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Santa Barbara 50th Anniversary Party
07 08 09 10 February 2013

These are snaps from our trip to Santa Barbara to celebrate Noni and Pops' 50th wedding anniversary.

I brought my Fuji X100 and my iPhone 5, and that was it.The Fuji X100 is marvelous for vacations: it doesn't weigh anything around my neck all day, it's always ready to shoot, and the images look fantastic in any light due to the marvelous built-in flash and magnificent highlight and shadow handing, care of Fuji's magic sensor and its AUTO DYNAMIC RANGE function, which I also always used. The Auto Dynamic Range function often reduces exposure to capture full highlight detail, which then shows up as ISO 800 even in broad daylight. Once set as I outline below, I just shot the X100 and it did all the calculations for flash and exposure and everything, This is good. Katie brought her pink VTech 1227 KIdizoom camera.

ALL IMAGES WERE SHOT HAND-HELD.

I shot my X100 in MEDIUM NORMAL JPG, AUTO White Balance, 1/125 Auto ISO, Professional (a.k.a. Program) mode, and HIGH color.

All photos are with the built-in flash ON unless marked "no flash." That's what's so great about the X100; it's flash almost always makes the picture better regardless of the lighting.

I used iView Media Pro 3.1.3 to identify and losslessly rotate all my JPGs. I then sorted the images in Phase One Media Pro. I would have rotated the images in Phase One Media Pro, but it's pretty flaky doing rotations, so I've given up and now do it in iView Media Pro 3.1.3 first.Once selected, I formatted the images them for publication in Photoshop CS6. Most shots were processed with the Perfectly Clear plug-in at its default settings. The colors you see here are what came out of the X100 as JPG and clicked-through the Perfectly Clear plug-in, no fiddling needed.

I then created these pages and uploaded it all in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 from 2006 on Mac OS 10.6.8.

 

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Katie plays Auto Bingo for the first time, 12:29 PM

Katie plays Auto Bingo for the first time, 12:29 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 800, f/2.4 at 1/180, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Ryan's McDonald's toy is dressed like him! 2:16 PM, Agoura Hills

Ryan's McDonald's toy is dressed like him! 2:16 PM, Agoura Hills. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 800, f/9 at 1/680, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Ryan and Katie Check out the Waterfall by Rodney's Steakhouse. 3:30 PM.

Ryan and Katie Check out the Waterfall by Rodney's Steakhouse. 3:30 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 800, f/3.6 at 1/240, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Katie scored a free flower fro the florist who was setting up the big arrangement in the lobby, 3:30 PM.

Katie scored a free flower from the florist who was setting up the big arrangement in the lobby, 3:30 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 800, f/3.2 at 1/170, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Palms

Palms, 3:58 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 800, f/10 at 1/640, no flash, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Katie's anniversary card to Noni and Pops, 4:27 PM

Katie's anniversary card to Noni and Pops, 4:27 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/125, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Ryan signs an anniversary card to Noni and Pops, 4:25 PM.

Ryan signs an anniversary card to Noni and Pops, 4:25 PM. (iPhone 5, no flash, AUTO ISO 500, f/2.4 at 1/15, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Ryan's signed anniversary card to Noni and Pops, 4:27 PM

Ryan's signed anniversary card to Noni and Pops, 4:27 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/125, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Katie flying from bed to bed, 4:35 PM.

Katie flying from bed to bed, 4:35 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 1,000, f/2 at 1/125, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Palms and Bird of Paradise, 4:35 PM.

Palms and Bird of Paradise, 4:35 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 250, f/11 aperture-priority at 1/125, flash off, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Some of Noni and Pops' anniversary loot, 5:18 PM

Some of Noni and Pops' anniversary loot, 5:18 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/38, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Noni and Pops, 5:18 PM.

Noni and Pops, 5:18 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/34.)

 

Noni and Pops, 5:24 PM

Noni and Pops, 5:24 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 800, f/2 at 1/140, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Yummy wine, 5:28 PM

Yummy wine, 5:28 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/42.)

 

Pool, 6:11 PM

Pool, 6:11 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 800, f/2.5 at 1/2, no flash, Perfectly Clear.)

 

El Paseo, 6:34 PM.

El Paseo, 6:34 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/58, no flash, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Ryan at El Paseo, 6:34 PM.

Ryan at El Paseo, 6:34 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/34, no flash, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Noni and Katie at El Paseo, 6:35 PM.

Noni and Katie at El Paseo, 6:35 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/26, no flash, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Aldo's Italian Restaurant, 6:37 PM.

Aldo's Italian Restaurant, 6:37 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/75, no flash, Perfectly Clear.) We heard them advertised on KDB radio, and had to check it out. It was delicious!

 

Heater at Aldo's Italian Restaurant, 6:38 PM

Heater at Aldo's Italian Restaurant, 6:38 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/30, no flash, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Inside Aldo's Italian Restaurant, 6:59 PM

Inside Aldo's Italian Restaurant, 6:59 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/90, no flash, Perfectly Clear.)

 

Noni and Pops at Aldo's Italian Restaurant, 6:59 PM

Noni and Pops at Aldo's Italian Restaurant, 6:59 PM. (Fuji X100, AUTO ISO 3,200, f/2 at 1/30, flash, Perfectly Clear.)

 

That's all for today. NEXT ->> Friday

 

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