Posts Tagged ‘Robinson Preserve’

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…)

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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Robinson Preserve Grand Opening

Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Robinson Preserve

A lake near the entrance to Robinson Preserve

They opened a new nature preserve in Bradenton today, so I got myself up out of bed nice and early (and by early, I mean 8:00 AM.  This is Summer time, folks) and made my way over to the grand opening, and met up with a friend, Farrah.  It was quite the speech-giving occasion, with all the county commissioners there to give their own special insights about the preserve, which is pretty big and mightily awesome, but probably not worth quite as much lip-service as they gave it.

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