Days of Dance

Hey Guys,

Sorry I haven't posted in quite some time. I had some personal things I was dealing with, and wasn't feeling very inspired for a while. But so it goes with these creative outlets I suppose. Anyways, these are some images that I got from a dress rehearsal for one of the Dept of Dance's fall shows.

f10 | ISO 1600 | 70mm | 1 second

f2.8 | ISO 1600 | 105mm | 1/160

f8 | ISO 1600 | 70mm | 0.6 seconds

Pulse

Very Last First Time

This week has a number of firsts for me. To start with I had my first photo session. Which was epically awesome! I got to shoot a house down in Georgia which was interesting.

I also entered into my first photo competition! So I had some 8 x 12's made and, mounted them to foam core. And as a added plus there's going to be a photo gallery in about 2 weeks featuring the winner(s) and all entries. So yeah even if I don't win a thing at least some other person will see my photos.

Lights in a Cave

30 seconds
f/5.6
ISO 100


I really want to try some more of these this week.

Portland Rose Festival 09!

NP and I ventured down to the Rose Festival on Friday night. We had an A-mazing time, taking lots of photos, eating junkie food, meeting new people, getting lost, and having adventures!
Here is a small handful of the photos I took, you can view the rest on my blog. http://timnewmanphotography.blogspot.com/

First shot: tripod mounted, 1/60th at f/5.6 with my 17-50 ISO 100

Second: tripod mounted 1/80th at f/4 ISO 100 w/ the 17-50mm

Third: 2 seconds at f/32 ISO 100 (on a tripod obviously) w/ the 70-200mm

Fourth: 1/800th at f/2.8 ISO 400 at 32mm with the 17-50mm

Fifth: 1/250th at f/4 ISO 200 with the 70-200mm

6th: 1/2500 at f/4 ISO 400 - 70-200mm

Blue Moon

This is an HDR I did of the football stadium the other night.

18mm | f4.5 | ISO 400

I bracketed 5 exposures at 1 stop intervals, then I combined it into an HDR in photoshop.

Adjusted the color levels and saturations in Aperture.

I should be studying for my last final instead of doing this.

I've been driving on the interstate a lot lately for some reason.  I suppose this is my way of entertaining myself in between spurts of dancing to Richard Simmons music.

50mm | f22 | 1 second | ISO 125

50mm | f2.8 | 1/160 | ISO 100

How much wood could a wood chipper chip if a wood chipper could chip wood?

d300 18-70mm f3.5-4.5

27mm | ISO 250 | f22 | 1/20 

They say not to stick your hand in it.

Can you feel the love tonight?

I was recently in downtown Tallahassee in the eve shooting something for the paper, and couldn't help but notice how beautiful the sky was in the 10 minutes between sunset and moonrise.  It brought tears to my eyes.  Figuratively speaking, of course.

Nikon d300 18-70mm f3.5-4.5

50mm | f4.5 | 3 sec | ISO 800

Nikon d300 18-70mm

22mm | 1/5 | f4 | ISO 800

Nikon d300 18-70mm

18mm | 1/6 | f4 | ISO 800

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

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

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

I was wearing a red shirt when I took these.

All these photos were taken with my 17-50 2.8
All except the second one were taken at f/ 2.8 the second one was taken at f/3.2
The shutter speed for all of them was 1/6, the ISO for them all was 400.

Location was my hall way.
Date: 2/13/09

Mighty Kong has woken from his slumber!

Taken in the middle of December on a pitch black road in a forest in Palm Coast.  That's an exaggeration, but not by much.  Photograph was aided by my father, acting as my assistant.

Nikon d50 Quantaray 28-90mm f3.5-5.6

32mm 

f4.5

5 seconds

ISO 800