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Day 001 9 Minutes and 21 seconds into the first day of the year! (Way past my bedtime!)

I seem to keep finding myself in dark strange places that it wouldn't be very nice to pop off flashes all the time. So I'm thinking I may need to step it up with my lenses a bit. Maybe a 35 or 50mm with a large aperture? 1.4ish? I don't know... Something I need to think about. At the...

Wow! What an adventure tonight! The moon was out, so I ran and got the camera and tripod. Starting shooting, wasn't getting anything I liked. About 50 shots in, I remembered I'm suppose to shut off the VR whilst on the tripod. A few more shots and I remembered f/8.0 is the sweet spot on...

Ok, try try, try again! Let's start with the cutest one, my cousin's son's daughter. I took my cell phone and held it in front of the onboard flash to bounce it onto the wall next to that chair. I was getting strange looks from everyone, but I think it worked. I did use Portrait Professional...

The Adventures of Mr. Snowman! Once upon a time Mr. Snowman was lost in the Christmas Forest. He wanted nothing more than to find his way home to Christmas Village. So off he went! He soon found himself in Cookieland. Oh how he loved Cookieland, but it wasn't home, so he continued on his...

Does anyone use any type of FTP sync to backup their files? I have an offsite web server with unlimited storage and bandwidth. Thought I'd use that to backup photos and other files. Of course I always look at the open source programs available. I think I'm going to try out ftpBox first and...

Here's a macro I took this morning. It's called "Riesling SG 1.090"

I don't even know what you're talking about.

Second time out of the yard with the camera. Things were moving fast, in strange lighting I couldn't figure out. I'm positive the ISO is too high. I completely forgot to check what it was. Ooops! Anticipating the shot. I think I got that part down pat! That focus is still kicking my butt...

The wine is here. The tripod is here. The remote is here. The Rocket Air Blaster I forgot I ordered is here. And now a word from our sponsor. Lovin' that tripod and remote! Can't wait for the storm to blow through so I can get outside with it! Oh well... Good time to start making the wine!

So I'm trying to train my eyes on what to look for in pictures. I've probably been through a thousand different portraits online tonight. My eyes are going bonkers. I think I have some harsh lighting here. Thoughts?

No new photos today. Well, I am trying to capture one of our Greyhounds running, but I'm having an awful time trying to get the focus right. Guess I'm going to have to read the focus chapter again. Anyway, it's a play around in Lightroom kind of day with pictures taken this past weekend...

One more before I go to bed. Just playing around with the DOF. I won't bore you with the twenty pictures I took though.

I would just like to post my general observation as a whole about raw files. WOW! I'm sure most of you already know this, but if you're new like me, you may not have seen why you should shoot raw, in my humble opinion anyway. If you're an old sea dog, move along, there's nothing to see here...

I noticed all that after the fact. I was sitting there playing with the buttons and dials and whatnot because the last train was a complete blur, when out of no where, this train shows up! So I jumped up and got ready! Here's a quick screen grab of the original... So I'm out trying to...

Back, and dried off! The train stalking was a disaster. I'll have to go back out there on a weekday when they run every fifteen minutes like clockwork. They seem to be running every hour or so today. That makes for some LONG waiting. I'm trying to get a train with motion blur... That's...

I'm back! Soaking wet. Not that it rained, but I laid down on the wet muddy ground more than a few times. All to (try and) get that shot! The train shots were a dud, so I'm going to go back out and try again shortly. It's such a nasty looking day out. Dull and colorless. Oh well, I'm...

I know my histogram is suppose to look like this: What the heck is this one? I'm out in the field right now having fun. (literally in the field) I'll read up on that when I get back. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Thanks! That's some math I can grasp, and I'm with you, there's no way that lens could stabilize my caffeine induced body for half a second. Unless there's a $30,000 gyroscope inside that $400 lens. Well, maybe I'll get to go outside today and take some pictures! But right now, the sun is not...

Here's one where I just let the flash do it's thing. I really hate not knowing what it's doing, ya know? My homework tonight... Read the chapter on flash settings and see if I can make any sense of it!