May 26, 2010

When I was driving into work, I was stopped at a long light.  I saw the tree above raining petals onto the street, so I snapped a few pictures through the sunroof on my car.

May 25, 2010

Fire hydrant (I guess) outside my kid's school.

May 18, 2010

There was some wild grass growing by a parking lot when Reece and I were out taking photos.

May 9, 2010

Being Mother's Day, I wasn't about to spend too much time taking pictures. We had a nice little cookout on the back porch, and I snapped a few pictures of the trees in our back yard.  Usually, there's an army of squirrels out there hopping about, but it seems to be their day off . . .

May 4, 2010

Just a bit of infrared - a Hoya  R72 on my 50mm prime lens.  Exposure time was about 4 seconds, with ISO set at 400. The shots aren't wide, but the clarity is nice!

April 29, 2010

Played with HDR a little bit -I had the flowers sitting by an open window with an aluminum top as a reflector.  In the back, I had a large piece of black fabric to null the background a bit.  I think I need to try the HDR on a proper landscape . . .

April 27, 2010

It was a cool day, but the youngest was enjoying the swings anyway. I wasn't too happy about the focus-  but the shot wasn't planned out, so I can't complain too much!

I've also noticed that it's the time of year to start breaking out the Hoya r72 filter.  I had a problem with some odd banding across my IR pictures, but read somewhere to cover the  eye viewer to cut down on excess light bouncing around inside the camera.  Turns out that it works!

April 23, 2010

Okay - not my best picture, but it's more of testing  a concept.  I did a panoramic shot on my tripod.  Colors are awful, but it still worked out nicely.  I can't wait to try it out properly out at Dawes' Arboretum.

April 22, 2010

It seemed like such a nice day, and I had my little skeleton guy out and about with me, and these pretty flowers were there . . .
Or maybe it was a perfect day to begin the Zombie Apocalypse . . .

April 14, 2010

A small tunnel of flowering trees on the OSU campus.  I was running both the SD4 filter and the polarizer, which may have been a bit much.

April 13, 2010

It's a flower!  It was a bit windy, so I took some pictures rapid-fire and took the best one.  I'm really happy with this one - it's pretty clear for hand-held on an old manual focus lens!

April 12, 2010

Ever since I started this little project, it seems that I spend a lot of time noticing my immediate surroundings.  At first, it was in an effort to find that 'shot for the day.'  This year, it seems that spring is literally exploding with color, and this is the first time I'm really noticing it.
I took this picture in our front yard; there is a bush that straddles the property line between ours and our neighbor's house.   I walked around the bush for a good 5 minutes, taking near 50 pictures of the little flowers at different apertures.