As my faithful reader knows I decided to sell some prints of my images to raise money for charity. I did this with much trepidation but decided that the chance of adding to the Common Good was more important than any discomfort I felt with selling the photos. I had a few internal arguments: What [more]
As my loyal follower will know I have been slowly out growing the performance of my trusty Canon XTi camera. It is not a bad camera it just has some limitations that I have started butting up against. The items that have been hampering me have been slow focus, slow shooting pace, noisy ISO, and [more]
My work requires that I travel quite often and with lots of electronics, no I am not a professional photographer I just play one on the Internet. Just for reference my airport security checkpoint process typically takes four bins to get everything separated as needed. I have found that it is possible to travel with [more]
I was experimenting looking for different subjects. I found this vent. I wanted to experiment with the various shades of the vent. I think that it came out pretty well, as it is the original colors. Date Taken: 2012-04-03 20:07:07 Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi Exposure Time: 0.005s (1/200) Aperture: f/13 ISO: 100 Focal [more]
I wanted to expirment with the golden hours of light. After being at work way too late before Daylight Saving Time, I figured I would go out and about and see what I could capture. I drove by the defunct “American Countryside” Farmer’s Market at lunch and thought it would be a good subject at some [more]
I wanted to experiment with flash and in situation items. I saw this candle in our guest room. I decided that between the orange wall and the teak top, it was going to be a little challenging. I learned about the difference between using a diffuser on the flash and bouncing it off the white [more]
I wanted to experiment with capturing the curves of the chrome blender I have on the bar. I found it very challenging to balance the amount of flash versus the chrome and getting a bounce back. I still did some post processing to bring the image back to life but still not happy. Also if [more]
The wife suggested I try getting some of the lines of her purse. I liked the idea of seeing how I could handle the contrast. I am pretty happy with it. I am still a little frustrated with not getting it straight out of the camera and needing to crop & rotate but I checked [more]
The light coming off the candle caught my eye. I took some shots while the sun was still out and I was not very happy with the outcome. So I waited until it was darker and took this shot with the lights off. It is just ambient light from the candle. I thought about running [more]
I just wanted a fun shot. So I decided to play with flash and depth of field with one of the frogs I have. He is now hanging out on my desk helping to keep the trackpad from moving, every so often he does the same thing for the mouse. He is a lot denser [more]