Archive for February, 2010
White light bursting forth – Photo of the Day #56
February 12th, 2010 • 1 comment photography
Tags: fountain, photo of the day, photography, project 365
This is a fountain in a complex about a mile from our house. I thought the blazing white center light was a great focal point and I think this turned out well. Funny thing is this is a “private residence” with “no trespassing” and I walked right in, real private eh!
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX @ f/2.2
ISO800 @ 1/6s hand-held
Tungsten WB
Matrix metering
What shall we watch tonight? – Photo of the Day #55
February 10th, 2010 • 1 comment photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
This is most of my girlfriend’s DVD collection. We had to move everything off of our new Ikea cabinets so we could put doors on them! I don’t know what was more tedious, taking all her DVDs down or mounting 30lb melamine doors, ugh!
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 @ f/2.2
ISO800 @ 1/10s
Matrix metering
Tungsten WB A1
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Site maintenance
February 9th, 2010 • chatter
Tags: maintenance
Today I am performing some site maintenance. I’m updating old pages along with installing a new information-centric theme and updating some old posts. All the content will still be online but things may change around here and there through the course of the day.
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Clean up your poop! – Photo of the Day #54
February 9th, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
Just one of the many signs around the neighborhood. I love the green tone this is giving off due to the flourescent white balance I used. The print on the sign itself is green and the light source is a pale cool white with a tinge of green flourescent. Makes for a very interesting photo!
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX @ f/2.2
ISO800 @ 1/6s (hand-held with no shakes!)
Matrix metering
Flourescent WB set to "cool white" A1
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No picture tonight
February 7th, 2010 • chatter
Too tired, long weekend
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Play me some jazz funk – Photo of the Day #53
February 6th, 2010 • photography
Tags: jazz, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
Took this tonight at wine tasting in Davie, where they had a local jazz band playing whose name I can’t recall at this moment. They were well in time together and played some smooth tunes, even did a rendition of a Bob Marley song.
I was displeased with the lighting though. I had three different types of light sources (warm flourescent, daylight flourescent, and some weird white tungstens) that I could never get to white balance just right. The rest of the shots I took turned out terribly, so next time I’ll be taking my own diffused flash. It was fun though.
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX @ f/2.2
ISO640 @ 1/25s
Spot metering
Flourescent WB B1 cool white
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So many choices, only one night – Photo of the Day #52
February 6th, 2010 • photography
Tags: nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
This is just a few of the restaurants available at "The Turn" in Deerfield Beach next to the ocean. Truthfully, I’ve never eaten on that side of the road, we always eat on the opposite side with Flanigan’s and The Whale’s Rib. Fresh seafood at its finest!
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX @ f/2.5
ISO200 @ 1/80s
Tungsten WB
Spot metering
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All it takes is one drop – Photo of the Day #51
February 5th, 2010 • photography
Tags: bokeh, nikon d90, photo of the day, photography, project365
This is an absolutely great blood splatter. Except for the fact that it’s not blood at all! This is a stain from the inside of a HYDROXYCUT supplement pill. I have no idea what this is actually is chemically but it’s visually identical to blood. Where’s Dexter when you need him?!
Nikon D90
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 @ f/1.8
ISO1600 @ 1/50s
Spot metering
Tungsten WB under daylight flourescent bulbs.
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A few weeks in, a few weeks out
February 4th, 2010 • chatter
Tags: nexus one, nikon, photography
We’re going into our fifth week at school and things are going fine, I suppose. I’m not used to these lower level classes where you only do tests every few weeks. The higher level classes give me grade feedback a bit more quickly than that. I solved my dilemma of sitting with chatterboxes by simply sitting where they never will: in the middle of the classroom. There’s still a little chatter but it’s not constantly in my ear like previously. I just do not understand freshmen sometimes. Why pay $500+ for a class that you’re just going to talk through and/or play on Facebook in? I’d rather take that money and do something with it.
We had planned a Valentine’s Day shoot for this upcoming Sunday but have scrapped it because the time frame was simply too short for most people to be able to make it. We will be trying to arrange a “kids only” shoot for Mother’s Day. Not a lot of details at this time, though. It should be fun, that’s all I know. My photos from the Haiti benefit show at Boardriders Boca on 29 Jan still aren’t done processing, which sucks because I need to get them out by next week when I see Black Weather Shaman and Everymen again. Hopefully we’ll have our cards by then too so we can hand some out.
I purchased the lauded Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX lens last week and problems aside, it’s everything people claim it to be. Fast focusing, quiet, and sharp. I’ve found it to be more sharp wide open than my 50mm f/1.8D AF, but only slightly. I will test it out next week at the BWS/Everymen show in Lake Worth.
I also got my Nexus One this week and so far, I love it. Aside from spending a whole day trying to figure out why my contacts didn’t work, it’s a really nice phone. I think the vertical keyboard could have slightly larger keys but other than that, I don’t have too many problems with the phone. I’ve downloaded Swype and while I do like it, it’s not good for any non-common word with repeating letters in it such as names or words like “between”. It’s got a learning curve but it’s not too bad, just takes practice. Compared to my ex’s G1, this thing is blazing. I could tell her Android install was aging but I didn’t realize the stark difference between 1.0 and 2.1 until this week. What a year of active use and development makes.
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A smile and a nod – Photo of the Day #50!
February 3rd, 2010 • photography
Tags: photo of the day, photography, project365, yashica
This is the absolute best picture I got out of a recent roll of Kodak HD 400 color film using my Yashica Electro35 GSN. We were leaving the house pretty quickly and I just asked Jess to smile and this is what came out, I’m VERY happy with it.
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