Monday, April 07, 2008

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

Sunday, April 06, 2008

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

Thursday, April 03, 2008

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

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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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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

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.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

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

The Old Courthouse in St Louis...

The Old Courthouse in St Louis..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

The Old Courthouse In St Louis with The Arch in the background. I shot this in a 16:9 HD Aspect Ratio.

www.slfp.com/OldCourthouse.html

A strange tree...

A strange tree..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was taken in O'Fallon Illinois while we were on vacation in St Louis. I thought that it was very strange looking the way that it was trimmed for the winter.

St Louis University

St Louis University, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I thought that this was a very interesting piece of "Modern Art" It was taken off of Market Street in St Louis.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Spider...

Picture 230, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

F/5.6 Exposure 1/100 ISO400 Focal Length 50mm

St. Louis Zoo

I thought that this one turned out very good for a Macro pic.

King Penguin...

King Penguin..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

St Louis Zoo Exhibit:

This handsome bird is one of the largest penguin species. It weighs about 33 pounds, second only to the emperor penguin. The king penguin's large size helps it cope with the extreme Antarctic cold and allows it to dive deeper than most penguins.