Oh Snap!

Canon 350, 50mm f1.8
focal: 50mm
aperture: f4.5
shutter: 1/125 sec
ISO: 100
Genesis 200 camera left

Just thought I'd show the setup.
I stuck two pillows and a sheet on the dining room table as a background.

The Abacus of Fire!

This is an abacus.  It used to help people count before machines did it for them.  Then all the people disappeared, because they couldn't offer anything useful that the machines hadn't already created.

P.S.  I slipped in a post (late as usual) for last thursday, but I fear it has gone unnoticed.  This is your notice.

Nikon d300 Quantaray 70-300 f4-5.6

220mm | f40 | 1.6 sec | ISO 800 

Single light source from the top left corner of the picture

Nikon d300 Quantaray 70-300 f4-5.6

300mm | f40 | 2 sec | ISO 800

Same light, would be from bottom right corner here

dark blue

Two cloud posts in a row =o
before anyone asks, I did not use my polarizing filter ;]

f 6.3
1/1600
ISO 200
18mm

Adjusted curves in gimp for the dramatic blue.
I kinda fell in love with it and couldnt bring myself to change it back xD
AND
just in case you ever wondered what it would be like to have a pink sky...

Just so you all know, I will not be able to post next Wednesday, but I'll get a post in hopefully Saturday or Sunday, or I could just post twice the next week. Im not sure yet, :]

Photo shoot with Abigail!

Ok, lets get down to it.

Image #1
Lens: canon 50mm f/1.8
Exposure: ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/800, F stop f/2.5

Image #2
Lens: canon 50mm f/1.8
Exposure: ISO 100, 1/800th at f/2

Image #3
Lens canon 50mm f/1.8
ISO 100, 1/640 at f/2

Image #4
Lens: I just realized that I shot all of these with my 50mm. So now you know what lens it was, and I don't have to type it in a million times :)
ISO 100, 1/400 at f/3.2

Image #5
ISO 100, 1/320 at f/3.2

Image #6
ISO 100, 1/1000 at f/1.8

Image #7
ISO 100, 1/500 at f/2.8

The phrase that pays

Canon 350, 28-105mm
focal: 28mm
aperture: f13
shutter: 1/30 sec
ISO: 100
time: 4/4/09, 7:33:14 PM
extras: Polarizing filter,
Shot cyanotype in camera, then tweaked in Lr.
Oh, I also did what I think is called a matrix panorama. I went side to side, and up and down. If there's a more technical term let me know.

Cops and Robbers!

These two photos are not related in any way, other than they just both happened to be shot on the same outing.  The former, a photo of a bank of america which was robbed just before (unfortunately, the robbers left before I could take pictures of them) and the latter a picture of the bar that won best bar in tallahassee.  Or something like that.  

Nikon d300 Nikkor DX 18-70 f3.5-4.5

35mm | f4.2 | ISO 250 | 1/1000

Nikon d300 Nikkor DX 18-70

24mm | f8 | ISO 500 | 3 Seconds

cotton candy clouds

f/10
1/400 sec.
ISO-200
18 mm

Just cropped a little and of course adjusted curves in gimp

Nikon D80 with MB-D80 battery grip and Sigma 50mm 1.4 lens

50mm 

f/1.4

1/100 sec

ISO 200

11:00 am

Chary Blossoms!!!

I love when these trees by my house explode with chary blossoms! Their only around for about two weeks, so I've got to get the photos while I can. You can see the ones I took last year on my other blog

camera data:
camera: my camera
Lens: canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Exposure (going from top to bottom) All of these were ISO 100
#1 - 1/500 at f/2.5
#2 - 1/320 at f/2.8
#3 - 1/400 at f/2.2
#4 - 1/1000 at f/2.5
#5 - 1/800 at f/2.5

Exposure mode: AV

Infinity

Canon 350, 18-55mm
focal: 18mm
aperture: f22
shutter: 1/20sec
ISO: 100
time: 3/25/09, 7:16:17 PM
extras: polarizing filter

All right-y then, I sort o' feel like talking.

Lately I've been reading this. So that's why you got the above and this. Before reading the landscape book, I'd never though to shoot landscapes with a super wide aperture. I've also been working on shooting more. When we go out and I do some shooting I'd usually get in around 50 shots. Now I'm pushing 150 -200 per shoot. So yeah I'm happy with that. But what I'm not happy about is the amount of space on my left on my hard drive.

So with that in mind, here's David duChemin's backup solution. I really like his setup, but I've got no where near the amount of cash to set that up. So for now I'll stick with burning my cd's.

Oh, Canon released a new Rebel series camera this week. The new "EOS REBEL T1i." It's Canon's version of Nikon's D90.(You know with video and all.) Which means since I got my XT 1 year and 3months ago, three I repeat 3 rebels series have been released. Plus this puts the Xti and XS on the outs. People are only going to buy the XSi with the live view and now the T1i. Amazon's already got it for pre-order. There's a bunch of other stuff I want to talk about with the T1i but I save it for my blog. :)

Other things of interest:

Tamron's releasing a new wide angle lens. It's gona' be sweet.

McDonald’s sponsoring a new group on Flickr. But you better read that fine print.

Will Tasha Ford finally get her video camera back? Um..yeah, there's three different links. So you can read the whole story.

What, Yahoo's CEO doesn't even use his most popular site?

Zach Arias' a critiquing. Warning you may feel really crudy towards your own photography. I know I did.

If your not reading Dave your missing out on some awesome photo's of NYC.

And if your not following Chase Jarvis on twitter or facebook. Do it.

