Where has he gone?

The short answer is … crazy!

I’ve been taking shots for folks at their request, and that has tied up a lot of my time. A lot of these shots are of grandkids, daughters, daughter’s friends, and such. These folks have not wanted to have their shots posted in a public forum, and I have been happy to honor their requests. But that has limited what I have availible to publish.

That is done for the most part, and I will be back to taking shots from around here soon enough. I’ll be boring you again before you know it!

All That Jazz

I’ve been taking shots of just anything around the house so that I can have images to process into Aperture. It seems to make more sense to learn to use the software with my own images than it does with a bunch of canned samples.

For this shot, I tossed the cases of a bunch of my jazz CDs on the bed and started shooting. Then when it came time to process these shots, the thought came to process them as greenish monochromes rather than black and whites or sepias.

More Fireworks

After going through the shots from the city fireworks show, there were more keepers than I’d originally thought there were. So there’s a new page listed up top … ‘4th of July Fireworks’.

Take a look! It’ll make you go “oooooooo … ahhhhhhhhhhhh …..” all over again.

Happy 4th of July, Everyone

55mm, f/5.6, ISO 100, Shutter 4.2 seconds

Chasing Scorpio

I tried to shoot star trails last week, but it was a little hazy. Last night was much better. Once the tripod was set up and facing the southern sky, the first thing visible was Scorpio. This is a 30 minute exposure.

32mm, f/5, ISO 100, 30 minutes

You Can’t See Me

There he was this morning, sitting in the window, watching something play in the yard (probably a bird). I decided I wanted to end up with an old timey grainy black and white feel, so I cranked up the ISO to 400 for the shot.

Then I waited patiently for his tail to stop twitching …

55mm, f/5.6, ISO 400, Shutter 1/250

Black and White Magnolia

It was suggested that the magnolia shot be converted to black and white, and that seemed like a great opportunity to try working with black and white conversions in Aperture 2. I don’t know that I quite have it down yet, but there’s definitely more flexibility here than there is with iPhoto.

Hard Work

I saw this little guy working diligently in the front flower beds.

200mm, f/5.6, ISO 100, Shutter 1/160, Shot RAW and edited in Aperture 2.

On The Road

No, I’m not Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady isn’t in the passeger seat. But it was dark enough that folks had their headlights on, while at the same time there was just enough light out to keep the shutter open for just a second or so.

I attempted to focus on the point where the broken yellow line becomes a double yellow line, and waited for someone to come my way … all while trying to keep my car on my side of the road. I had looped around twice with no luck, and was about to give up when someone came down the road.

55mm, f/4, ISO 100, 1.1 sec. Shot RAW and edited in Aperture 2.

Soft Tiger

I was playing around with softer focused shots the other night, using one of the cats as a subject. Apparently he got a little tired of being a model.

Or maybe he was just ready to make the transition from naptime to bedtime.

Its a hard, hard life being one of our cats.

165mm, f/5.3, ISO 400, Shutter 0.675