Old Trick band at Solley's Disco located in Brookland Texas. November 21, 2009. Photos taken using the Sony 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens using the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
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Old Trick band at Solley's Disco located in Brookland Texas. November 21, 2009. Photos taken using the Sony 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens using the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
HVL-F58AM Flash Tilted
This photo shows the versatility of the Sony a200 DSLR with the Vertical grip and the F58AM flash.
Flash tilted @ 45deg. Bounce Card pulled out.
Sony 18-70mm Lens
VG-B30AM grip.
Afternoon Pines 1.0
Taken using the Sony 18-70mm Lens and in 16:9 Aspect Ratio.
I am trying to convey the vastness of the Piny Woods here in South East Texas to my viewers. This area had many saw mills starting way back in the 1800s and some of them still continue today. This photo was taken in part of the Angelina National Forrest just South of Lake Rayburn.
I was out driving around down logging roads and had my camera for that purpose. You can see the ground vegetation is starting to make its color sift for the Fall Season. These woods look like they go on forever and some do. Where i was standing and looking to take this photo, i could not see any other trees. All of the old Hardwood had been cut out many years ago, perhaps at the tun of the century.
These trees have to be around 50 years old in this forrest where i stood to take this photo. It is hard to get the vastness from this photo, but it is an amazing site to see, standing in a forrest like this. All the colors and light coming through the trees and the shadows cast from the trees make a beautiful photo in my mind's eye. I only hope that you can appreciate them like i do...
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Vacant Field...
Initial 5 photo set was taken with the Minolta 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 Lens
As i was driving home on Millburn School Road today i saw a field that i have driven by many times. I looked and just happened to have my camera today so i got out and took several photos. I then decided to take a series going from left to right to make this panorama creation. To me, this photo symbolizes the Autumn is upon us.
I used my Minolta 35-105mm lens to take the initial series of photos. I could have cropped the photo to give it nice straight lines but i wanted for people to get the whole photo, not just a portion of it. So many photos that we look at are nice and neat, cropped to *perfection* and processed to the Nth degree. I wanted people to feel the rawness of this photo and also the beauty of it!
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Sunset At Lake Sam Rayburn...
Taken with the Minolta 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 Lens.
Close to The Dam located on RR255.
Lots To Drink...
"The New Ground Floor Bar" in Belleville, IL
Taken with the Minolta 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 Lens
This was a fun little photo to take. I love the bottom lighting on the liquor bottles. It is a neat effect.
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
DSC09439: Craft Alliance Series 1.4
Taken with the Minolta 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 Lens in St Louis MO off of Delmar Loop.
DSC09167: Leaf 1.3
Taken with the Minolta 35-105 f/3.5-4.5 Lens.
This is another Fall photo that i took yesterday. I love the tree in the left side of the photo that is blurry and out of focus. It has a Bokeh like effect with the settings that i used to take the leaves that are turning color. Fall is really in the air for use in the St Louis Metro Region.
Cool Mornings and nice days...
Winter is just around the corner...
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 200
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Ice covered bush at a local park in OFallon Illinois. Taken with the Minolta 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 Lens.
Forrest 1.0
Taken in the Angelina National Forrest off of HWY 63 West in 16:9 Aspect Ratio using the Sony 18-70mm Lens after about 3 inches of rain today. You can see the foliage starting to change.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Picture 446 crop
Original photo taken in March of 2008.
This was taken in its original form on my first trip to St Louis. I did a crop of the photo getting rid of the building that was located in the bottom of the photo, just leaving the reflection of the courthouse and a few other buildings. Here is a link to the original photo titled "Random Artistic Shots..."
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100
DSC09425: Craft Alliance Series 1.17
Craft Alliance Delmar Loop: 6640 Delmar Blvd, STL, MO 63130
I think that this was a very hard photo to take. The lighting was minimal with a spot shining on the object. Its colors are very neutral and not bright and the background is neutral as well.
All in all, i think that the a200 did a great job in representing this object given the conditions. The cam was in "Landscape" mode shooting in Aperture Priority with DRO+ on. I shot at f/9 to get a clear, sharp photograph with a good depth of field.
Give me some feedback on this one folks!!
Exposure: 0.077 sec (1/13)
Aperture: f/9
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
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St Louis Zoo Butterfly Dome July 2008. This photo has very nice Bokeh in it.
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 100
DSC02497: Sun Through Palm
Taken with my DSC-H1 Sony Cybershot. It is a 5.1Megapixel Camera. This was taken on vacation at the Outer Banks North Carolina 2007.
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 64
My First Attempts...
Taken when i lived in Midlothian Virginia.
I took these at the entrance to my subdivision.
Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture: f/20
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Night Sky November 17, 2009
The photo secession was taken at a place around Lake Sam Rayburn on the road to the new State Fish Hatchery. We like to call it “Little Tunguska” because of the look the environment has. The area has no lights or ambient light from the surrounding area. While were out, we saw 25 of the Leonoid Meteorites in the night sky.
It was taken using the Sony 18-70mm Lens and made using the program called Startrails. I took 64 different photos that were 45 seconds long at ISO800. The focal length was 18mm at f/3.5 from 10.39pm to 11.09pm CST facing the North Western Sky. I used the Opetka Programmable Wired Shutter Release to accomplish this photography set . This photo is the equivalent of a 48 minuet timed exposure.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Alton Illinois 1.11
Taken with the "Sony 18-70mm"
Often called the "Super Bridge," the Clark Bridge links Highways 367 and 67 in Missouri to Alton, Illinois. It replaced the old Clark Bridge that served the area from 1928 to 1994. Design work on the new cable-stayed bridge was started in 1985, and construction began in 1990.
