June 5, 2005

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  This is the second Photopost consisting of images taken on my last “photo expedition” to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. I now have three folders online in the Webshots Gallery with images taken on May 28th. I already posted images of “the art observed”on May 31st Photopost. The folders are “The Getty Museum”, “Observing the Art at the Getty” with the complete set of photos from last week’s Photopost, and “Gardens at the Getty” from which I am posting images tonight. The image above is a composite. The cloudscape and the poppies were not in the original photo available here.

  

  This photo has not been edited at all. This photo is in “deep focus” with the camera setting on “mountains”, which means the everything in the photo is in crystal clear focus. If you have ever thought most of the clear images shown on the internet are “so real they look fake” this is why. There is no sense of depth perception in a photo like this.

  

  Okay, here is my recurring “theme” for this particular entry. The bouganvillea “trees” that were quite anemic when I first visited the Getty museum are filling in nicely, and I have used the “bouganvillea trees” as a focal point for my series of “Gardens at the Getty”.

  

  This is the cactus garden. You can’t “walk around” inside the garden, which is only obserbable from the museum balconies. This is a wide angle shot with Century City in the distance.

  

  Here is a close up view of the “bouganvillea trees” which are bouganvillea vines coursing up rebar trellis works. These “artworks” have really blossomed in the past year or so. There are benches on which people can sit under the “bouganvillea trees” and all over the gardens at the Getty.

  

  Here is a view of one of the buildings on the Getty “campus” which is what they call the museum grounds, showing the “bouganvillea trees, and the concrete wall of the fountain. The architecture is as much a work of art as any thing kept within it’s walls. It was designed by Richard Meyer.

  

  Here we have another self consciuosly composed shot of flowers, the architecture, and I haven’t tweaked any of these photos in the picture publisher except the “title card”.

  

  Here we have the “recurring”"bouganvillea trees”, a rosebush, the waterfall and maze, and the north wall of the garden.

  

  Here are a couple of examples of the floral photography. I have all the photos here in the “Gardens at the Getty’ folder on my Webshots Gallery. I can shoot photos like this one in crystal clear focus, with everything so clear the photo looks completely “fake”. An example is HERE on the Webshots Gallery. On this photo, I manually adjuste the image so that the closeup rose is in focus, and the roses behind it are out of focus. This is how the human eye sees, and is why digital photos look fake if they are all in deep focus.

  

  Here is the opposite effect, where the closeup bloom is out of focus, and the background is in focus. This was also shot manually using the digital camera.

  

  Lastly, this is the helipad on the north side of museum. The cactus garden is planted on the opposite circular reference point on the grounds. (Shown above in the fourth photo. Anyone interested in seeing the rest of the photos go on over to the Webshots Gallery and click on “Gardens at the Getty”.

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