Posts Tagged ‘photography’

Robinson Preserve Again

Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Bird in a Tree

I found this little guy sitting on a tree on the way out

I got to make another trip to Robinson Preserve a couple of days ago, this time with a friend specifically to go photographing.  I only shot with my 70-200 f/4 this time, and it turned out surprisingly well, for the short focal length.  Hopefully next time, though, I’ll have access to a 400 f/5.6 again, which will give me an awfully better view of the wildlife.  In the meantime, I made do well enough at 200mm, just had to be a little bit sneaky with the assorted creatures (birds, mostly).  And, of course, there was a little bit of cropping involved in post processing, but I guess that’s just the way it goes sometimes. (more…)

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5D Mark II

Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Grandpa

A quick portrait of my grandpa. The detail in the full-size image is unbelievable.

My grandpa got a copy of Canon’s 5D Mk II lately, and I got a chance to play around with it.  It’s truly difficult to describe just how incredible this thing is.  It does ISO 25,600, and does it better than my 20D does 3200.  That, with 21 megapixels of resolution, incredible detail, and an utterly spectacular field of view and depth of field, just make for an unbelievable camera.  I’d love to pick one up myself, but of course it’s a little cost prohibitive.

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Second Anniversary

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Us

Danielle and I

So I’ve been dating Danielle for two years now, and got to come back to Bradenton for a couple days for the occasion.  Hung out for a while today, and then went to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner.  Of course they had to pick March 4th to have their 2 for 1 entree special, so we got a nice long wait, but all was well: some bunnies were munching in a retention bond nearby, so we had something to watch during the wait.

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The Joys of Incident Metering, and the Continued Awesomeness of Robinson Preserve

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Park Portrait

A shot in front of the pond. Lit by an SB-25 in a shoot-through umbrella to camera left, and a bare gelled SB-26 to camera right, for hairlight

Got a light meter recently, and I must say, incident metering is absolutely, immensely awesome.  I can now just stick the meter right up in someone’s face and get a perfect exposure straight-off: no chimping or guessing.  And as an added bonus, it even tells you how much of the exposure is made up by flash and ambient.  So, new meter in hand, I took a trip out to the recently opened Robinson Preserve, to give it a little test run, and have fun in the park, of course.

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Photographing A Telephone

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I recently got myself a new Neo Freerunner, the second generation cell phone from Openmoko.  The phone itself is awesome, and I’m working on a post about it at the moment, but that’s going to take a while, as it’s going to be big (there seems to be a lack of actual reviews of the phone on the Internet, so I figure I’ll just write one myself).  In the meantime, since such a blog post demands a good photograph, I decided to make one, and since the next post could be a little while coming, I’ve decided to make one about the photograph itself.  If you’re into that kind of thing, take a look at the rest of the post.  For the less photo-nerdy among us, be warned: this could get a little boring.

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