Even though the last twenty posts might lead you to believe that I shoot nothing but live shows, I don't consider myself a music photographer. I have other photographic passions, it's just that it's tough to get up in time to shoot a sunrise when I got to bed at 2am after a night at the Casbah. I meant to get down to the children's pool in La Jolla on Saturday morning, but after stopping at both Nelson's Photo locations, parking, realizing I left my neutral density filters at home, going back to pick them up, coming back and battling for parking again, I only got my tripod set up after noon.



ND filters tend to flatten colors so I bumped up the saturation, perhaps a bit more than I should have. The polarizer cuts light by another 2.5 stops and makes the water look nice and blue without a lot of the midday glare that can ruin the look.





My trip to Nelsons was for picking up a filter adapter so that I could use my 77mm ND filters on my 58mm telephoto lens. Best $12.95 I ever spent. This opens up a whole world of possibilities.







I do want to try this again with the sun a bit lower in the sky, I think I might be able to get some spectacular shots with some more appealing lighting.



Full moon is next week, anybody want to make a nighttime trip here with me?