Just enjoying photography without thinking too hard...

Taken at Mt. Rainier, Paradise Glacier Trail on Monday, October, 18, 2010

Autumn red carpet

Magenta Paintbrush is hardy!

Cloud disguise

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Kathleen Eussen - Hidden Falls

Several small falls near the main falls. I have been to the Park many times over the years and never noticed the smaller falls until I viewed them through the camera. I chose this picture because I liked the stop action.

Next time I visit the falls, I will continue to practice shutter speed, f stops and metering. I am not sure what I would change, at this time, if I do this again.

Camera settings:

Metering: spot

Shutter speed: 1/250

Aperture: f/4.8

Focal length 116 mm

Leigh Ann

F/14, 250 and ISO 200.

Take 26 children and give them all a ball to throw. Then try to adjust aperture, ISO, shutter speed and add some bracketing. I have an ever growing appreciation for photographers.

Mary Kutch- Bright & Shiny Berries

I've passed these outside the YMCA often, but today the sun was really making them pop! Spot metering made the berries in the foreground most dramatic. (Aperture priority (f/9,) ISO 100, shutter 1/100s using Nikon D3000 outside Briggs Community YMCA in bright afternoon sun.)

GLORY....Jennifer

Beneath the surface

I chose this image because of the frozen drops in the upper left - so shiny and bright and the moss beneath the smooth surface along the top of the dam - so dark yet colorful.

Alison -Blur and Motion - Playing with Shutter Speed

Shutter speed 1/30    F 18  
ISO 800     200mm
Though I don't think either of these are technically great photos I liked them for what I was working on. Both were shot at Tumwater Falls on Saturday. Since I didn't have a tripod I braced against the rail as best as I could. After watching this seagull for a very long time, I was finally able to predict when he would take off. I was happy to be able to show motion in the wings as I didn't have any shots last week that showed motion very well at all. It's time to invest in a tripod!

Shutter speed 1/2    F32  
ISO280      180mm
I liked this shot because I have always wanted to know how to blur the water like that. The very slow shutter speed gave so much blur to the water it looks more like wispy clouds. The white spot on the right is way overexposed, but I think it balances the dark of the rock. Not sure how I came out with a reading of 280 on the ISO?

Timothy - Fountain on Market

Being in a new city always makes me look more closely at my surroundings. St Louis, MO offered a multitude of opportunities to work with bracketing. To choose one pic out of 350+ was not easy.

This large fountain was photographed on a clear sunny early morning . I shot into the sun for silhouettes & mist, across for shadow & light, & this one with the sun directly behind me. The challenge was to get the right balance of water movement, depth, & contrast. Though this was green-on-green, the difference of the reflective bronze statues against the softer focused trees keeps this from being just a mono tone blob. 

If I was to do this shot again I would try shortening the depth-of-field to soften the back ground more to allow higher contrast.

Minolta A2: ASA 100 – f6.3 @ 1/80th sec

Laura Cameron - Shutter/bracketing (Dodging the Light)

The National Transportation Museum outside St Louis has in its museum this vintage Dodge convertible. It's displayed in a mock diner, complete with red and turquoise neon lights flashing up and down a pillar. I wanted to capture as many of the lights on the hood as possible; the twinkles on the chrome (and the curving trail of light behind one of the jet-age hood ornaments) were a bonus.

Canon Rebel w/50mm prime lens; 1/5 sec @ f/13, ISO 1600 (max for the camera).

 

If I were going to do this differently, I'd request permission to bring in a tripod (and probably pay $10 "professionals" fee for the privilege), and get lower down on the grille rather than wasting real estate on the blank expanse of bonnet. To print it, I'll at least crop it tighter.

Shutter Speed- Mary Kutch

This was taking from a 55mph moving vehicle (rushing to the Kona airport) of a faster-moving airplane. I was surprised to find a setting which kept things in focus in the lower-light setting of sunset and oncoming storm. Taken with Nikon D300 with shutter speed 1/125s, f/25.0, ISO 400, focal length 55.0mm.

