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Salt Evaporation Pond Oblique


cris benton

This photograph and most of the others I have posted on Photo.net are taken from kite-lofted cameras. A kite, unseen in the image, supports a small, radio-controlled cradle that holds the camera. I can position the camera by walking around and/or letting out or retrieving kite line. I aim the camera and fire its shutter using the radio while I stay at the ground end of the kite line. The camera can rotate through the compass, tilt from horizon to nadir, and change from portrait to landscape format. I compose my images by watching the camera and imagining what it would see. The whole process entertains me to no end.Details are available at http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap


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Taken 100 feet or so above the southern end of San Francisco Bay

this shot features a high salinity pond with crystallization evident

in the foreground and the bay proper with the San Mateo ridgeline in

the distance. The colors, vivid in the midday sun, are natural and

range from the bright orange of salt water rich in halophilic

bacteria to the greens of the windswept bay waters and the blues of

distant hill and sky. I adjusted curves in Photoshop and applied a

bit of unsharp mask to the reduced image and that was it (other than

adding the faux mat).

 

I would love to hear your thoughts.

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