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Route 66
03, 04 & 05 February 2012

These are snaps from Dave Wyman's photo tour of Route 66.

I packed a Canon S100 and my 1963 LEICA M3 loaded with Kodak TMAX 100. No tripods were used, of course. I did make one shot with my classic Canon SD880, which I brought along for its battery, which is the same as the S100. The SD880 is still a darn good camera.

Since Apple Aperture 3 can get better color and sharpness from the Canon S100 shot in CR2 (raw) compared to the S100's own JPGs, and because Aperture makes it so easy and pleasant to work this way, I shot the S100 in CR2 raw and processed it all in Apple Aperture 3.

I exported my edited "versions" from Aperture, cataloged and selected the good ones in Phase One Media Pro, formatted each for publication in Photoshop CS5, and then created these pages and uploaded it all in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.

 

03 February 2012, Friday      skip to Saturday       Sunday      top

Today we headed to Barstow, California. Along the way,

Yum Yum

Yum Yum Restaurant, 11:37AM. (2012 Canon S100 at 26mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/5.9 at 1/1,000 at AUTO ISO 160.)

We met at the hotel, I gave a short lecture about everything you'd ever need to know about making great photos, and then we headed out to Tom's Welding.

 

GUL Sign, Tom's Welding

GUL, 3:16PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 13.4mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4 at 1/400 at AUTO ISO 80.)

 

TRIC Sign, Tom's Welding

TRIC, 3:16PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 11.8mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4 at 1/800 at AUTO ISO 80, split-toned.)

 

Tom's Welding

Tom's Welding, 3:24PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 5.2mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/2.8 at 1/1,200 at AUTO ISO 80.)

 

Tom's Welding

Fruit Bug, 3:29PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 5.2mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4 at 1/1,000 at AUTO ISO 80, FLASH ON to fill shadows.)

 

Tom's Welding

Tom's, 3:46PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 10.8mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4 at 1/1,250 at AUTO ISO 80.)

 

Tom's Welding

Machinist's Breakfast, 3:48PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 26mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/5.9 at 1/320 at AUTO ISO 80, split-toned.)

 

Tom's Welding

Bar Stock, 3:59 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 5.2mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/2 at 1/30 at AUTO ISO 200, dodged, burned and split-toned.)

 

Tom's Welding

Sparks, 4:17 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 21.7mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/5.6 at 1/100 at AUTO ISO 640, all by itself.)

 

After Tom's, we headed to the Barstow railway museum.

 

Barstow Casa del Desierto

A.T. & S.F. Ry. Co. Bells, 1957, 4:23 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 17.2mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4.5 at 1/125 at AUTO ISO 80.)

 

Barstow Casa del Desierto

Casa del Desierto, 4:35 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 5.2mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4 at 1/400 at AUTO ISO 80.)

 

Barstow Railway Museum 9950

9950, 4:42 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 17.1mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4.5 at 1/320 at AUTO ISO 80.)

 

Barstow Railway Museum 9950

66, 4:42 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 15.2mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4.5 at 1/1,000 at AUTO ISO 250. This is really the "99" of 9950, and I held the camera upside-down!)

From the museum we headed across the street to Namibia.

 

Namibia

Namibia, 4:57 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 26mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/5.9 at 1/250 at AUTO ISO 500.)

 

Vagina

Vagina, 5:10 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 9.1mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4 at 1/125 at AUTO ISO 80.)

 

After Namibia, back to the motel.

Holiday Inn Express, Barstow, CA

Holiday Inn Blue, 5:45 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 7.1mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/2.8 at 1/30 at AUTO ISO 800.)

Back at the motel, we enjoyed a catered meal, and then celebrated a few of our birthdays:

Camera Birthday Cake

Camera Birthday Cake, 6:51 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 14.6mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4.5 at 1/20 at AUTO ISO 1,600.)

After dinner, we walked over to the green motel next door.

Green Motel, Barstow CA

Green Door, Green Motel, 8:16 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 8.1mm, Pro (P) mode chose f/4 at 1/4 second at ISO 80, casual use of $40 Dolica AX620B100 tripod.)

 

Green Motel, Barstow CA

Motel 66, Barstow, 8:33 PM. (2012 Canon S100 at 5.2mm, f/2.8 at 15 seconds at ISO 80, casual use of $40 Dolica AX620B100 tripod.)

 

That's all for today. NEXT ->> Saturday

 

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