Driving home from another day on the road when I realized I hadn’t taken any pictures. I stopped just after the bridge over the Concord River coming in Carlisle and took a few quick photos with the iPhone. This picture is kind of missing a subject but still makes for a pretty scene.
While we were eating inner inside, this heron was fishing for his dinner outside. I spotted him out the window and managed to get outside with the camera before he wandered too far up the river. I had the 18-55mm lens on at the time and couldn’t pull in any closer than this but I think the scene overall still works pretty well.
The site of the old Waltham Watch Company. I was in Waltham for lunch and a meeting and decided to take a quick photowalk through the enter of town. In case the watermark didn’t give it away, this is another HDR composite image.
I was fortunate enough to catch both ends of a rainbow that appeared over Boston during a recent visit. I didn’t have my DSLR with me that night but I think I did a good job capturing things with the camera from my pocket. To make these images I first took several exposures of each scene by focusing on different brightness levels within the frame. Back at the computer I used an HDR (High Dynamic Range) plug-in to merge the best parts of the exposures into a single image. The results are good and look pretty natural, the way that our human eyes see things as opposed to a single camera exposure.
Standing on the edge of the Charles River in Cambridge I spotted a rainbow landing on the John Hancock tower in Boston. This is an HDR composite from three exposures taken with my iPhone. The differences between this and the “properly” exposed original are subtle, but I liked the additional contrast in the sky and the water that the HDR brought out.
While not as clearly defined as the other end of the rainbow, this end landed on top of one of the Massachusetts General Hospital buildings. That’s the Longfellow Bridge on the right crossing the Charles River of course. This too is an HDR composite made from pictures taken with the iPhone.
On a side note, our son was treated for a serious illness at MGH, and we spend a good number of days “living” in that shiny building. Our boy is healthy again and back to a normal childhood, so we did find our pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.
-Josh
Recently I attended a technology user group in Cambridge Massachusetts. As I looked out the window I noticed the evening sun was just hitting the buildings in Boston on the other side of the Charles River. I took out my best camera (the one I had with me, of course) and fired off a number of shots using different points in the scene to focus on. Later I used the trusty HDR software to combine three shots from the iPhone to create the image we have here. Considering that I took this with a camera phone through the windows of an office building, I’d say the results aren’t half bad.
Another attempt at an iPhone HDR shot. Captured these on the run just after a partner meeting in northern Massachusetts. I think it came out OK, but certainly nothing fantastic from an artistic or technical standpoint. Always love being by the water though!
I got up early and made the most of this business trip by taking a self-misguided photo tour of old-town Quebec. Stepping out of my hotel and turning towards the center I quickly came to see a large park on a hill just a block from where I was staying. I walked up to the park and was greeted with this splendid view of the rooftops and waterfront.
Took a quick trip into New Hampshire yesterday and on the way home I stopped and photographed the historic Tyngsborough Bridge. The bridge spans the Merrimack River, one of the largest in this part of the state. I decided to go with the wide shot and include a bit of the rails that parallel the river and to show the great width of the river itself. I like the steeple poking up towards the western end of the bridge, though from this distance its impact is pretty minimal. While not immediately obvious in this photo, there is a temporary bridge running alongside the old single-span steel arch bridge. This scene is a significant landmark to us when taking this route into our bordering state of New Hampshire. There are few crossings over the Merrimack, and old majestic spans like this one are always a sight to be behold.
“Built in 1930, it is the second oldest bridge of it’s type in the state of Massachusetts. The Tyngsborough Bridge’s 547 foot main span is the longest simple steel arch span in the MassHighway database, and the 5th-longest single span amongst all bridges listed in the database.” “Having fallen into serious disrepair, the green bridge has been replaced by a temporary structure while work is done to restore the former to be completed in summer 2012.”
