My Boston Trip
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Terry Reinert in Photography
I had to go up to Boston last weekend for business and decided to go up a day early so I could walk around the city with my camera. My friend Hali Sowle from Rhode Island drove up for the day to play tour guide for me. I am so glad that she did too because I wouldn’t have seen nearly as much as I had if it weren’t for her leading the way. I didn’t actually keep track but from estimating using Google Maps I would say that we walked at least 8 miles. I ended up with 360 images but since almost all of them were shot in 3-shot bracket mode I really only took 120 images. That ends up being 15 images per mile or 13 images per hour (we were out for 9 hours – but that includes lunch and dinner time when we weren’t shooting).
As you can see in the Google Map screen shot above, we went through the major part of the city, walked over the bridge into Cambridge so I could see MIT, and then back over to the Government Center for sunset, and then into the north end for dinner. Way back when I was a physics major I wanted to go to MIT so I couldn’t miss the opportunity to see the campus and buy a MIT hat. That whole area of the country is absolutely beautiful. Sure, there are parts that aren’t all that stellar (like some of the alleyways that double as public restrooms) but for the most part the scenery is great. I missed the time period when the leaves were really multicolored but there were still some great colors to be seen.
If you go to Boston and take the time to go around the city and see things I will give you one extremely important piece of advice… Boston is not bathroom friendly! If a place actually has a bathroom, they probably won’t let you use it. When there is a bathroom available, it is most likely down two flights of stairs in a dark basement. If you are like me and drink a lot of water and soda… it would be very wise of you to stop hydrating a few hours before you go out so that you’re not going to be searching for bathrooms every few hours. Just take some water along with you and drink a little at a time so you don’t dehydrate though.
Boston Skyline View from Government Center at Sunset
MIT Student Studying Outdoors on Sunday
Choir Practice in Trinity Church
In The Park
Reading in the Park
All images were shot using a Canon 5D, Giottos MT8260 tripod, FOBA Mini-Superball head, and either a Canon 24-105mm or Canon 17-35mm L lens. All of them are HDR images created from 3 exposures taken at +/- 2EV, merged in Adobe Photoshop CS4, Tone mapped in Photomatix Pro, and then post processed using Adobe Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS4.
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Hali
14. Nov, 2009
Had an awesome time on Sunday, that was a lot of walking we did. Boston is notoriously bathroom unfriendly, actually much of Massachusetts is, many McD’s and such will not let you use a restroom unless you buy something – but the “experience” of Fanueil hall is never complete without a trip to the subterranean bathrooms
. Glad you enjoyed your time up here, those are some great HDR’s, I particularly like the Trinity Church one. Hopefully I’ll get to working on mine soon.
Terry Reinert
14. Nov, 2009
I am so glad you were able to come up. I would have really missed out if you hadn’t. Hell, I would have missed out on that sunset opportunity that landed my best shot of the day! That and it was just great seeing you again. Next time I will drive down to RI and we can do some tactical shooting so Mike can come with us.
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