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Archive for April, 2008

sometimes good things happen

Posted in Portfolio, tagged , , , , on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »

I decided to shoot some photos in the yard as the kids were playing. Photography takes practice like anything else, right? These were just experiments, but I think they turned out very nice.

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look around

Posted in Photo, Portfolio, Story, tagged , , on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »

I’m reading books and browsing Flickr. A lot. It’s beginning to sink in.
I took the boys to visit my parents last weekend, and spent a little bit of time shooting.

I’ve read recently, “look up, look down, look behind you”, so I did.

If I hadn’t peeked in the alley, I would have never seen this.

I’ve looked [...]

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goofing around

Posted in Photo, Story, tagged , on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I tried to run out and get a photo of a pair of big barn owls on the roof across the street. I grabbed my longest lens and my tripod and headed outside.
They were gone.
When I came back inside, I was messing around with the long lens, snapping photos of stuff around the house. I [...]

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off-camera flash

Posted in Story, tagged , , , , on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »

I got it!
I managed to get the SB800 to fire remotely, wirelessly, while the on-camera flash did not fire, and I didn’t have to buy any fancy wireless modules or what-not to make it work! Man, I really like this D300.
I set the e3 “Flash cntrl for built-in flash” setting to “commander mode”, set the [...]

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Vacation - the acid test

Posted in Photo, Story, tagged on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »

We’re back, and I’m beginning to process photos. I’m posting some un-processed snapshots, just to give you a feel for what I’m struggling with and how the learning process is coming along.
Family vacations - theme parks, rushing off to the beach, finding a place to park - are not the best time to try to [...]

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