Archive for the ‘Still Life’ Category:
Tabasco Cat
This image was from our attempts to get some video in the harbor just across from the San Diego airport. Once the sun went down, the lights from the city made the most beautiful color swatches across the harbor – and I quickly reverted from video back to stills and started shooting. I’ve got a great looking panoramic from this same shoot – which I’ll post at some point in the future.
One major technical challenge to this shot was not getting too much motion blur on the boats. It’s a four second exposure – it has to be really calm before a boat won’t move during the four seconds the shutter is open. I got lucky with this one – most of the other shots are pretty blurry due to waves.
Vital Stats: Canon 5D Mark II w/Canon 70-200 f/4L @ 70mm ISO 400, f/8, 4 sec.
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Three Hundred Rocks
Yeah, I know. There are a lot less than 300 rocks here. It’s so named because I gave it the ’300′ look (from the movie) using Adobe Lightroom. Truthfully, I’m not that into macro photography. To kill time after a mediocre shoot, we started pointing the cameras down just to see if we get any keepers. Lucky for us – there were! These are beach rocks from First Beach, Olympic National Forest.
Vital Stats: Canon 40D w/Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 @ 50mm. ISO 100, f/22, 5 sec.
Valentines Day Bouquet
If you are curious – this is what calling a floral design studio and requesting “Modern Valentine” as a style. The studio in question is Wisteria in Minneapolis – and it was a big hit (as is all of their work) with the missus.
Nothing fancy from a photo perspective – slap on a 50mm, open it to f/1.8 and fire away. The post processing was done in Lightroom applying a filter to give it this look.
Vital Stats: Canon 5D Mark II w/Canon 50mm f/1.8II. ISO 640, f/1.8, 1/60 sec.
Checkmate
This picture was taken on a trip to Sonoma, CA on our one year anniversary. We stayed at a great resort with gardens everywhere right in Sonoma – and this larger-than-life chess set was right on the grounds. This was one of the first sets of pictures taken with our mutual anniversary present – a spiffy new Canon Rebel XT.
Vital Stats: Canon Rebel XT w/Canon 50mm f/1.8 II, ISO 100, f/2.0, 1/2000 sec.
Tutti Frutti
There is an old photographic adage – if something is colorful, take a picture of it! It’s hard to get much more colorful than the selection of ice cream at this coffee shop near Orlando, FL. We were on a walk to check out the small downtown area of Windermere, FL when we stopped for a quick refreshment. Three hours later, I was on a flight home.
Vital Stats: Canon 5D Mark II w/Canon 17-40 f/4L @ 32mm ISO 400, f/10.0, 1/20 sec.
Ride the Cyclone!
This is a low angle balls-eye view of my gone-but-not-forgotten Williams Cyclone pinball machine. I took it as part of an aborted “Project 365″ attempt where I’d theoretically take a picture every day for a year. I lasted 10 days. This also was an attempt at using Live View on the 40D, with the focal point being the ghost target.
Vital Stats: Canon 40D w/Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens. ISO 400, f/16, 1/3sec. Obviously, a tripod (Manfrotto 190XPROB) was used!