Spider Web

Shot this at Tumwater Falls Park with my new 50mm prime lense set on aperature mode @ f1.8. I like how the sun caught the web and I like the blurred green leaves behind the web. Wish it wasn't such a fat, yucky spider.

metering and shutter practice to show moving water

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I shot this scene at the lower Tumwater Falls down below the foot bridge.  I took about 15 shots of this same view practicing with different shutter speeds and metering.  I liked partial metering the best and a slow shutter with the camera on a tripod.  I thought partial metering would help with the contrast between white and dark, and the focal point being the water below the log.  I used live view.
shutter priority at .3 seconds
f/18  ISO 250
partial metering, exposure comp +1
focal length 56mm
(35mm equivalent of 89mm)

Spencer ~Tumwater falls

OK,

I took the opportunity to complete my home work from last weeks class at Tumwater Falls. I like how the water blurred as I slowed the shutter speed in this photo.

Exposure time: 0.0063 s (1/3)
Aperture : f/25
ISO equiv. : 100

Focal length : 100.0mm (35mm equivalent: 150mm)
Shutter: (1/160)
Aperture : f/4.5
ISO equiv. : 100

Stephanie ~ shutter

 spinning bike tire
1/2000, f/4, ISO 2500

same spinning tire
1/60, f22, ISO 2500

Roy Bees in flight

SS = 1/250s, f5.6, ISO 320, fl 42 mm

Leigh Ann

Settings: f/5.6, 1/200, ISO 200

Leigh Ann

Settings: f/80, 1/200, ISO 200

Self Critique

Positive: I love the boy jumping. I am a PE teacher and his style of jumping speaks volumes to the paradox of learning something difficult.

Composition: I would like the children in the background to be blurred but didn't know how to get that with trying to freeze the motion.

Exposure: The histogram for this picture is not good. Too light. I cannot see any detail in the clouds. Change the ISO?

Laura Cameron - Shutter + frame the shot (Fountain Gargoyle)

Taken outside St Louis' Union Station. F/9 at 1/1000, using the new 'nifty fifty' 50mm prime lens.

John Terranova - "Throwing Rocks"

My son throwing a rock into Lake Quinalt. I wanted to catch the water drops from the splash, so I'm using a fast shutter speed, with my highest ISO. I possibly could have backed off on the ISO a bit and let the aperture open wider to reduce the graininess.

Shutter: 1/1000

Aperture: 6.3

ISO: 1600

Focal Length: 6.4 mm

Panasonic DMC-FZ28

Fully Alive...Jennifer P

Kathleen Eussen - The Flag

The waving flag caught my interest. The shutter speed was chosen to freeze the motion of the flag.

I liked being able to freeze the motion of the flag. Next time I will take more pictures that blur the subject.

Camera settings: shutter speed: 1/640; aperture: f/22; ISO 1600; flcal length 22mm; camera location: on a tripod

Kris Ferrier - Week 3 Shutter Speed

f/8, 1/250, 105mm on a very gray afternoon...

Moving on

While I took untold numbers of images I picked this one as I caught 2 vehicles in one image and the round tires clearly showed distortion.  Other than that I would have pitched all of them as being no good!

Water Workers

It was a great exercise, BUT you should have seen what I took from the car!
Taken in Olympia on a very gray day. F4 @ 1/125 - ISO 100

Kathleen Eussen - Autumn Afternoon

Mary Kutch- blackberries

After going through the full range of aperture and ISO settings on a pile of driftwood, I turned to pack up and leave and noticed these above my head. The colors were much more interesting than the driftwood, especially with the bright afternoon sun filtering through the changing leaves. The aperture was at f/5.6(my lowest) to blur the background and create the impressionistic look. The ISO was high at 1600 due to the bright ambient light, and the histogram is spread across the entire graph, although no high peaks (not high contrast.) I like the colors, but would get closer to the berries to capture more detail and let them take up more of the frame. Focal length: 55mm, Nikon D3000 at Burfoot County Park.

Stephanie: amber waves

f/5.6, ISO 200, 1/3s
focal length 85mm

Alison - Furry - Up Close

Aperture 5.6    1/250     ISO 800

Focal Length 55mm

I was trying to get some close up pictures of bees on a cloudy day. I had many shots that were uninspiring, but I was playing with aperture and ISO to see what I could do while hand holding the camera. When this moth landed it was just what I needed to bring some color into the shot. I had to crop the left side as I couldn't stay in focus and get as close as I wanted to fill the frame. I think if the bees had been above the moth, the angle of the moth wings would have led your eye up to the bees. However, the moth took off after a few shots and so I just had to go with what I had.

