one just looks cool as-is. It was taken late in the day, with the sun low in the sky and everything illuminated with a pink tone. I could have White Balanced it out (and I have a version that does have it that way), but I decided to leave it for this version.
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01.4.10
A part of what remains at Knapps Castle in the hills north of Santa Barbara.
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01.2.10
For Moominmolly, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
Moominmolly posted an insanely cute picture of her daughter with an octopus on her head shortly after she was born. In that vein, here’s one of our littlest.
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12.29.09
We’ve had a lot of nice cloudy sunsets recently. They aren’t always super colorful, but they really produce a nice fringe of clouds along the skyline.
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12.26.09
Taken along the wild space near my home in Goleta.
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12.24.09
Portrait #2, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
This picture came out interestingly. The focus was good, but the original was too red. I found a new way in Lightroom to adjust the colors (using the photo to identify which hues to adjust) , and was able to bring it down about the amount I wanted without too much trouble. I’m excited about playing with color adjustment in the future.
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12.12.09
This is my first attempt at taking a portrait shot and converting it to greyscale. One important thing when framing/editing to greyscale is getting sufficient contrast between the subject and the background. In this case, my grandfather’s shirt was a pretty bright blue. I had to tone the blues down so that he stood out from it properly. It was an interesting challenge.
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12.8.09
We’ve had a lot of pretty clouds the last few weeks. This was early in the morning on my way to work. Like my last cloud picture, I just couldn’t help stopping a snapping a few off on my way.
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12.4.09
According to Lightroom, this is the only photo I took on this day, which seems strange. However, I like the depth of field here quite a bit. The point of focus is about halfway between her nose and eyes, which works well to accentuate the size and width of Christina’s eyes, as well as the mid-expression that she’s been caught in here.
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12.1.09
This is the content-aware-scaled version of Expanse. I am posting it for comparison to the previous version, and the original. This one is both square and preserves the gray strip at the top. Looking at both, I think I like the cropped 1:1 version better, although this one is interesting as-is.
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11.24.09
I was pleased with how well this grossly underexposed shot came out. The tiny amount of light that remains in the image gives the ghostly feel that I was looking for in this image.
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11.19.09
I love fog, especially in the mornings. Interesting weather is always nice to have in a largely weather-free town like Santa Barbara.
I used a Lightroom graduated filter to darken the bottom half of this image, which I think helped hide some of the distracting building elements. I could also have blurred them a bit in Photoshop as well.
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11.17.09
Christina mentioned that she liked the contrast between the mundanity of the houses and the beautifully-clouded sky. I’m not sure I agree 100% with her, but I do like how the sky turned out in this image, and I didn’t want to totally crop out the houses.
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11.11.09
Wired, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
I’ve always felt like there’s a bunch of good pictures in electric/telephone poles, but I always find them hard to capture. This one is all-right, but I still keep wanting to capture the interesting complexity there, but I haven’t figured out the best way to. I’d appreciate any comments or thoughts on the matter or on this image.
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11.9.09
I found this mushroom on-campus earlier this year. I think he looks a lot like the Kodama spirits from Princess Mononoke. I’ve tweaked this photo a little bit, bringing up the saturation of the grass and cropping it a little.
I like the high contrast between the white mushroom and the grass, and the way the grass has grown around the shroom.
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11.5.09
Grandma and Granddaughter, originally uploaded by Ted Cabeen.
My mom with Rebecca. This picture came out super well. I’m not 100% sure I took it (it was from Dad’s camera), but I think I did. It feels very much like a posed photo, and the light (totally natural) really illuminated her well. In ANTM terms, she found her light.
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10.31.09
I took this by a dilapidated old shed near the airport. I’ve been there a few times near dusk, and it’s a very enjoyable location for shots. I expect you’ll see more of it in the future.
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10.26.09
This was a one-off shot from Goleta Beach, but I really like the brightness of the water and the silhouette of the boat.
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10.23.09
I love Street Photography. I expect you’ll see a lot of it posted here over the next few months.
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10.20.09
I took this as a storm was approaching Goleta. It looks really good small, but doesn’t seem to look as good when seen close up.
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10.16.09
Another landscape picture from our Photo 109 Class. I always feel like the colors in this photo are a bit unrealistically saturated, but I still like it.
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10.16.09
This is probably the most traditionally good of the photos I took at Yosemite in Feburary.
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