The bridge, which has four traffic lanes and two bike lanes, spans 4,260 feet across the Mississippi River. It is made of 8,100 tons of structural steel, 44,100 cubic yards of concrete and more than 160 miles of cable wrapped with four acres of yellow plastic piping. Pilings that support the bridge were driven more than 140 feet below bedrock.
Design criteria based on wind testing and geological studies were used to help make the bridge earthquake resistant. Total cost of the bridge was 118 million dollars, including the demolition of the old bridge.
Exposure: 10 sec (10)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 26 mm
ISO Speed: 100
DSC04313: Light Set 2.6
Some Christmas lights on a tree taken at night!! A little reminder that Christmas is just around the corner... Ho Ho Ho!!
Austin Power Plant
Austin Road Trip starting in Jasper on 7-24-2009 and ending on 7-25-2009 back in Jasper. Jimmy Freeman, Forest Jones and Myself...
I love this photo but i want to go back and do it from another angle. The colors and the night sky are just wonderful. The red hue is from the big sign on it.
Exposure: 10
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009
All photos taken today were taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. The Mushroom Walk was held in the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) on Saturday, November 14, 2009. We left the Big Thicket Field Research Station (FRS) located in Saratoga, Texas s on the west side of FM 770 in the small town and it is marked with a brown, Park Service sign.
We went into the nearby Lance Rosier Unit of the BTNP, and collected and recorded species. This activity is part of the BTNP All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). The collections will be displayed, identified, and dried for deposit in an herbarium. The mushroom walk will be lead by President David Lewis (http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/cc/461_3243.htm), who is also the ATBI Taxonomic Working Group (TWIG) leader. Jay Justice, a mycologist from Arkansas, was also present for this event.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Photography Tech Tip: Minolta/Sony solution against hot pixels, stuck pixels
Solution against hot pixels, stuck pixels.
I noticed this tonight on a photo shoot while doing very long exposures at night.
Once a month, when switching off, the SLR camera will shoot a black image (not even opening the shutter) and look for stuck pixels to update the “dead pixel map” of the camera. The switching off appears slower when this happens (the red light will blink a little longer), but after this step the problem is automatically corrected.
If you want to correct it by yourself, the only thing that you have to do is to change the date in the camera menu, move it forward at least further than the next 1st day of the next month, switch off the camera (let it do its little game of red light), switch it on again, shoot one picture, go to the menu and change the date back, then switch off the camera.
After this, your Sony camera updated its hot pixel mapping and knows where to expect them. It will automatically remove them from the picture and just interpolate values from the neighboring pixels. Instead of having an ugly white spot, you’ll get a microscopic and all-but-invisible loss of resolution (one-pixel resolution loss out of 6 to 20 million is still acceptable, isn’t it?)
It works with all Sony SLR cameras (and older Minolta or Konica/Minolta cameras). To be kept somewhere in the back of our memory.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
320 Second Exposure
Long Exposures at Nigh taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens. The temp was about 50 DegF and it was a very clear sky. Location is on the New State Fish Hatchery road located on FMR 255, Southern tip of Lake Sam Rayburn.
Exposure: 320
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400
465 Second Exposure
Long Exposures at Nigh taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens. The temp was about 50 DegF and it was a very clear sky. Location is on the New State Fish Hatchery road located on FMR 255, Southern tip of Lake Sam Rayburn.
Exposure: 465
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
837 Second Exposure
Long Exposures at Nigh taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens. The temp was about 50 DegF and it was a very clear sky. Location is on the New State Fish Hatchery road located on FMR 255, Southern tip of Lake Sam Rayburn.
Exposure: 837
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
15 Minute 1 Second Exposure
Long Exposures at Nigh taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens. The temp was about 50 DegF and it was a very clear sky. Location is on the New State Fish Hatchery road located on FMR 255, Southern tip of Lake Sam Rayburn.
Exposure: 901
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Golden Morning
Taken in OFallon Illinois. It was about 12 DegF that morning.
If i would have not said where this photo was taken, one could assume that it is anywhere in the world. The snow gives it a desolate look. The sun glowing off the snow looks like it could be in the tundra or some other location like that.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO Speed: 200
DSC07301: Resin 1.3
I happened to look up and i saw all the pine resin on a spot where the limb had been cut. I thought that i looked very interesting and i happened to have my camera with the 70-300mm lens on it. I placed it in Macro mode and that is what i got. It has some great Bokeh and Depth of Field.
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Rose 3.3
Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens. Late evening photography. More of my Great Grandmothers Roses.
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 280 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Rose 3.1
Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens. Late evening photography. More of my Great Grandmothers Roses.
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Rose 3.0
Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens. Late evening photography. More of my Great Grandmothers Roses.
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel
IH64 West in Virginia.
Inside the tunnel at the bottom of it heading west. I thought that this would be a neat picture if it came out well. This was the best of the set. I did get some interesting effects while i was in the car trying this. Our speed was 55mph. I shot this photo in the "Action" program.
Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Sitting
This was taken in Virginia as well.
I was finally able to get her to sit on the back of the sectional sofa where i was able to get a full length photo of her.
Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 20 mm
ISO Speed: 400
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