An Old Skyline

[AlanLichty]

Yesterday @Bill Richards and @JimFox were discussing their respective locations in San Diego for shooting the Super Blue Moon and I mused over the alignment of Bill's shot of a building I used to work in back in 2001. The skyline of downtown San Diego has changed pretty dramatically since I was down there and I decided to see if I had a photo looking out of the One America Plaza building back towards Harbor Island where Bill and Jim were shooting.

I was still shooting film back at that point in time but had started carrying around an early version of a digital camera in the form of an Olympus C2100UZ. Those of us in the telecommunications world were early adopters of the digital cameras to grab shots of remote communications facilities that could later be used as an aid while directing workers at those facilities with installation and troubleshooting tasks. I decided to use mine for some snapshots of the views we had from our offices on the 12th floor of One America Plaza.

Needless to say quite a few things have changed with this view since June of 2001. Harbor Island is just about in the center on the right hand side of the frame with the Sheridan looming large on the island.

Lots of salvage work with the scene above from the 2MP original capture shot through a smoked glass window.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Alan, that's so cool you found this.

That's funny too about you having that Olympus to start dabbling in digital while you were still using film, I did the same thing. I had recognized digital was the future, so I picked up an Olympus too so I could start dabbling in a digital workflow to prepare for my eventually getting a DSLR.

 

[AlanLichty]

Hey Alan, that's so cool you found this.

That's funny too about you having that Olympus to start dabbling in digital while you were still using film, I did the same thing. I had recognized digital was the future, so I picked up an Olympus too so I could start dabbling in a digital workflow to prepare for my eventually getting a DSLR.

Thanks Jim - I started out using a Nikon Coolpix 800 but grabbed the Olympus after a guy I was working with got one since it had a 10x optical zoom lens. It was hard to justify going completely digital as I had a Nikon Coolscan 4000 to scan my slides from a Canon EOS Elan using Fuji Velvia 25 and the digital cameras weren't pushing that kind of resolution yet. If I recall correctly I was using SilverScan as software for the slides and Photoshop as my digital darkroom on an IBM Thinkpad laptop. It would be another year after the scene above was shot before I picked up a Canon D60 (6MP) and closed the book on film.