About

WELCOME TO FOGPHOTO.COM, my name is Ramsey and I’m an amateur photographer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. This web site is a collection of photographs I’ve recently taken. Photography has been a hobby of mine for about five years now and I have been photoblogging for nearly as long. Other hobbies of mine include running and travel.

I was drawn to photography as a natural extension of my work, graphic design. My first blog, FogBay.com was a 1,000-post look at the Bay Area’s unique sights, people, and history. Photos from FogBay have been featured in a number of web sites including the UK Guardian and San Francisco Chronicle newspapers. Fogbay.com is still available for viewing online.

After five years of working on FogBay.com I decided it was time to create a broader photography web site. FogPhoto.com is the result of that effort. Here I present photographs not just from the San Francisco Bay Area but from my travels as well. The Fog Photo brand mark on this web site is an adaptation of an old German travel photographer’s symbol from the 1930s. Sadly, I don’t actually have a camel, pith helmet, or giant mustache.

I hope you enjoy the web site. If you have any thoughts about the photos here I would love to read your comments and if you enjoy the site please pass the site address along to your friends.

Thanks for visiting,

ramsey@fogphoto.com

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EQUIPMENT
Cameras: a Canon 40D digital SLR, a Canon PowerShot SD850 IS Digital ELPH, and a Holga 120N film camera. Equipment for the SLR camera includes a Canon 28-135mm lens, a Canon 70-300mm lens, a Tamron 18-200mm lens, a Tamron 18-50mm lens, a Tokina 11-16mm lens, a Canon 50mm lens, and a Canon 430EXII External flash unit. Film for Holga: Ilford HP5 ISO 400/27 black and white. Other equipment includes a Manfrotto tripod, monopod, and ballhead adaptor as well as a Joby Gorillapod. Equipment cases and slings are from LowePro.

WORKFLOW
Photos are captured on SanDisk Compact Discs and downloaded to a Macintosh computer where they are backed up via Adobe Time Machine onto multiple Western Digital hard drives. The images are first organized and reviewed in Adobe CS5 Bridge. Images are then processed using Adobe CS5 Raw and eventually Adobe CS5 Photoshop. Other software used includes Nik Viveza 2 and Silver Efex Pro, Digimarc Watermark, and Alien Skin Bokeh. Blogging software from WordPress.org, customized template is Thesis by DYI Themes, site hosted by 1&1.

RECOMMENDATIONS
Books: Adobe Camera Raw by Rob Sheppard, Within the Frame by David duChemin, The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman, The Moment it Clicks by Joe McNally, and Scott Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop, and Building a WordPress Blog by Scott McNulty. Photographers: Too many to list including many photobloggers as well as professionals but my favorites include the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau.

COPYRIGHTS
Copyright © 2005-2010 FogBay.com all rights reserved. The photographs and graphics in FogPhoto.com and FogBay are subject to all U.S. and international copyright laws. No image may be reproduced, copied, stored, manipulated or used whole or in part of a derivative work without the written permission of FogPhoto.com. Please contact me to license or use the images.