Friday, September 19, 2008

A Wasp (Attempting Macro)

I was playing around (YESTERDAY!!! FINALLY I GOT OUT AND SHOT SOME STUFF!!) with my new macro setup (a cheap DIY kinda deal, a old pentax manual lens mounted reversed on a cheap made-in-china bellows I bought off ebay... It makes for amazing closeups, but hard to get much of anything too sharp, plus results in a super narrow depth of field (normal for macro work i guess...). In any case, it was a lot of fun, and I'll improve.

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HDRish Experiment and Construction Equipment

I went out with Nathan Brough last night and shot some old construction equipment he spotted. This bulldozer looked pretty sweet. It was actually pretty dark, but a 20 second exposure really lightened things up. I was really trying to show the roughness of the blade in this pic, although I don't know if you can really see it.. Anyways, I just really like the right side of the blade...


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I also tried to do some HDR type shots on this high-ho just for fun. Following are some of the actual pictures, followed by the merged version. (I used a Hugin tool rather than a real HDR tonemapper..)

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Rusty and Megan

I went to a wedding photography workshop a last semester and got some really great shots. It was really great to have a pro there to teach us about posing, lighting, and composition. I was recently going through the pictures again to get them ready to give to the modeling couple and thought I would put a couple three up here. My goal is to have this blog be a motivation to get me to go out and shoot more, but so far most of what I have been doing is posting old pictures. At least I'm doing something with my photos... lol...

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Monday, September 15, 2008

Despair.com Laughs

Ha, okay, this really has nothing at all to do with photography, but I was just checking stuff out at www.despair.com and saw a shirt that really made me laugh. Even though I am trying to get more into blogging and using it as a vehicle to improve my photography, I still find the general concept somewhat amusing, and so this shirt really hit home. I think I might buy it. Anyways, here is the logo that was on it.

Lol, the product Description read:
"Never have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few. It's time bloggers knew the sad truth."