I got my B&W 10 stop ND filter in today. I thought those shots of rivers and lakes with super glassy water were amazing. Being a wakeboarder and VERY newbie barefooter, I know glassy water is very rare, so there had to be a trick. The “trick” is using a 10 stop ND filter. This allows you to take pictures with VERY slow shutter speeds. I’m talking like 3,5,10,20,30 second shutter speeds. Without the filter, even if you crank up the f/stop, it will still be too bright during the day. With this dark filter on, it requires more light to correctly expose.
Jul 252011
Took some pictures of my friend’s pet snakes. I can’t say that a lot of stuff makes me nervous to be around but this little guy creeped me out the most at first. There is another shot where I’m on the ground and I let it crawl to me and I take pics as it gets closer. Due to the lens being a wide angle, the snake looked farther away than it really was and when my lens stopped focusing, it was because the snake was touching the glass of the lens. All of these snakes were pretty chill, especially the big one!
With the hot summer weather in Oklahoma, you gotta get outside and do your work before it gets too hot, and today that didn’t happen. Showed up at around 9a and it was already pretty hot. I didn’t get too many shots, but got to try some stuff out with my photography and learned a few things. Like maybe I do need a wide angle lens, and my 17-50mm isn’t wide enough. Oh well, got a couple cool shots!
Jul 052011
So last year I took some pictures at my friend Dusty’s house. It was kinda just blowing stuff up on his concrete slab where his shop use to be. Sometimes the fireworks would leave the ground like they were suppose to. Pumped up from the awesome shots I got last year, I had high expectations of the pics I was going to get tonight. I think I was too close, or the fireworks went too high. Probably the 2nd one. I’ll post this years which is like 6 pictures, then I post some of last year, just so this is worth a blog post.
May 302011
I got a message at about 8a from Dave, saying he was going to the Matt Hoffman Action park in a few hours, so I decided to roll out of bed and head that way. I’m just dying to try out my new Canon 70-200mm and the only real shots I got was from the park yesterday so of course i wanted to go to the skate park to try it out. Went pretty well. I had to stand from the other end of the park because 70mm is pretty close up and it goes all the way to 200mm. I threw on my Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and got in the bowls to get some “down low” shots too.
Apr 222011
Apr 162011
Gave my first attempt at shooting baseball. Learned quite a bit. First off, you want to shoot at nothing slower than 1/2000 and 2nd, when you are shooting kids playing tball, don’t stand behind the kid catching the ball. I had to bail out of a shot and stumbled and dropped my camera. Good thing I was only like a foot off the ground when it hit, and i had my lens hood on. Gave a function check and everything seemed to work just fine. Went the rest of the day shooting even better than what I was before. Maybe dropping the camera made my shots better. I saw another photographer there, that was contracted to shoot the games there. If I had to guess, judging on how huge his lens was, and how his camera was shooting at about 10fps, he had about $7k in gear. I guess little league baseball photography pays good.
Mar 062011
Went to Heartland full auto shoot last night and got to see some class 3 weapons being used. The above shot is of a 308 calibrer rifle that was fully auto. Standing behind the shooter and zooming in, i could feel the heat from the gun, and definally the concussion from the shots deep in my chest. I’d sell all my guns and just buy this one! Don’t forget to buy ammo when it’s on cheap.
Feb 272011
Dusty shooting some skeet with the 12g semi-auto shotgun.