phriday photos

we went camping last weekend and here is one of the dogs camping with us.

Nikon F5 on Fujifilm
Some trees, sun and campfire smoke

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and here are David and Paula, our friends with whom we were camping

canon powershot S90 with forced flash for fill

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messing around with bokeh and depth of field in the Parma’s grass.
This one with my 300mm f4 and water droplets on the grass

and this one with my 80-200mm f2.8 and a leaf (new custom header picture)

here is a two flash “strobist” take on decorative grass headers

sb800 to camera left about two feet from the grass. [...]

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these weeds have been fascinating me and I finally got the chance to photograph them this week.

and I bought a canon point and shoot (powershot S90) to carry around for more spontaneous pictures. It is a great little camera.

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Tuesday morning was very foggy misty and gray.

Tuesday afternoon was sunny and very bright.

tried the 50 f1.4 for under the basket shots.

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sunlight.

joseph in uniform

Lighting information for the Joseph pictures:
two sb800’s and a setting sun. SB800 on the camera in TTL Commander mode. SB800 set to TTL on moving voice activated stand to camera right 3 feet away and pointing up at Joseph. Setting sun off to camera right approximately 93 million miles away. White diffusers mounted. [...]

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Another sunrise. I love sunsets and sunrises and the colors they make.

up a little farther

and I keep telling my wife that I need a 24-70 f2.8 for the close in work

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these cool mornings feel very fallish. loving the change after a very long, very hot, very dry summer.

capitol renovations are on the horizon. soon this will be covered up with scaffold.

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rain and cool brought out the wildflowers (new header picture)

sunrise last week

and williamson county fall league ball has begun

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cooling off

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portrait from last Sunday’s wedding

ninth grade football. nephew Joshua (be strong and courageous) playing linebacker for Midway Panthers.

twin brother Nathan (thou art the man) sidelined with an ACL tear.

wedding yesterday

the daughter of a good friend of ours was married yesterday.

it was an outdoor wedding at Kindred Oaks in Leander/Georgetown/way north area. It was lovely and fun. the weather cooperated in a big way and it wasn’t too hot.

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afternoon bokeh

Black and White sunstar

Black and White dandelion

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squirrel fight

aggie bench bokeh

golden light on the North side of the Capitol

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took this for a bokeh wednesday

so hot and dry this year

enjoying a cool treat

God in nature

Challies put up an excellent post yesterday about the nine things he learned about God from nature. Take some time this weekend to read it.
I have also been struck by this fact when I take pictures:
…A GOD OF DETAIL
God overlooked no detail in creating this world. While humans like to declare that certain parts [...]

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down Lady Bird Lake

sunset

there is just something about film and B&W that makes me like this picture of the dizzy bat race

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went out last Saturday evening to take some pictures of the power plant on first street.

as long as I was down there, I walked around and took some more pictures.
here is the Lamar Street bridge

and here is the pedestrian bridge

perspective

I have found that in taking pictures, perspective is key. getting low or getting high puts just a little different spin on reality. Joe McNally agrees.
This guy once said, get your camera in a different place. I tell ya, sometimes when you have a camera in your hands you just [...]

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a pelican swooping over the water last Tuesday morning

more macro flowers

and a monochromatic sunstar from the old film camera

wow!! now this is photography

Check out these awesome pictures and blog post from a fellow Aggie.
So my second technique was using a high ISO to capture as many stars as I could inside the exposure. So how I did that was I cranked up my ISO to about 3200-4000. Side Note: The 5d Mark ii (which is the camera [...]

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here are my sister’s sons hamming it up. I had one flash to camera left and one mounted on the camera bouncing off the white ceiling. Both set to TTL.

here is the picture from which I cropped my current header.

and a snap from the trip home yesterday evening while I waited at a [...]

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here is bokeh from the 105mm on Film

and Joseph is back out at Camp Peniel for two weeks of work camp. This is the shower and sink facility

and here is some lightning from last night’s storm. This was my first attempt at lightning capture. I want to have another go at it.

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some more hot weather sun loving flowers

wider view

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UPDATED to put this on Friday where it belongs. Sorry about jumping the gun yesterday.
still water

360 bridge

isolating the subject from the background

flowers in the thorns

I don’t know if you have ever gotten personally involved with a prickly pear cactus up close, but it is an exceedingly unpleasant experience. The big thorns hurt and will poke you deeply, but they are fairly easy to remove. It is the little bitty thorns that seem to multiply in your skin [...]