Thursday, September 18, 2014

New Camera time




Pentax K-01. I have a backup body... it has better high ISO performance than my primary camera. Oops. Also it's fun to use!

The rest: http://1drv.ms/1mk7XhV

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

A Day at the Races - 24 Hours of LeMons and HURFFEST

Hi! I set up my desktop computer and finally had a few minutes to post pictures from over a month ago!














I secretly hope the 200SX/Rubber Ducky is my old car.

See more here: 24 Hours of Lemons and two pictures of HyperFest

I have finished moving and have a little more time to myself and, perhaps more importantly, I have better access to the great outdoors. Maybe I'll start taking more pictures again finally!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Purpose-driven


DA 50-200


DA 50-200


DA 50-200


DA 10-17 fisheye... at 17.

and my favorite of the batch:

DA 50-200.

I took the 43 with me but used it on only one picture that didn't work very well. Who needs normal?

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Thoughts on 24mm

I did my walk today, as I had said. I took a kit consisting of 14, 24, 43, 50 macro, and 77 with me (all fitting within my crumpler 3-slot bag... fear the Pentax system).

Of those lenses, I only used three - 24, 50, and 77. I forced myself to use the 24 more than the others, I think, at least for a more widely varied range of situations.

I will be posting a gallery, hopefully tomorrow, with all of the shots from today that weren't horribly blown out for not paying attention to metering. Some of them turned out quite nicely, I think, but I'd like critique on the basic: considering how I prefer abusing wide-angle lenses, what do you think?

More coming as it develops (ha ha get it it is a photo blog)

[edit] MORE HAS DEVELOPED! The picasa gallery is here.

Some highlights from the 24:






Monday, September 13, 2010

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Macro at the Wildlife Refuge









And finally:


I like that last one, but I have to admit, I cheated. I wanted to take a picture that was just the silhouette of the spider against the background, but I wasn't happy with the way it turned out. On a whim, I decided to drag the blacks control all the way to 100 before deleting it and I think I'm really happy with the result.

Here's the rest. The only two lenses I took were my 16-45 and my 50/4 macro, and only the first 3 were with the zoom.