297/365 - Jim - The Mellon Institute Building

( f/2.8 24mm 1/10 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

On my way through Oakland, I stopped to take some pictures at one of my favorite photo destinations. The Mellon Institute building is something I saw in a photo many years ago and found out how close it was to me, so I went to reproduce the photo. I have been there 4 or 5 times now and I still love the photos I get. It was getting dark, so there wasn't much light to work with. I enhanced this photo with Lightroom to brighten and give it somewhat of an HDR look.

033/365 - Jim - Layered Texture

( f/9 75mm 1/320 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Theme is texture. I read about a method of taking photos of textures and then overlaying them onto photos. So what I did was take a picture of the back side of a leather belt. Then did a multiple exposure of the texture along with this photo of the Mellon Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. This produced an old weathered looking photograph. I could have done this in a graphics program with layers and toned down the texture in the center which would have given it a better look probably, but you get the point. This is the first time I have tried this and I like the effect, so I'll probably try it again sometime.