Skip Kuebel Photography

Rusted Truck and Tractor , a photo by skip.kuebel on Flickr. On a trip to Pendleton, Oregon I passed through a small town with some great abandoned buildings and old rusty farm equipment out in the fields. I shot some of these and you can see this shoot on my Flickr site . These were shot with the Canon 40D and brought into Lightroom v.5 for color correction, cropping and other basic fixes, then into Photoshop CC for spot removal and tilt-shift blur, then a pass through Nik software where I put my special mix of filters. Then a little noise reduction and then a tad bit of sharpening and this is the outcome. Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net

Yacht in Autumn , a photo by skip.kuebel on Flickr. A large yacht docked at the Delta Marina in Rio Vista, California with autumn trees in the background. Photo was processed with On One filters and NIK software. Stored and cropped and basic set-up was done in Adobe Lightroom. Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net

Low Tide on Tomales Bay , a photo by skip.kuebel on Flickr. Low tide at Tomales Bay in Marin county. Known for their great fresh oysters among other things this was shot at Nick's Cove. The bottom picture is a man shucking oysters at Hog Island Oyster Company, just south of Nick's Cove. View more photos at my Flickr page. Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net

Painted Bungalows , a photo by skip.kuebel on Flickr. Sunset on the beach in Capitola, California with brightly painted beach bungalows in the foreground. I've been in a tilt-shift mode lately and here is another example. It makes the highlighted buildings look like miniature models like you would see on a model train set-up. Visit my Flickr site to see these images at full size. Happy New Years! Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net

Golden Gate Bridge , a photo by skip.kuebel on Flickr. Here is the magnificent Golden Gate Bridge shot from the west side above Baker Beach on the hiking trail. Had to go underneath the toll plaza and hike past  WWII Godfrey Battery to get this view. I shot this with my Canon 40D and the post-processed it using Lightroom for basic color balancing, cropping and so on, then a quick trip to the Nik software plug-in to cross-process the color, then a touch of glamour glow and finished off with lighten/darken center. Then into Photoshop to do some minor touch-ups and then used the tilt-shift blur filter. Back to Nik to use the auto noise reduction and then sharpened up the middle portion a tad. Check out more of my GG Bridge pictures at my Flickr site to see the pictures at full size and resolution. Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net

Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net  A family portrait of my tennis buddy Yoshi and his wife and 3 month old baby girl. We shot some pictures at the Bollinger fountain in San Ramon and then went over to Central Park to get these photographs. The trees were great the lighting was beautiful the family was into it, the only problem was the wind was blowing about 30 mph! But we pushed on with a few breaks for the little one to warm back up. Here are two shots from the day. If you want to see the rest you can view them on my Flickr site.

IMG_5724.jpg , a photo by skip.kuebel on Flickr. I was scouting locations for an upcoming family portrait session and realized that California is always knocked for not having any seasons. I know it ain't New England in the fall, but still not too bad right? This is the fountain in San Ramon. Maybe the saving grace is that it's 72º with no snow! Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net