37 posts tagged “dan newton”
A few of us drove up to Tahoe for some good times and long exposures. The first shot works out to be about 1.5 hours of exposure with the 10.5mm. The second photo is a stitched panorama composed of 4 photos taken at ISO 3200 @f/3.2 with my new Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8.
Sorry for the rant...
In my last post I mentioned that I had lost a 2GB memory card full of photos from our camping trip at the Black Rock desert. I tore apart EVERYTHING looking for it and nothing. I spent almost an entire day cleaning my car, double and triple checking my camera bags, unpacking all my camping equipment and making phone calls to the places we stopped on the trip.
A couple days ago, after I had finally accepted that my photos were lost forever, I received a call from someone saying they found my card! The card must have fallen out of the car when we made a brief stop 100 miles away from home.
Moral of the story: label your memory cards with your contact info and make backups on the spot if possible!
Although I'm way behind in my editing, here's a couple from that card...
Here are some watches I recently shot for a client who sells on ebay. He specifically asked for photos that were realistic looking but professional *whatever that means*. I used my two studio heads with large softboxes and combined with my sb800 to shoot most of these.
The Navitimer is worth something like $4000. The other two watches were worth around a grand each.
This was only visible sign of life that we found during our expedition inside the multiple mile long wooden flume near Reno, NV. Fielding, Nick, Tony and I spend hours exploring and photographing this amazing find!
The flume turned out to be a fairly dangerous place as one of the photographers in our group almost fell through the rotten, wooden floor. We could see light coming through the floor in places. The flume runs about 15-20 feet above the ground, so falling through would not have been too fun.
Here are a couple of long exposure shots with the new cam. Noise performance is really great compared to my old D200. The last two photos were taken WITHOUT long exposure noise reduction.
Verdi bridge (look closely for the train), 12 mins, f/8 @ ISO 200 with the fisheye, daylight WB.
Robb Drive Overpass: 6mins, f/8 @ ISO200, noise reduction off, 12-24mm
I finally got my new camera on Monday and I've been really itching to shoot something, so I decided to play around with some flowers.
Comments welcome...
Another old one...
Since I haven't had a camera for a while, I figured I'd start to post some older photos I never got around to editing.
Be sure to click through to the full version as Vox overshaprens the image when it resizes it.
Here is one from July:
Unfortunately, sometime within the last few months, I was diagnosed with a very expensive illness that makes for cold, sleepless nights and long periods of time staring at the sky. That's right, the astronomy bug.
Being a very wide field with so much to learn and so many different things to try, getting into astronomy reminds me very much of the overwhelming, yet exciting feeling I had when venturing into photography.
So, for the last few clear nights, I've been stargazing through the glory of a big 10" scope (a Meade LX200R). It is a truly amazing piece of hardware: GPS, super smooth slewing and tracking and Ritchey-Chretien optics (same as the Hubble).
Last night was the first night ever (after only 3 nights of viewing), that I decided to try some down and dirty astro-photography. I say "down and dirty" because true astro-photographers use a complex method of photography involving two cameras, one for guiding the scope through a finder scope, and one for doing the imaging itself. The advanced guys also take advantage of a CCD's linear exposure recording and "stack" multiple images of the same scene for the benefit of better dynamic range and noise performance.
Top left: M42: The Great Orion Nebula
Bottom left: Saturn in the Distance
Comments welcome...
Two from last night. Comments Welcome.
