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Day 221, 2013 - Speed Week, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah - Fastest Place on Earth I'm here for Speed Week, actually today and the first day as I have Goblin Valley on Monday. Heading out on to the salt I truly fell in love with my Tokina 11-16mm lens. The color is spectacular and the image is...

Day 220, 2013 - Storm Clouds Spectacular storm clouds over the Wasatch Front Mountain Range. Shot this to be black and white as it looks far more dramatic and with the Tokina 11-16mm to capture the monstrously rising clouds. I'm not one that sees many pictures in front of me that scream black...

Continued... Day 219 My daughter has come to realize how crappy the typical Facebook photo is from cellphones and asked me to shoot some pictures for her. Let me know what you think.

From time-to-time people ask about photographing race cars. I came upon this article interviewing race photographer Jamey Price. Page one is interview stuff. Page two (mid-page) on contains different suggestions and tips so I linked from page two. You can always jump to page one if you want the...

Day 219, 2013 - Tripod I have a large heavy quality tripod that is great for shooting long exposure stuff because it stays put. I also had an old "cheap" one from many many years ago, like more than a decade, that I loved. It was small, lightweight, and cheap from then was far better than some...

Day 218, 2013 - Mayfly or Fishfly I had posted this at like 0100 this morning but obviously it never posted. Little guy showed up on the glass to hang out a while. Extremely patient with me taking its picture. Ours here in Utah are about 1/4 the size they are back east.

Day 217, 2013 - asics GEL-VENTURE 3 Kodiak has this thread going on product shots. Although I don't see myself needing to shoot one, I never want to pass up the opportunity to learn a new skill so I thought I would give it a try yesterday. However, yesterdays (Day 216 - Tokina) sucked as a...

Less empty space and lower yourself to get down on the cats level eye to eye. While this is not a great shot, the vertical lines should have been corrected and the shot straightened. And the backdrop is ugly, but the look on the cats face (reason I shot it) gives you a feeling that you're about...

Day 216, 2013 - Tokina Lens Product Shot Harder than I thought to do a product shot. I can't even figure out how the right side of the shot had more light than the left. But this gives me one more thing to work out and learn.

Here you go... it's a horrible shot quickly fired to not keep you waiting. It was at 11mm. Lens: Tokina AT-X116 Pro DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8

I will be heading out to the Bonneville Salt Flats for the first day of Speed Week. August 10th, 2013. If there are any other brain damaged Nikonites, if not already you will be after spending the day, that will be out there give me a shout on this thread. It should be a blast of 100+ degree...

Day 215, 2013 - Flower Much quicker to go out and shoot today's picture since I now have a proper place to shoot this type of photo which brings me to the next project... lighting. But all in good time. As for this picture. White on flowers is such a bear to shoot. Some of the petals a more...

Day 214, 2013 - Flower Late last night I went out to my studio and framed/hung a black cloth backdrop in front of my green screen wall on a pulley system so that I would have something a bit more solid to work with. Then I built a pedestal to place objects for photographing. After a few hours...

Continued... Day 213 Apple Orchard

Day 213, 2013 - Learning to shoot a wide angle. Wide angles are tough to shoot! As I was told by a few people now, they have a learning curve and a set of rules all their own. Things can make it into a shot you never even thought were within range of the lens. Seeing something cool to shoot...

Day 212, 2013 - Rocket Launch Last day of summer school science class so we finish it off with a few rocket launches.

Day 211, 2013 - 11mm Star Shot So I went out tonight to shoot a bad photo. I know you can't shoot the stars in the city very well due to all the light pollution. However, I have a trip coming up specifically to shoot the Milky Way and the Perseids Meteor Shower (although one day late of the...

Day 210, 2013 - Tokina AT-X 116 Pro DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8 My new lens, and most expensive to date, arrived today - Tokina 11-16mm. Before going out to shoot with the lens I called upon a friend to give me some insight on shooting with an ultra ultra wide angle. My friend explained it can be a...