Nikon D3S | Nikon 28 – 300 mm lens | ISO 200 7 Shot HDR @ f7.1
Thank you for stopping by. Yesterday evening Jeanne and I went down to the Warehouse District in Dubuque. There is a huge renovation and revitalization project going on there and some really neat old buildings are finding new life.
My hope was to catch the buildings in the golden hour with warm sunlight on the buildings. Unfortunately there was some cloud cover so no “killer light” was available.
The image above is a 7 shot HDR image of a section of the warehouse project that is completed and occupied by a business. We saw a concept design of what the project will look like when it is completed. It will be amazing.
Nikon D3S | Nikon 28 – 300 mm lens | ISO 800 1/80 sec @ f7.1
Jeanne drove last night and that gave me the opportunity to look for images to shoot without having to worry about traffic. However, she got to looking for images as well and I had to remind her a few times to watch the road. It is contagious. 🙂
We were losing the light rapidly and since I managed to drop my tripod (thank God not the camera) after the first HDR and busted a couple of the controls I was left with hand holding the camera for the rest of my shooting. I had to bump the ISO up as I lost light eventually ending up at ISO 1600.
Nikon D3S | Nikon 28 – 300 mm lens | ISO 1600 1/60 sec @ f7.1
One of the many neat things about the D3S is it has amazing low light shooting capabilities. I shot this image at ISO 1600 and could find no “grain” in the image.
So after we lost the light we went to Crust for dinner. We had not been there since the night Joshua was born. We were greeted and seated right away but then nothing. After 15 minutes I told Jeanne if we don’t have some service in 10 more minutes we will leave. With 5 minutes to spare a waitress showed up with some pizza balls (like doughnut holes.) 🙂
I told her we were beginning to wonder if we were going to have a waitress and she said “Well I’m here now.” Not in a in-your-face way just stating a fact. From that point on it was a wonderful dinning experience (mainly because of the pizza balls.) I had the lobster ravioli, a salad of weeds and two glasses of a red wine that was wonderful but I don’t remember the name of it.
Jeanne had some weird-looking stuff that she said was great. My dinner was EXCELLENT! I may have, at sometime, had a better meal, but right then I couldn’t remember when. 🙂
It was a very enjoyable evening with my bride. Got some interesting images to share with you later on. Enjoy your Sunday. Rest and relax because it all starts all over again tomorrow. Be careful.
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