April 29, 2009

A friend and I took a little trip to Charleston, WV and had a little walk about to shoot a few shots. We were able to get some interesting shots and could have spent all evening doing more, but after 3 hrs, I was ready to quit.
Hope you enjoy and I learned a lot with the photowalk with the club the other night and loved doing it again in a new area.

April 25, 2009

Our local camera club had a photowalk last night in Huntington, WV and we had a good time shooting and talking, mostly talking I think, but it was fun to see and listen to the others in the club shoot shots and say what they were trying to do.

Here are a couple of shots from last night and you can see more on my picasa web album.

April 24, 2009

Had a few minutes to play today so I thought I would do a little work on some old shots. I am headed to the photoshoot walkabout this evening and hope to get some cool shots and also learn a lot from the others there.

April 22, 2009

Ran out yesterday evening to try to shoot a couple of shots using a flash with a soft box on it to do some experimenting with macro. I had a couple of really open tulips that were giving me a good shot inside, but the hard part was the wind.
These were shot with a Canon 580EXII flash and a Gary Fong flash head and a soft cloth over that to diffuse the light. Used the 5D with 24-105 lens and a 36mm extensiton tube.

April 15, 2009

Went to the Alligator farm with my grandson and we were able to have a good time shooting some birds and chasing some gators. I love this kind of shooting and family fun with my grandson

April 14, 2009

Can you spell RAIN and WIND? It poured all night and most of the day, so I had a little time to sit and look at some of the shots I had taken but not had time to really look over. Here are a couple I played with to see if I could make something out nothing.

April 13, 2009

Went to shoot some things other than macro and got to shoot some birds flying, nothing was really out but did get a couple of shots while playing with speed and IS settings.

April 12, 2009

Still playing around today doing some macro instructions for a friend and was able to get a couple of good shots. I was showing him how to use a long lens with extenders and/or extension tubes to shoot these where you cannot use a standard marco lens.

April 11, 2009

After taking the kids to the Community Easter Egg Hunt, I was walking back to the house when I saw the water lily and tried to get a shot. All I had was a 24-105 lens with me, so I will try again later with the 400mm. I was pleased with the results as i stook in the water and leaned out trying to get as close as possible. I sure hope there are no gators in this pond.

April10, 2009

While the grandkids and family were shopping, I stayed and did some shooting of the local animal life in the backyard. I shot the Anoles with 400mm with 2x
I wanted to get a few shots of these as they ran along the fence, which I was able to do.

April 9, 2009

I was out shooting some pictures in the neighborhood today and found a nice pond with some interesting things to shoot for some Macro shots. I used my old standby 100-400 IS Canon lens and a 2X teleconverter to get the up close and personal shots. I also tried to use some extension tubes, but found it was hard to get the right distance for the shot.

April 5, 2009

Spring is here, well for a few days anyway. I was out crawling around yesterday looking for some flowers to practice marco shots on and came away with a couple ok ones. These were shot with a 100-400 lens and extension tubes, 3 tubes and handheld.