2nd Thirty Days – Day Fourteen
Posted on Thursday, 18 March 2010 @ 7:12pm by David
Heather and Kolton Carmichael at Stephens Lake Park | Canon 7D and 300mm f/4L lens; exposed 1/200 sec. @ f/4, ISO 200.
2nd Thirty Days – Day Thirteen
Posted on Wednesday, 17 March 2010 @ 8:19pm by David
Sarah Flagg at the window | Canon 5D Mk. II and 50mm f/1.4 lens; exposed 1/125 @ f/1.4, ISO 320.
One of a series of portraits I’ll eventually be posting, made at the place where I work for my assistantship at the University of Missouri as the photojournalism sequence’s equipment manager. This is the “window” where students come to check out photo gear to supplement their own to complete assignments and personal projects.
2nd Thirty Days – Day Twelve
Posted on Tuesday, 16 March 2010 @ 9:00pm by David
Late afternoon exercise, Stephens Lake Park, Columbia, Mo. | Canon 5D Mk. II and 70-200mm f/4L IS lens @ 93mm; exposed 1/125 sec. @ f/4, ISO 800.
2nd Thirty Days – Day Eleven – Sunset over the Locust Street Mosque
Posted on Monday, 15 March 2010 @ 8:50pm by David
Sunset over the Locust Street Mosque | Panasonic Lumix G1 and 45-200mm f/4-5.6 lens @ 175mm; exposed 1/1600 @ f/5.6, ISO 400.
We had a wonderful sunset tonight in Columbia, and I can only hope that’s a good sign for the projects that lay ahead.
2nd Thirty Days – Day Ten
Posted on Sunday, 14 March 2010 @ 10:06pm by David
Chelsea and John | Canon 7D and 24-70mm f/2.8L lens @ 28mm; exposed 1/250 sec. @ f/4, ISO 800.
Today, while walking out of Broadway Brewery from an early dinner–sans $5 pint glass that I paid for, because those are even easier to leave on the table than a to-go box–with John and Chelsea, I let them walk ahead of me because I could sense that something weirdly endearing was about to happen. Here’s the advantage of Aperture Priority, folks: I dialed it up to f/4 and bumped the exposure compensation to +1 EV because I knew that the cloudy sky would fool the light meter into thinking the situation was more neutral than it really was.
Could I have retained some detail in the sky at +2/3 instead of +1? Possibly, but I’d rather have the shadow detail. The sky isn’t what matters in a picture like this. Furthermore, in post-processing in Adobe Lightroom, I added another stop, so I could have gone even brighter, but I had properly exposed to the right, so this was less of a problem than it sounds.
If I’d been in manual, I would have had to ratchet up my shutter speed very rapidly, and this is something that you don’t always have time to do. And when you don’t, you’re happy you know how to compensate for the whole scene, and get it right in the first exposure!
2nd Thirty Days – Day Nine
Posted on Saturday, 13 March 2010 @ 7:30pm by David
Josh Bickel | Nikon D50 and 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens @ 48mm; exposed 1/13 sec. @ f/5.6, ISO 1600.
Yesterday, while working for my assistantship, I was trying to illustrate a point to a student in one of the more basic photography classes that is actually taught by a fellow graduate student, Phoebe Sexton, that while I could not equip him with the camera and lens that he wanted because of a lack of availability, even an old Nikon D50 and a basic 18-55mm lens can yield good images. It’s the experienced hand, not the equipment. Sure, the gear helps, but still. Now, if only I had checked the settings he was using before Josh Bickel assisted me in making my point, I would have told it not to add two thirds of a stop too much light…
I’ve also included a couple more images from last night, of my hosts for the evening, Val and Jamie, and some of my closer friends:
2nd Thirty Days – Day Eight
Posted on Saturday, 13 March 2010 @ 5:08pm by David
This was supposed to go up on Friday, Mar. 12. The best laid plans…
I’m also in a black-and-white kick at the moment. It soon shall pass, I’m sure.
Walking down Ninth Street, Columbia, Mo. | Panasonic Lumix G1 and 45-200mm f/4-5.6 lens @ 115mm; exposed 1/1600 sec. @ f/5, ISO 800.
2nd Thirty Days – Day Seven
Posted on Friday, 12 March 2010 @ 12:12am by David
I guess I won't be going this way! | Panasonic Lumix G1 and 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 lens @ 26mm; exposed 1/50 sec. @ f/5, ISO 400.
I walked out of my apartment Thursday morning to head down the hall to get my car and go in to school when I discovered that the reason I thought I heard footsteps on the ceiling above me is because there were, indeed, people walking about the roof…and the folding ladder was (in)conveniently between myself and my destination. I took the back way, but not before making this picture…my only one on Thursday.
