Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Angelina River Sunset 1.8


Angelina River Sunset 1.8, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Taken below Lake Sam Rayburn Dam in 16:9 Aspect Ratio using the Quantaray 70-300mm Lens at the forks of The Angelina River.

Angelina River Sunset 1.7 is a companion to 1.8. I was able to achieve the deep tones and textures in Black and White using a Center-Weighted Average Metering mode for this photo as well. Also using a little Depth Of Field to get the focus on the plants and not the water.

Sunset & River Through Glass...

Taken below Lake Sam Rayburn Dam in 16:9 Aspect Ratio using the Sony 18-70mm Lens at the forks of The Angelina River.

I focused on the windshield of my truck to get this effect. You can see the littl specs of stuff on the glass. It is funny that the world does not look blurry like this photo. Our eyes are amazing things...

Angelina River Sunset 1.10


Angelina River Sunset 1.10, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Taken below Lake Sam Rayburn Dam in 16:9 Aspect Ratio using the Quantaray 70-300mm Lens at the forks of The Angelina River.

I just love how the sun is reflecting on the water in this photo and how deep orange the sky is.

Angelina River Sunset 1.12


Angelina River Sunset 1.12, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Taken below Lake Sam Rayburn Dam in 16:9 Aspect Ratio using the Quantaray 70-300mm Lens at the forks of The Angelina River in Black and White in Center-Weighted Metering Mode.

More fun using Depth Of Field to get the bushes in sharp focus and the river and sunset blurry. Amazing Sunset on the river this evening.

Angelina River Sunset 1.7


Angelina River Sunset 1.7, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Taken below Lake Sam Rayburn Dam in 16:9 Aspect Ratio using the Quantaray 70-300mm Lens at the forks of The Angelina River.

Just a little fun using Depth of Field to achieve this effect while shooting in Center-Weighted Average Metering Mode to get the deep, dark tones.

Angelina River Sunset 1.0


Angelina River Sunset 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Taken below Lake Sam Rayburn Dam in 16:9 Aspect Ratio using the Sony 18-70mm Lens at the forks of The Angelina River.

Twin Dikes Park

Park is being repaved snd boat ramp is closed. Nice new road surface in the whole park. Lake Sam Rayburn TX.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Old Trick Band


DSC09948, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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.

Old Trick Band


DSC00021, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Lights, Smoke, Music, Action!!!

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.

Old Trick Band


DSC09986, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Old Trick band at Solley's Disco located in Brookland Texas. November 21, 2009. Photos taken with the Minolta 50mm f/1.7 Prime Lens.

Old Trick Band


DSC09990, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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.

Old Trick Band


DSC00025, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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.

Old Trick Band


DSC00017, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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.

Old Trick Band


DSC09937, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Old Trick band at Solley's Disco located in Brookland Texas. November 21, 2009. Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Tele-Macro Lens using the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash.

Old Trick Band


DSC09964, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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.

DSC00026


DSC00026, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

Old Trick

Solley's Disco Tonight!
RMStringer

HVL-F58AM Flash Tilted


F58am Tilted, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Afternoon Pines 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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...


Vacant Field..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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!

DSC00107


DSC00107, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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...


Lots To Drink..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

"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


DSC09167: Leaf 1.3, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

DSC06478


DSC06478, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Forrest 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

Hung Out...

Taken With My 3.2 Megapixel Lg Dare.

Picture 446 crop


Picture 446 crop, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

DSC06725


DSC06725, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


DSC02497: Sun Through Palm, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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...


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

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


Night Sky November 17, 2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Alton Illinois 1.11, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


DSC04313: Light Set 2.6, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Some Christmas lights on a tree taken at night!! A little reminder that Christmas is just around the corner... Ho Ho Ho!!

Tony Restaurant 1.3


Tony Restaurant 1.3, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Taken All Around Houston Texas on Friday Night, August 14, 2009.

Austin Power Plant


DSC01612 Power Plant, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

Alton Illinois 1.6


Alton Illinois 1.6, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Taken when i lived in OFallon Illinois.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009


Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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


Mushroom Walk 11-14-2009, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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.

Mushrooms

More to come!
RMStringer

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


320 Second Exposure, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

Take A Face From The Ancient Gallery Original Mix videoclip

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