Photo of the Day
At the end of May I was lucky enough to see a ballgame at AT&T Field in San Francisco. I had great seats behind the Giants on deck circle, but I knew that I wanted to go up top to get a couple of pictures. I was going to do it during the sunset, but the lack of clouds killed that idea. Yesterday I was cursing the clouds for ruining the supermoon picture, and of course here there were none. A photographer is never happy. The lack of clouds did allow me to make this picture though. I decided to go upstairs when the sky was a bit blue without knowing what I would see. When I walked out behind home plate I saw the full moon rising, and I was thrilled. I tried a couple of lenses, but I liked this shot with the fisheye the best. Even though it makes the moon smaller I like how you get the whole view in at once. I even cropped in a bit to get to just the essentials. I have a shot taken later on from downstairs that has the moon in it shot with my 70-200mm lens. I am sure that will make the blog in the future.
I think that I named the post the way that I did because of everything involved. You have Tim Lincecum pitching to Troy Tulowitzki. You have the bay as a backdrop for this magnificent stadium with a full moon rising. This has to be what heaven is like.
Technical Data
This was a photo that I tweaked in Lightroom for a while. It was meant to be part of a three shot HDR fusion, but I thought that I could get a more realistic result by just tweaking one of the RAW files. In the end I liked the result, but it took a while to get there. The dynamic range of the scene really made it interesting. This was one of the pictures that I wanted when I went to San Francisco. I thought that a sunset would have made the picture, but as it turns out the full moon coming up during the blue hour was just what I wanted.
Blackhawks Win the Stanley Cup!
The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup last night with a furious barrage of goals at the end of the game. If all goes well I will end up in Chicago to make some pictures of the victory parade. The important thing is that the cup is back where it belongs.
Dave Wegiel Photography 