And this...this is just unexplainable.

Singing in the rain

It rained all day here today.  And I forgot to bring my umbrella to school.  So I got re-wet as I walked to each class.  4 times.

Aside from that, I shot a dress rehearsal for a dance concert tonight, and

 was quite pleased with the resulting chemistry between my camera and the wonderful people on stage.  They just clicked.  I didn't even see that pun coming, so I doubt any of you did.

Nikon d300 Sigma 70-200 f2.8

f2.8

170mm

1/200

ISO 1250

Nikon d300 Nikkor DX 18-70 f3.5-4.5 

f18

5" exposure

ISO 2500

Focal Length...started at 70, and then zoomed out to 18 throughout the exposure

Nikon d300 Nikkor DX 18-70 f3.5-4.5

f4.5

56mm

1/160

ISO 1600

Earth to Project Pentad, come in Project Pentad

Where is everyone? :[

anywaysss

I wasnt really sure which one to choose xD
so if you want to see the other ones you'll have to head over to my photography blog because im posting them there.

Exif:
f stop - f/3.5
Exposure - 1/60
Iso - 400
focal length - 18mm
cropped, sharpened and yes, curved in gimp xD
i couldnt resist.

A Beach. With Clouds.

Wow guys, sorry for the absence.  Tim and I were both at the beach for the weekend.  We've got pictures, which I'm sure some of you have seen on Facebook.  We'll have photos up on our respective blogs.  So don't worry, we are alive.  
Nikon D80 w/ MB-D80 battery grip + Sigma 50mm f/1.4

Both:1/1250 sec

f/5.6

50mm

ISO 100

I used Brian's paper texture for these.  The clouds were naturally that dark.  

Pshaw

Happy first day of spring!

Canon 350, 28-105mm
focal: 83mm
aperture: f4.5
shutter: 1/1000 sec
ISO: 100
time: 3/19/09,12:44:36 PM
location: Taken below the Chickamauga Dam
Converted to B/W

Dive Bomb

So, epic fail on my part.  I was in Utah last week for spring break, and it hit me on Saturday that my day had come and gone.  I figured I would do it on Sunday when I got back, and then I got stuck in Atlanta airport for 6 hours and forgot about it again until Tuesday, at which point I figured I had pretty much missed the bus.  Excuses aside, here are several photos from the aforementioned trip last week.

Photo #1 was a panorama I put together from 4 different shots of the view from the top of a mountain I climbed.

All 4 had the same exposure

Nikon d300 Nikkor 18-70 DX f3.5-4.5

ISO 250

f22

1/250

18mm

Stitched together in photoshop

#2 Nikon d300 Nikkor 18-70 DX f3.5-4.5

ISO 250

f16

1/200

18mm

#3 (Algae on a rock) Nikon d300 Quantaray 70-300 f4-5.6

ISO 250 

f16

1/200

300mm (macro on)

And thenceforth I bid you all adieu

Reid

just another brick in the wall

And all of a sudden I was like OHSNAP
and this happened.

cuz the bricks were white on the cd/movie.
get it? xD
and pink, because...
well.
Pink Floyd.
it was just for fun :] so i know its not very good but it had to be done. :P
i should have layered the pink over the sky instead or something. and then changed the opacity a little so it was less fake looking but im too lazy to go re-do the stupid thing. its my bed time :P


I wish I had a brick wall in my house somewhere.
the possibilities would be endless.
then id post 405849058 pictures of brick walls xD


ANYWAYS

EXIF:

f stop = f/10
exposure = 1/200
ISO = 400
Focal length = 18mm

then for the first one i did the usual curves and sharpening. i know everyone (including me) always posts old looking pictures like that but i like the affect it gives xD i dont know. i need to break my addiction to curves :P
anyways
for the second one i inverted the color and messed around with curves
then since the sky was all one color i dropped in some pink and smudged the edges of the building so it looked better. ish. lol.

Flower Prettyness

Nikon D80 with Sigma 50mm 1.4
top: f/2.5 1/60 sec ISO 100
bottom: f/1.6 1/125 sec ISO 100
4:45 pm friday
photoshop: local contrast added with high pass filtering, warmed, saturation boosted

Josh

(Josh likes to run)

Canon rebel xti
Canon 580 ex II speedlite at 1/4th power shot through umbrella
Model: Josh
Lens: Tamron 17-50mm 2.8
ISO: 100
Multiple different exposures (I don't really want to list them all down)

Phoenix

Canon 350, 28-105mm
focal: 38mm
aperture: f4.0
shutter: 1/100
ISO: 100
time: 3/13/09, 4:24:38 PM

Yeah I know.

its too late to apologize

BUT IM SORRY xD
I totally forgot it was my day.
Last night I was laying in bed trying to sleep, it must have been like 12. (I started reading at night to try and make me sleepy cuz I'm this weird sleeping pattern right now, lol) and it hit me. Literally in the middle of the night, lol. (weird how that happens...) And I went something like OH CRAP ITS WEDNESDAY in my head and I couldnt sleep because it was bugging me. because I didnt even think about it all day. It was sad.
xD

So yeah. :]
Anyways, EXIF info:
(what does that stand for anyways?)

Exposure: 1/20
f-stop: f/9
ISO: 200
Focal Length: 42mm
and flash did go off, but its at the lowest setting, and so did my spiffy new lights :D
When i use my lights I HAVE to use Manual mode so its kind of dragging me out of my shell which is obviously a good thing :P
And I sharpened in gimp and used one of my programmed curve settings that I creatively titled "yellowy" xD Im a genius