Steve asked me to join him Saturday morning for a sunrise shoot at Red Rock Canyon.
I spent the thirty minutes prior to sunrise maneuvering around the desert looking for "the shot" and I finally settled on this spot. Its not exactly what I had hoped for, but it turned out okay, I think.
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Labels: desert, explored, HDR, landscapes, Red Rock Canyon
I got a new lens today, a 50mm f/1.8. I wanted to take a step back and approach photography the way I used to when I was a teenager. A zoom lens is nice, but a prime lens forces you to get up and move around. I am hoping the prime will improve my creative vision. (My gawd, I can't believe I just typed this.)
Anyway... fairly low light, so the DoF is shallower than I'd like. At the time, it didn't occur to me to increase the ISO.
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Labels: 50mm, explored, jack russell terrier, portraits
Okay... here's the story... my wife decided to have a party last night. As it was dying down, my next-door neighbor and I we're just kicking back and talking about photography. He knows very little about cameras, so all too often, he'll point out a picture to me and ask me how it was accomplished. While looking at the fountain in the middle of our pool, he wanted to know if I could stop the water in a picture. I said, "It's easy. Just use a flash." He found that hard to believe, so I had to trot out the camera and prove it.
I got a couple of images up high with the drops suspended in air, but they weren't as interesting as the riot down at the surface.
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So... I'm driving along the Garlock road. I see a train in the distance as I pass Goler Road. Do a quick u-turn and get to the crossing. Grab the camera. Aarrrgh... it's set for bracketing. Into the menu, turn off the bracketing and rush towards the tracks. I get one picture with the white balance set to clouds and program is in P-mode. P-mode? I NEVER shoot P-mode. Crap!
Given a bit more time, I think I would have went for a shallower DoF.
Decided to blog this because it made it to "explore" today.
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Sitting here with an icepack on my shoulder thinking about how I'd rather be out shooting. Oh well... there's PhotoShop to play with.
This is quite possibly my best work. And the funny thing is... I pulled it out of a pile of older stuff. Kinda makes me wonder if I have anything else buried on my hard-drive that's worth working on. That, or I just got lucky.
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Labels: copper, desert, explored, landscapes, monochrome, OptikVerve, railroad, Trona Pinnacles
I saw the nest in the morning and then returned when I knew I'd have the afternoon sun and bright light reflecting off the wall. The sunlight enters from the right side. Any light from the left is from the wall.
The bird is nesting on a bicycle frame hanging outside.
The blurry dark band behind it is the tire. If you look closely in her eye, you can see the shadow of the bike.
I was less than two feet away from the bird when I shot this. They're very docile. You can get really close if you move slowly.
I'll try to return in a few weeks when the chicks hatch. That should be an interesting shot.
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Labels: explored, geocaching, HDR, landscapes, photoshop
First whack at HDR imaging. Can't say I like the subject matter at all, but the colors and distant detail surprised me.
Explored on 12/29/06. Ranking
I should add... this is an absolutely horrible attempt at HDR. I've been playing with the camera today and learned that I completely misunderstood what the camera was doing when I selected to bracket the shot. There were three pictures used to generate this image, but they weren't properly bracketed at all.
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