Taken on a recent day (actually afternoon-night) trip to Seattle to see family. We needed a bathroom/ice cream break before heading home, so stopped by the waterfront. While Ice Cream was being served I ran out and took this picture. It didn’t turn out quite as well as I hoped, but still pretty good I think.
This is a picture of Mt. Rainier from the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma Washington using my telephoto and extension tube. It’s roughly 40 miles away at this point.
Mt. Rainier is a gorgeous mountain, like many Pacific Northwest icons it’s a dormant volcano. Few other mountains in the region are as obvious about it though.
Digital Photography School posted an awesome article about reducing camera shake. This is actually very timely for me as it’s one of my biggest problems. These are more geared towards people using long lenses, but can be helpful for any photographer.
I’ve been trying to reduce camera shake but find that I seem to get a bit of blur no matter how fast the shutter speed is. Using these techniques which as a commenter on the article said are like shooting a gun, I’m sure that I can increase my stability.
In other news, I promise to actually start posting pictures again.
Space pictures are the best. Due to the lack of an atmosphere the clarity of such pictures always astounds me.
So go to boston.com and enjoy as much as I do!
I’m personally a bit flummoxed by the interest in “street photography”. Maybe I do not see the inherent beauty in it, or perhaps the human element is too puzzling for me.
But Garry Winogrand saw differently. I’d never heard of him until reading this article. His approach to street photography seems pretty chaotic, yet the results he got were awesome.
It seems that with newer point and shoot digital SLRs, this kind of photography should really be taking off. A couple of hundred pictures could easily be taken, more so if you’re shooting with smaller file sizes. Either way it’s something I’m going to have to try.
Sorry I’ve not posted anything in a while. Between being busy at work, and getting Aperture 2 this weekend I’ve not had a lot of time to pull out a photo to post.
Speaking of Aperture 2, I found this site that directly links all of Apple’s training videos directly. It’s located here
or
http://b.e.roth.googlepages.com/aperturevideotutorials
I actually forgot I had this picture. It was taken on a day trip/Picnic up to the Mt. Hood National Forest area in July 06. As can be seen from the picture this is to the South and slightly East about 5 miles of the mountain itself. And is about 1000 feet higher then the typical pictures from Timothy Lake or Clear Lake. Few people come up this way as it’s off on dirt and gravel roads. But the view is well worth it.
During the summer this area is known for it’s huckleberries. But in the winter it’ll be impossible to get here due to the amount of snow. If you look closely you can see the chair lift from Timberline Lodge going up the side.
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Elephants are some of the most amazing animals around. Around the world tourists snap photos, while conservation efforts frantically attempt to save them from extinction. Even the Elephants themselves get in on the conservation efforts, by painting and playing in Orchestras! Fortunately conservation efforts abound locally. There are four herds of elephants within 200 miles of my location at four different Zoos. The first and closest is the Asian Elephant herd at the Oregon Zoo in Portland Oregon. The Oregon Zoo is world renowned for it’s breeding program, having had 27 successful births there.
Digital Photography School posted a short video on taking night photos with digital SLR cameras. Wish I had seen this a couple of nights ago.
The details of the lunar eclipse are explained much better here. Needless to say it was cold, the sky was fairly clear, and I still need more practice with my telephoto lens. And figure out how to tweak the ISO (if possible) for those night shots. Oh, and to get a more stable tripod, although part of the unstableness could have been due to the fact that I was on the top floor of a parking garage.
On the other hand, looking at “pro” photos of the same eclipse (mine aren’t color corrected,) I’m fairly happy with the results.
Larger sizes here.
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