Spring Time...

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Wet Deck Reflection...

Wet Deck Reflection..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this yesterday 4.12.2008 at 1.06pm after it had stopped raining. It turned out very neat with the reflection and the flash firing. I took this in Macro setting. The photo is very clear and you can see the cracks in the wood. We used a "Red Wood" colored stain and a seal coat on the pressure treated timbers.

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode, red-eye reduction

Looks Fake to me?

Looks Fake to me?, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this on 4.11.2008 at 10.26pm. It has a very CGI look to me. It was also shot in Vivid Mode. It has a very ethereal look to it.
Exposure: 30 sec (30)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Another Waterfall pic...

My First Attempts..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this at the entrance to my subdivision. I think that this one came out better then the first photo that i posted.

Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture: f/20
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 100

My First Attempts at Waterfalls.

My First Attempts..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this at the entrance to my subdivision. I set the camera to Apature Priority. It is a look that i have seen in several photos in the Flickr Groups that i am in. I hope to be able to find a real waterfall and try this again. I guess that i came out fine as it had the cloudy look that other photos that i have looked at have.

Exposure: 0.2 sec (1/5)
Aperture: f/18
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Tulip Twins...

I posted a picture of this Tulip several days ago. This is the same Tulip with the other budding out and it will be open soon.

F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure: 1/80 second
Iso Speed: 100
Focal Length: mm



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Morning sun...

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Another Shot at Night, My Best Yet...

Another Shot at Night., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was taken in Vivid Mode as well. You can see the green grass and light from the windows hitting it. You can also see stars above the houses as well.. I am just amazed at the depth and clarity that i can achieve with this camera. I think that is by far the best Night Photo that i have taken to date.

Exposure: 30 sec (30)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Night Photo in Backyard...

Night Photo in Backyard..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this in the backyard just playing around with the settings of the camera. I also had the setting on Vivid Mode on the Manual Program. I am learning about the F/Stop setting and how they react with the light and camera settings. I am also trying different ISO settings when i take photos at night. You can also see a few stars above the houses.

Exposure: 20 sec (20)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Busy Bee...

Busy Bee..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this photo in a neighbors yard and i saw a Bee in on a flower. I took several more shots of the bee.

Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Camera Stuff...

It has been close to a month since i bought the Sony a200 DSLR. I LOVE IT!! I try to shoot about 10-15 photos a day depending on the weather and what i am try to do at that time. I try to learn something different and practice that function when i use the camera. This does not presuppose that i do not still use the 51.1Megapixel Sony Cybershot DSC-H1 camera or my Cellphone Cam. I use them all. Sometimes i shoot a pic with the Cybershot and them i will try to duplicate it with the a200. Other times like today, i did a photo with he a200 and then with the cam phone. It is really fun to use all of them because i can do so much with them all.

It is strange switching between them as the a200 weighs more and is physically bigger than the DSC-H1. The a200 uses the Eye Range Finder and has all the information on a display that you can see, no point and shoot stuff. You can see the photo on the big LCD screen on the back with all the EXIF data on it. The DSC-H1 has all this data on the LCD screen as well but unlike the a200, you see the image in real time and can use it to shoot the photo. My cam phone does not include the EXIF data in the picture it takes, that kind of sucks, but what do you expect, it is only a phone. It does take good pictures for a 1.3Megapixel camera as i have gotten lots of comments about the quality. In fact, i have a sunset photo that a local artist is going to make a painting of for me! It is the most Lo-Fi camera that i own and people have made more comments about it!

Well i will keep posting photos and i hope that all of you keep looking and reading about them.
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Late Evening Sky...

Late Evening Sky..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this before we went to the gym. The sky had really deep reds and orange in it.

Exposure: 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO Speed: 250

Lo-Fi Yello Tulip

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Yellow Tulip...

Yellow Tulip..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I have been watching this tulip for several days and waiting for it to open up. See how the black contrasts with the bright yellow?

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100

What I am reading...

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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More Mike Gentilcore's BMX Pics...

These are photos of Mike doing a "Bunny Hop" over a shoe box standing on end with another one set on top of it. They were also taken on Saturday, April 8, 2008 during the afternoon.

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More Drops Of Rain...

More Drops Of Rain..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took several of the Lillies off the back desk at our home. I used the flash for this photo. It is a little bright but i guess that i would be this bright if the sun had been out.

Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 3200
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV
Flash: Flash fired, red-eye reduction

The Cult - Rain

1985...This remindes me of Rhinestones in Beaumont and K106fm. They played live from the clubs there and also from Starz in Vinton Louisiana.

The Cult's - She Sells Sanctuary

1985 at its best!! What an album "Love"

Marcy Playground - Saint Joe on the Schoolbus

This is a great track. Has a real Nirvana feel to it...

Random Artistic Shots 3

Random Artistic Shots..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took these at different places around St Louis. See the reflection of The Old Courthouse in the building?

Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Random Artistic Shots 2

Random Artistic Shots..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is inside the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in St Louis. The building is very ornate. If you see, it is over 3 stories to the top from the level that i was on.

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 160

Random Artistic Shots 1

Random Artistic Shots..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took these at different places around St Louis. This is a HD Aspect 16:9 photo of the rotunda of The Old Courthouse. I laid on my back to get this pic.

Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 20 mm
ISO Speed: 800

BMX Pro Racer and a friend of mine.

