Fall in Mendoza – HDR

My first attempts at HDR…kinda cool.  I used the Photomatix plug in for Aperture — it’s easy to use and I like the results.

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Vineyard Sunset and Sunrise

I was traveling in the US, so I had not been out to the vineyard for a few weeks…it was worth the wait…

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Uco shake

This dog is hilarious…sunrise, dog shake and slow shutter speed…

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Joshua Tree

Landed in LA, grabbed some fajitas with Pruter.  We drove to Joshua Tree (3 1/2 hours).  Arrived to the Harmony Hotel (U2 stayed there!) — still a dump.  Crashed about 1am and woke up at 3:30 am to drive to the park and take these…Exhausted but fun.  D300 on my new midget Gitzo tripod…which is [...]

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Miami Skyline with the new LX3

And about an hour later…

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B&W conversion – Viveza Silver efx

So dave has 10+ years in photoshop…me, I use it for stitching panos and nothing else. I use aperture and new tools like viveza.  Super simple and great results…I think…Both of these were taken along the beach in Nicaragua with my D300 and my 18-200 lens…

Michael’s version above using Viveza Silver efx

dp’s version using Adobe [...]

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Vineyard Shots at Sunrise

Woke up at 5:30 on Saturday morning (after too many Fernets the night before)…but the sky was crystal clear so I got out of bed to take these shots…both taken with the D300 and 50mm 1.4 lens (love that lens — super fast and tack sharp)

The Vines of Mendoza featured in Newsweek

This has very little (nothing) to do with photography, but I am very happy about this nice press piece about our development…so I thought I would share…

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A Very Private Label

Brian Byrnes
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Jan 26, 2009

Any host can pour a great vintage at a dinner party. But how many can say, “Try this [...]

Lightning at the Vineyard

My first lightning shots…I got lucky.  I put my Nikon D300 with 70-200 2.8 lens on the tripod, focused on infinity and held the shuuter down until a few strikes hit.  Then I got tired of pressing the shutter, so I just left it open, drank some wine and went over and pressed it again [...]