Snow pics from Richmond

[vcutag]

As most of you on the East Coast know, it snowed the other day. For us in Richmond, it was the first snow of the season.

Most of these are long exposures at large apertures, ISO 100 w/ my DRebel. I did a lot of color correction work in Photoshop RAW, I wanted to see what the normally pinkish-orange tint of the streetlights on the snow would look like if I adjusted the temperature downward.

http://www.shadesofblack.org/lj/snow/snow0.jpg
The median strip of Monument Avenue at Davis.

http://www.shadesofblack.org/lj/snow/snow2.jpg
Looking south from my front porch during the heaviest snow.

http://www.shadesofblack.org/lj/snow/snow5.jpg
The Robert E. Lee monument, no set of photos from Richmond would be complete without it. :)

http://www.shadesofblack.org/lj/snow/snow11.jpg
Playing with my new tele lens, a tree down the block from my apartment.

http://www.shadesofblack.org/lj/snow/snow15.jpg
Looking across the street from my apartment after the snow died down some.

The rest of them are here so as to not violate the 8-photo limit: http://www.shadesofblack.org/lj/snow/

[aardwolf204]

The first and last photo in your gallery are stunning. I take it the first is down Monument, where did you take the last might I ask?

PS: I'm new here but glad I found the place, seems to be the right crowd for me. So far I'm on my 3rd Canon if you include the ZR80 DV cam.

[vcutag]

The first and last photo in your gallery are stunning. I take it the first is down Monument, where did you take the last might I ask?

PS: I'm new here but glad I found the place, seems to be the right crowd for me. So far I'm on my 3rd Canon if you include the ZR80 DV cam.

The last in the link I posted, or the last here?

The last in the link, the panoramic, was from 22nd & Grace in Church Hill facing west across Shockoe Valley (you can see I-95 running south and then out across the James to the left). The last in the gallery was from the Boulevard.

[aardwolf204]

Were you on top of a parking garage or building?

[vcutag]

Were you on top of a parking garage or building?

Neither, Church Hill makes an incredibly steep drop right there, I'd say probably a 65º incline or greater, almost like a cliff. Grace St. makes a little cul-de-sac near the old WRVA studio and Alden Aaroe Park, there are some benches there, it's a nice little "lover's lane"-esque part of town.

Here's a better pano from the same location: http://www.shadesofblack.org/lj/copyrighted/shockoeday2thumb.jpg (http://www.shadesofblack.org/lj/copyrighted/shockoeday2.jpg)

[aardwolf204]

wow thats a great shot. I'm going to have to take my VCU g/f there some time. How did you get that nice panoramic?

[vcutag]

wow thats a great shot. I'm going to have to take my VCU g/f there some time. How did you get that nice panoramic?

A tripod and my EF28-80 lens; I took a 180º arc of shots with the camera set to full manual and stitched them together in Photoshop CS (as I don't like Canon's Photostitch program for anything other than conversion to QTVR). The daytime pano I accidentally shot with the white-balance set to "flash", so I had to stich them together blue and then do the color correction on the large image.