Don's D750 Dabblings

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Another dam photo

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Had been out shooting roofs with my drone this morning when I ran across this.

 

[Dawg Pics]

Had been out shooting roofs with my drone this morning when I ran across this.

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Wow, almost looks like a movie set. Was that a residence?

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Wow, almost looks like a movie set. Was that a residence?

Yes. This is only part of it. The guy is dead now and much of his "cross garden" is gone now. I have a few more from today I will have to add.


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[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

The Hustle and Bustle of the big city

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Life is like a journey, taken on a train
With a pair of travelers at each windowpane.
I may sit beside you all the journey through,
Or I may sit elsewhere, never knowing you.
But if fate should make me sit by your side,
Let’s be pleasant travelers; it’s so short a ride.
– Anonymous

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Another Dam Photo

Flooding after several days of rain.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

I finally got smart and thought through something in advance. I wanted to shoot the fireworks this year again for out little town. Last year I did sell a few prints and many people really liked them. This year I decided I wanted to do a slide show and prints. The key was consistency. I looked at last years shots and knew what aperture, shutter speed, ISO and focal length I shot last year so I set that all up before I left home. I went to the site before dark and focused the lens to the correct distance and did a few test shots just to make sure. Once the fireworks started I started shooting using a cable release so I did not have to touch the camera. I did check the first few shots to verify that all was what I wanted.

The first thing I did was to import them into Lightroom and adjust the first photo for color balance and whatever else needed tweaking. Then synced the setting on the rest of the shots and videos with that. Now all 98 shots and 2 videos match and look good. I then carried them into a video editing program and made a slide show set to patriotic music and uploaded it to YouTube. Next was to crop the first photo to Portrait 8X10 format (So standard frames will work) left enough of a fudge factor so that any size crop will work. Again after the first shot was cropped I again synced the rest of the photos to it and then using Lightroom I uploaded all the shots to my SmugMug site. I also had time to fix and eat a sandwich. The fireworks started a 9PM and I was finished before 11PM.


I think I may have to start planing ahead more often.

Here are the finished photos

July 4th, 2017 - Don Kuykendall

 

[Dawg Pics]

Those look fantastic. Your planning paid off.

 

[Moab Man]

I am so jealous of the mill you have as a backdrop that I might just have to move there. Second thought, it rains there. I will stay here in the desert.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

It's bicycle time

 

[Roy1961]

I am so jealous of the mill you have as a backdrop that I might just have to move there. Second thought, it rains there. I will stay here in the desert.

but doesnt it snow there?

 

[Moab Man]

but doesnt it snow there?

It does snow here, but I can go most of the summer and never see rain but once or twice.

 

[Marilynne]

It's bicycle time

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These are some crazy looking bikes Don. Would love to have seen some one riding them!

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

A few from the old factory

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Have been sick or to cold to shoot in 2018 but finally got out today. Had Surgery on Tuesday and was going stir crazy. Beautiful day today so grabbed the camera and shot a few.

 

[Marilynne]

Will you be totally better for CBB?

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Will you be totally better for CBB?

I did 9000 steps yesterday which for me was a good day. I am ready to go.


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[Dawg Pics]

Speedy recovery!