8 Responses to “Brea Canyon Fires, Diamond Bar”

1. Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images
   November 17th, 2008 @ 9:28 am

   Richard:

   Wild pics. Stay Safe. I figured you would be out getting some images when I saw the news reports.

   BTW, Remember my buddy Michael who you met with me in Joshua Tree. He’s now an official CALFIRE photographer.

   These fires can be some seriously dangerous conditions, so again, be safe.

2. Richard Wong
   November 17th, 2008 @ 10:18 am

   Thanks Gary, I left when it started getting scary. Michael has a great gig! He should get those images up on his website.

3. Ron Niebrugge
   November 17th, 2008 @ 11:53 am

   Wow – be safe.

   These fires are really sad – I hate if for those folks in the 500 unit trailer park! We have family in Brea – so far they are ok.

4. Richard Wong
   November 17th, 2008 @ 9:01 pm

   I hope your family will be ok, Ron. I heard on the radio earlier that they re-opened the 57 but I don’t know what came of the fire.

5. bernie kasper
   November 18th, 2008 @ 7:05 am

   Incredible shots Richard, I was wondering how it was affecting you, be very careful out there…Hope they get it under control soon !!

6. Richard Wong
   November 18th, 2008 @ 8:53 pm

   Thanks Bernie. The only affect it really had on me were my eyes since I wear contact lenses. I ended up wearing glasses while out here shooting.

7. Mark Zanzig
   November 26th, 2008 @ 7:30 am

   Awesome pics. Just wondering how much postprocessing you did to achieve these orange/brownish mood of the pics (if any)?

8. Richard Wong
   November 26th, 2008 @ 9:46 am

   Thanks Mark. I didn’t do anything to get the orange / brown colors because the sun was backlighting all of this with diffused light. In some images I had to tone down the yellow to neutralize the cast somewhat. What I also did was adjust the contrast and exposures.

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