More shots of Seattle (bandwidth warning)

coscorrosa

These shots were taken Monday and Tuesday before and after work. It's been colder than normal in Seattle, and there's even a little snow on the ground, so I figured I should take advantage of the opportunity and lugged my gear to work.

#1 King Street Station (taken at dawn from a balcony at my office). Unfortunately there's another building on the right so I couldn't do the composition I wanted (which would require removal of said building):



#2 Qwest Field (taken from the same spot as #1):



#3 Trees silhouetted by the sunset with some snow (yeah, this isn't a "Seattle" shot, but it was taken about 100 yards from #4):



#4 (my favorite composition from this bridge that I've taken a million times, but this is the first one with snow in the foreground):



#4.5 (I didn't include this in the original post, but meant to!). This is from the same spot as #4, except zoomed in and angled toward downtown (this allowed me to us a polarizer to bring out the colors in the clouds, as the wide angle shot in #4 showed obvious banding with a polarizer).



#5 Space Needle at dusk:



#6 Space Needle at sunset with a faint Mt. Rainier on the right:



#7 Space Needle at sunrise:



And now two 10+ shot panoramas (which are responsible for the bandwidth warning). These are "X3" size on SmugMug which isn't large enough to do them justice, but posting the "Original" size would just be rude. So, this is a compromise

#8 Space Needle and Elliott Bay at sunrise:



#9 Space Needle at sunset:

Abiciriderback

Great series Ron. You guys have escaped the bad snow yet today. Just a mess up here in Marysville

Ray Still

scottV

all freakin amazing. I think #4 is probably my favorite.

Moogle Pepper

Whoa!! Very nice!!

pillman

Nice JOB which allows you to photograph... Great work, #4 wins for me...

kdog

Stunning shots, Ron. Not too shabby for work balcony shots.


The panos would make great wall-hangers. #4 is my favorite of the single shots. Stunning comp, and the light balance there is just perfect.

-joel

coscorrosa

Abiciriderback wrote:

Great series Ron. You guys have escaped the bad snow yet today. Just a mess up here in Marysville

Ray Still

We more than made up for it this morning, about 4-5" which is the most it's snowed here in 2 years. Photos forthcoming

coscorrosa

pillman wrote:

Nice JOB which allows you to photograph... Great work, #4 wins for me...

Thanks!

They also allow me to work 50+ hours a week and carry a pager and be on-call 25% of the year

But yes, it's good that they allow me to deviate from the normal working hours occasionally.

coscorrosa

kdog wrote:

Stunning shots, Ron. Not too shabby for work balcony shots.


The panos would make great wall-hangers. #4 is my favorite of the single shots. Stunning comp, and the light balance there is just perfect.

-joel

Thanks Joel! I just added another one from that same spot ("4.5").

I have a full gallery of panos from Kerry Park, some of them are better than the ones posted here:

http://photos.coscorrosa.com/gallery/6858384_gZhC6

Also, if you want to talk about balcony shots, the below shot was taken from the balcony of another office building at work (unfortunately, it's closed off 99% of the time despite my gripes):

kitvan

Great stuff as always Ron!

I love #7 that's a postcard right there!! lust

I miss seattle so much.

Reeflections

Incredible!! #4 is easily my fav. thumb

annnna8888

Brilliant! I can't quite decide which one I like best. The light in all of them is exquisite. The snow adds a special quality to the photos. What time did you have to get up to get those pre-sunrise photos?

Ana

ChrisJ

Beautiful, I always show your shots to my wife, who's a native Seattlite and it makes her miss home. We watched the Kingdome implode from that hill...

kdog

coscorrosa wrote:

Also, if you want to talk about balcony shots, the below shot was taken from the balcony of another office building at work (unfortunately, it's closed off 99% of the time despite my gripes):

Wow. :wow That's another stunner.

Say, am I detecting some HDR action in some of those shots?

Cheers,
-joel

bryanj87

Awesome series. I love the panos.

Now I'm inspired to go stitch together my series of shots I took from Kerry park at night.

coscorrosa

annnna8888 wrote:

Brilliant! I can't quite decide which one I like best. The light in all of them is exquisite. The snow adds a special quality to the photos. What time did you have to get up to get those pre-sunrise photos?

Ana

Thanks!

They were taken around 7:15 AM, so I was probably up around 6 AM or so (only takes me about 20 minutes to get to these spots). Obviously the sun is rising a lot later in the morning now that we're near the winter solstice, so 7:15 AM is not bad at all compared to the ridiculous times I was waking up in summer.

coscorrosa

kdog wrote:

Wow. :wow That's another stunner.

Say, am I detecting some HDR action in some of those shots?

Cheers,
-joel

Yep! #1 and #2 are not HDR, and neither are the panos (my poor computer has a hard enough time doing HDR or panos by themselves, together is asking too much. Fortunately, I'm getting a new beefed up system in a week or so, so that may change ).

That second "balcony" shot was the first HDR photo I did in Photomatix (I had some failed earlier attempts in Photoshop).

Most of the time I use HDR not to capture more dynamic range, but because the tone mapping / local contrast adjustments look better to me than any other workflow I've been able to come up with yet.

Several of these had a 3-stop GND as well.

coscorrosa

ChrisJ wrote:

Beautiful, I always show your shots to my wife, who's a native Seattlite and it makes her miss home. We watched the Kingdome implode from that hill...

Thanks! I watched the Mariners bullpen implode many times in the Kingdome growing up (But I did see Randy Johnson's no-hitter there, as well as the 1995 playoffs. Good times...). I wish I had some photos of the Kingdome, she may have been ugly, but she had a good personality

coscorrosa

bryanj87 wrote:

Awesome series. I love the panos.

Now I'm inspired to go stitch together my series of shots I took from Kerry park at night.

Thanks Bryan - sounds like you haven't developed the OCD like symptoms I have when it comes to processing photos (that's a compliment!). I can't let a set rest for more than a day or two before going crazy and it hinders my enjoyment of taking new photos.