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Flickr Portrait Shoot

Josh — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:54:15 +0000

I’m a member of a local Flickr group, and we got together yesterday to take some portrait shots of some very accommodating models. It was pretty cool, and was my first chance to try some shots using off camera lighting. I don’t think I did too bad, but it sure made me learn that:
A) I have a lot to learn
B) Compared to the people there, my equipment is peanuts
C) Post processing is your friend.

Anyway, here are the photos, and have a gander.

Flickr Photoshoot

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Random Photos

Josh — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:55:46 +0000

Below are some random photos I’ve been taking the last day or so with my camera, flash, and light tent. The photos of Buzz are kind of interesting (to me anyways) because they demonstrate how a light tent can help you get some great photos. I did include a photo where I hit Buzz straight on with the flash, just to demonstrate the difference between bouncing a flash and using one straight on. Long story short, bouncing = better. The other photos are just random photos of the kids.

Buzz and Kids

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Christmas 2010

Josh — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 02:18:06 +0000

I thought I’d share some pics from this morning (Christmas 2010). These were taken with my D60, with my new SB400 flash attached, bouncing it off the ceiling (which happens to be off white, and has added a taupe cast to some of the images). The header image is the milk and cookies for Santa, along with carrots and fruit loops for his reindeer. Why fruit loops? Somehow, one of my twins got it into her head that his reindeer like fruit loops, and who am I to tell her that’s wrong. For all I know they do like fruit loops. Anyway, enjoy the photos and I hope you all had a Merry Christmas.

Christmas 2010

Fox Island

Josh — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:02:49 +0000

I went to a nature/macro photography class this weekend at Fox Island, where I got to use a nice Tamron 10-24mm super wide angle lens. Here are some of the photos I took with it, they turned out pretty nice I think.

Fox Island

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Lindenwood

Josh — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:50:37 +0000

We took a short family trip to Lindenwood today. It was a pretty fun time, and the scenery was awesome. We plan on heading back in a few weeks to catch all the fall colors.

I took my camera (of course) and took a ton of photos. I’ve sorted through them to find some good ones, and I thought people might be interested to see them, so here they are.

Lindenwood

Johnny Appleseed 2010

Josh — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:28:57 +0000

We went to the annual Johnny Appleseed festival today, so of course I took my camera along. I didn’t take as nearly as many pictures this year as I did last year. Last year I pretty much shot everything that moved or anything that I thought looked even the least bit interesting. This year I tried to take good photos as opposed to taking many photos.

I don’t know if this means I’m getting better at photography, or lazier, but I think the results were pretty good. The main image of this post is a guy that was manning one of the tents with toys for children (popguns, bow and arrows, etc) and I thought this portrait shot of him turned out well. Just a note, the baby doll photo is fairly creepy, so don’t blame me if you have nightmares.

Anyway, let me know what you think.

Johnny Appleseed

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Just messing around

Josh — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:00:29 +0000

I had some free time, and I didn’t really know what to take photos of, so here you go, it’s me just messing around. I took these with my 50mm lens, which as you can tell by the last pic of the tiger, has great shallow DOF. Anyway, let me know what you think.

9/15/2010

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Apple Picking

Josh — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:25:52 +0000

I had the day off, so I grabbed my twin girls and headed out to my mothers house to go apple picking. It was a beautiful day, and we all had a lot of fun. It was pretty neat seeing the apple orchard along with the beehives that they bring in so that the trees are pollinated.

I brought my camera along and snapped some photos while we were there. I’ve uploaded some of my favorites, so let me know what you think. These were all taken with my D60, combo of my 50mm and Sigma 70-300mm lenses, in manual or aperture priority mode. As always, click the FS button to see them in full screen.

Apple Picking

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Random Sampling of Photos

Josh — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:28:36 +0000

Nothing major to report. My sons first week of kindergarten went smashingly well. They have a red/yellow/green light system there, and the kids that stay on the green light all week get a prize at the end of the week. He managed to stay on green light and got a nifty flashlight. A couple of the kids ended up on yellow light and I thought “woah buddy, those kids are in for a rough year”.

On another note, here are a random sampling of photos that I took today. I like all of these for one reason or another, but if you see anything YOU like, then drop me a line. (As always, push the FS button to get the fullscreen “higher rez” version.)

Random Photos 8/28

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Cool Flower Photos

Josh — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:14:09 +0000

Well…I haven’t posted in quite awhile because I’ve been pretty busy. This is going to be a quick too. So…enjoy these photos of flowers that I took at my mothers house the other day.

Flowers 7-27-2010

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