Technology Thoughts and Ideas
I know, I know… you have been asking yourself… I wonder what Steve’s drive to work and back home is like. You look at maps, analyze traffic patterns, try to follow me around while trying to take notes about stop lights and driving style. In an effort to save your time, save the environment, save … Read more
A friend of mine is a coach of a school basketball team. I have attended a few games this year and have been trying in improve my technique at indoor basketball photography. Small school gyms are not lit very well, darker at the hoop end and over all not enough light for “easy” photography. The … Read more
In a previous post I reviewed my first attempt of time lapse with my DSLR. This time I did a little post processing on the images and more importantly I took pictures every twelve seconds. This did help as you can now see someone enter and leave the frame. This was over 800 RAW images, … Read more
Every Christmas Eve my wife, son and I go to Shogun in Louisville Kentucky, it’s similar to Benihana…they cook at that table. Anyway, we always enjoy ourselves and eat too much! I did manage to re-frame from using 3 vivitar 285’s on 1/16th power with softboxes and bounce flash. Looking back I do regret not … Read more
Below are some pictures with some heavy post processing. These were with my “new to me” Minolta Maxxum 7D. For the most part the 7D is a great camera. A little slow in the focus and only 3 FPS. I did do a bit of “dramatic” post processing on these images.
This was my first attempt at Time Lapse, I set up my camera on a tall light stand and set the remote to take a picture every 30 seconds. I put in a 8GB CF card and was able to capture 450 pictures until my batter failed. The battery was only 45% full when I … Read more
We went to Cedar Rapids Iowa, visiting my father. We stopped in Kansas Ill and Urbana Ill. Some of the buildings in the photos are houses I used to live in as a kid, my high school and other places of sentimental value to me.
The Smoky Mountains have some wonderful woods and vistas. In person it is much better but I hope I captured the basics of the place.
Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge Tennessee is tucked in text to the Smoky Mountains. These cities have a lot of tourist activities, go carts, shopping, shows, indoor skydiving, dining, aquariums a lot of stuff. Below are some of the locations we visited.