Foot Prints

Well looking at everyone’s photos the feeling that I need to step up my game has set in. I love to be challenged and pushed to grow and learn. That said, this is a photo from this weekend. We were at the Oregon sand dunes where I spend most of my free time. The setting is the entrance of Winchester bay riding area. I found it odd at this time of year for sand to be this wet. Normally it is very soft almost powder like.

Picture info, F5/6; ISO 400; shutter 1/160, and focal length 48mm.

Cindy J. ~ Fallen....

I have to admit, this has been a very difficult and frustrating assignment for me this week. I think, however, it's starting to sink in. I confuse myself when I try to think the process out. I remembered Barbra told us if we got frustrated to just go take pictures so that's what I did. I took multiple pictures at different Fstops. I didn't really mess with any other settings. I went home and looked at all my pictures and picked the ones I really liked. Then I looked at the information to see what Fstop, etc. I took them at.

I named this picture "Fallen" because of the symbolism I see. The background is the Viet Nam Memorial Wall on the capitol grounds. There's a wonderful, big tree behind the wall. A tree of life. The wall is, unfortunately, full of fallen soldiers names, and the leaves have fallen from the tree.

The information from this picture is F4; ISO 100; shutter 1/125; and focal length 30 mm.

Seattle Fireboat

I shot this from the ferry to Bremerton. The vibration of the ferry motor created issues in trying to get a clear picture. This was shot at ISO 400, 55mm, f/4.0, 1/1000 sec. I did correct the horizontal tilt in Lightroom (the green building in the center appeared tilted to the right).

Laura Maki

Saturn on the Diagonal

Class 2: Exposure
During the class "shoot" time I noticed that most of the car trunk/hood emblems were round or oval.  I had never really consciously looked or noticed that before so for a homework assignment I went parking lot sleuthing.  Looking at cars, new or used is not my thing, neither is wandering in parking lots.  Needless to say when noticed by others I was unsure of the reception I was going to get.  Fortunately neither of the individuals was hostile or angry, just inquisitive.

Of the 40 or so shots I picked this one for the off center/level placement of the emblem which created other angles with the corners and the color combination.  (the car was not too dirty either).

Shot at 1/200, f5, ISO 200, 135mm; histogram filled the right 3 of the panels and part of the left 4th one.  This was not the best histogram, but I did not like that one.

Fall Across McLane Creek

I took a total of 30 shots of the same image - f-stops @ 3.5, 5.0, 8.0, 11.0, 16.0 and 22.0 in 5 different ISO settings - 200, 400, 1000, 3200 and 6400, all on a tripod. Histogram was generally "mountained" in the middle on all of them. The one I ended up selecing was 1/250, f3.5, ISO 400. I liked the blurred foreground on it the best (I was focused on the gold and green leaves about half-way up the shot) and the crispness of the color and focus, although I must admit it was difficult to discern the subtle differences on many of the images. This was taken at my home on McLane Creek. Afterwards I definitely played with different angles of this same shot.

Timothy - Class Week 2 - Depth of Field

In the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge
- taken at f3.5/ASA 64 to compensate for low light & to blur foreground foliage. The histogram is heavy to the left of the graph. The darkness emphasizes the stillness of the area. 

Laura Cameron - Aperture + Get Closer (The Dragonfly)

Shot in Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, while looking for extremely elusive birds. This volunteer posed repeatedly, nodding his head like Wall-E, and let me get within two feet of him.

Canon Rebel with 300mm prime lens; f/4.0 at 1/800 shutter speed, ISO 200. 

By shooting with the lens wide open, I was able to capture its head with good detail and both the rest of the boring fence and the bog behind it disappeared. I'd have like his tail in focus, too, but with this lens, I don't think that was going to happen anyway, unless I moved back to six feet.

The histogram, surprisingly, isn't overloaded at the black and white ends: the bulk of the pixels fall nicely in the middle of the scale, with lots of detail in the fence and the dragonfly's fore-end. There's little true white in the photo anyway: reflection on his eye and a bit of the wood grain.

Cindy- Subject Placement

Cindy I love the detail, and the photo.  Both are so crisp and clean.  The placement leaves a sense of anticipation as to what is likely to pop into the upper right!

Kathleen Eussen Reflection/Scavenger Hunt

Roy ---- Tapestry

Kathleen Eussen Action/Childhood

John Terranova "Childhood"

John Terranova "Colorful"

Mary Kutch "Fastest Food"