Mike is a friend of mine. He is the oldest Professional BMX rider in the USA. He was down in
Midlothian visiting Mark, his brother-in-law for his birthday. Mark and Mike set up some stunts on the road and i shot 440 photographs using my Sony a200 10.2Megapixel SLR to get action shots.

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Rose...New Spring Growth

Rose...New Spring Growth, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I love the color in the plant. It was shot at a high ISO speed(3200) but there is not a lot of noise in the photo. The flash was a little bright on this pic, but the sun was not out.

Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 3200
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV
Flash: Flash fired, red-eye reduction

Azalea in Spring...

Azalea in Spring..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 200
One of my Azaleas in my backyard that is blooming. I wanted to get the cluster of blooms. It was no light this afternoon and was really cloudy, no sun was out.

Rain on a lilly...

Rain on a lilly..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this today. I thought that the rain drops were really cool on the blade.I used the MACRO mode on my cam. I focused in on the drops and let everything else be out of focus.

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Motion Blur Pics.3

Motion Blur Pics..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

These were images that i took while i was in St Louis. It was fun just trying our different settings on the A200. I set the cam to 3 second exposure and i was in a car heading West on I64. You can see the Arch in the pic. It looks really neat.

Exposure: 3.2 sec (16/5)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Motion Blur Pics.2

Motion Blur Pics..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

These were images that i took while i was in St Louis. It was fun just trying our different settings on the A200. I set the cam to 5 second exposure and i was in a car heading West on I64. This was taken in a curve.

Exposure: 5 sec (5)
Aperture: f/32
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 3200

Motion Blur Pics.1

Motion Blur Pics..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is am images that i took while i was in St Louis. It was fun just trying our different settings on the A200. I set the cam to .5 second exposure and i was in a car heading West on I64.

Exposure: 0.5 sec (1/2)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 1600

Let's play catch up.

It has been a while since my last text post.  I was away in St Louis for 7 days with daughter and wife.  We did the sights and saw the town so to speak.  We went into the Arch.  We went to the zoo on a very cold and kind of felt jilted.  When we arrived there, not many of the animals were out due to the temperature.  We did manage to see a few cheetahs but they were far back in their cages. I barked at them and they looked straight at us.  Some people near us laughed and then took the opportunity to shoot a few pics. They did not run to us and jump over the fence. The Elephants were out and we go lots of pics of them. We went to the Penguin area and it was really good, perhaps the best I have been to. At some other parts of the zoo, more animals were out. It was warmer by then.

 

We then went to the St Louis Museum of Science.  IT was really good and had lots of hands on stuff to do.  I took a many pics and I posted one of the mummy that they had on display. Here is the link to one of the three pics of that. http://renigade.blogspot.com/2008/03/mummy_2860.html   IF you ever make it to St Louis, go there. It is a neat building that stretches over I64.  Really cool.

 

Another day, we did the Anheuser-Busch brewery  tour and it was really neat. They took us to several different places in the plant. We went to one of the production lines and were told that 1200 bottles a minute were processed and that another line had 2000 cans a minute!!  That is a lot of beer! I did not realize all the products that they made. The factory was very old and it was free. Yeah.

 

So we also went to The Arch!  It is 635feet tall and has an observation deck on top.  I took several shots from it and made a panorama shot out of them I will post it tonight. The thing looks like a teleportation gateway to another land or dimension. We also went to the Old Court House.  That is where the Dred Scott case was heard back in 1857.  The courthouse is framed with the Arch in the back of it. I did a post of this pic several days ago.  Here is the link: http://renigade.blogspot.com/2008/04/old-courthouse-in-st-louis.html  

 

I have now returned to normal living.  I went to the gym after being off for 2 weeks. I got my butt KICKED tonight.  I was sick when I returned from St Louis as was wife and daughter. We got in on last Thursday and then had to go to Myrtle Beach SC for a cheer competition and we were there all last weekend returning on Sunday night at 10.30pm, tired and a little worse for the road.  We all now feel better and are almost well.

 

I am going to close for now…

 

All have a good night.

 

 

RMStringer

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It signifies a course of action deliberately designed by one or more interested

agents to undermine and replace some established loyalty."

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The Gateway Arch

The Gateway Arch, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this at the base of the Arch in St Louis. It is a truly enormous monument to stand beside. It is taller than The Washington monument and The Statue Of Liberty. This was a hard pic to take due to the size. Look at the people standing at the base of it.

F/10 ISO100 Exposure 1/500 Focal 18mm

View From The Arch

I made this pic from 4 different shots. I used Panorama Maker 3.0 to combine them. 635 feet above the city.

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Sugar Ghost

Sugar Ghost, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is our CRAZY CAT!! I was playing around with the cam last night and i took this pic in RAW mode.

4.2.2008 Sunset

4.2.2008 Sunset, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was taken in RAW mode as well. F13.0 ISO100 Shutter 1/250 sec. I took the pic at 7.12pm It was taken in a 16:9 HD Aspect Ratio. The lake is Swift Creek Reservoir. I used the Sunset Setting on the cam as well.

Tuplip on the right side...

Tuplip on the right side..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I was walking around looking for something to shoot today and i found this Tulip. This one is an up close shot. F5.6 Shutter Speed: 1/100 sec, Focal 60mm, ISO320