Fun with textures

Inspired by my friends over at the image is found photography, I thought I would take a crack at introducing some textures to my images. Here is my first experiment.



f/2.8, 1/80s, 17mm, ISO 800

For reference, this is a sample of the concrete texture I used (the original is too big to display here). I flipped the texture horizontally so the crack you see there would appear on the right side instead of the left as it is below.

(I found this image on some free texture site.)

It's in the eyes

f/2.8, 1/100sec, 22mm, ISO 800

View from the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco

f/8, 8 seconds, 17mm, ISO 200

Grace Cathedral can be seen, and if you look carefully, you can see the Golden Gate bridge on the far right.

Arizona dreams

1/4000 sec, f/2.8, 35mm, ISO 200, center-weighted metering
Shot from drivers side window into rental car side-view mirror

Coit Tower, Alcatraz / San Francisco

Having lived in or around San Francisco for a long time has caused me to take its beauty for granted. I've been trying to change that, and these dusk shots of Coit Tower and North Beach were taken from the highest floor of the Hilton on Kearny street, which offers the unobstructed view you see below. Thanks to Thomas Hawk for the tip on the Hilton.


f/11, 13 seconds, 50mm, ISO 200

Broadway & Columbus, North Beach / San Francisco

f/8, 1.3 seconds, 55mm, ISO 200