Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas, everyone! Have a wonderful Christmas, and a very safe and happy New Year! Hopefully, I will see you in the Spring for round 2 of the Master Class!

~Steph

Field Trip - Lyell

Here are my submissions from the field trip to the capital:

Best Shot:

A little creative license in post processing:

Light Trail :

Zooming Practice
Just liked this one:

A little Political Satire:

Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas!

Miss the class and everyone in it!

"December 12th Field Trip"

f/8 Shutter 2.5, WB T ungsten ISO 200

"Masters at Work"

Christmas Light

Shutter 3 sec F 4.0 ISO 400 AWBSpot Metering. I was trying to make the light streaks come from the adult and child.

Top Picture F4.5 Shutter Speed 1/4 ISO 400 Taken at 1655

Bottom Picture F 5.6 Shutter 1/6 ISO 400 Taken at 1645 Both WB of Tungsten

Tree's point of view.

Shutter 1/10 sec
F4.5
Spot Metering
ISO 800
People from the tree's point of view.

Annie on a Tree

Shutter 3 sec

F5.6

Spot Metering

ISO 800

Just a simple picture of the different items on the tree.

Tired Horses

Shutter 1/13

F4.5

Spot metering

ISO 1600

I like this picture because it looks like what parents feel like the night before Christmas.

Note the book over the far horse's head.

Light Box

A couple of weeks ago I included an isolated photo of a Holy sprig and said that I had used a home made light box. Barbra asked me to post pictures of it. I have been a little slow about getting around to it but, I had it set up to day so here are the pictures.

here is a link to a tutorial:

http://http//strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html

A Few More from the Toy Parade

Just a couple of other pictures from the Toy Parade on Saturday. The Husky wanted to leave but master wanted to stay.

Lines & Curves

This scene caught my eye with the horizontal and vertical lines of the building set against the big curve of the walkway in front.
f/6.3 @ 1/400sec, iso 400

Assignment - Picture Styles - Lyell

The top two photos: Same shot top with circular polarizer filter second one without.

Bottom 6 photos all same settings except different Styles
Shutter speed 1/1000 Aperture f5.0 ISO 100 Focal Length 100 Auto White Balance

Monochrome Mode

Faithful Mode

Neutral Mode

Landscape Mode

Portrait Mode

Standard Mode

Field Trip Question

Why do I have a ghost set of traffic lights.

Field Trip 12/6/09 - Bill

I was not able to make the field trip on the 5th so I went with the other class on the 6th. Barbara wanted to show us more about capturing light and how much impact light changes can make on your photos. Here are 2 photos I took at the same spot.
They were both shot at f/8.0 ISO: 100 WB: Tungsten.
The first one was shot at 4:33 PM with a shutter speed of 3 seconds.
The second one was shot 30 minutes later at 5:03 PM with a shutter speed of 5 seconds.
As there was less daylight and more tungsten street lights the photo really warmed up but there was still a lot of light in the sky to give a nice dark blue color.

Downtown Olympia Field Trip- Andrea

The first is just a fun one of my view from the trolly.

f/5.6 1/125

ISO 125

24 mm

Auto WB

I took this picture because I liked the still water with the reflections of the boats in it. I was looking mainly at the lines, balance, and colors and later realized there is no real focal point in the image, except maybe the wooden house? I also like the colors and the business of all the lines juxtaposed with the stillness of the water.

f/8

1/125

ISO 125

70 mm

Auto WB

The wood carvings in the door with the light shining on it first caught my attention. Then I noticed the cool door pulls and the dark shadows behind them. I like all the neat shapes...lines and circles, highlights and shadows.

f/8

1/80

ISO 125

52 mm

Auto WB

Another boat image, again with no real focal point. Does that matter? I usually take pictures with a focal point in mind, but since I was only looking at shapes, light, shadows, textures, etc., I later realized there is no focal point... except maybe the larger boat on the left? Hmm, so much to think about. It would have been nice to have a graduated filter for this picture to help with the sky.

f/8

1/125

ISO 125

70 mm

Auto WB

Dave W - 12/5/09 Downtown Oly Field Trip

I'm really glad others uploaded more than one photo because I was having a hard time deciding.


I really like biker santa here, mostly because of the brighter colors against the rusty metal and brown building. Also the feeling of motion.

F5.6
1/125s
ISO 800
+1.0 EV

I like this shot because I feel the motion, especially the second bike, and I like the reflection in the gas tank of the close bike.

F6.3
1/100s
ISO 400
+0.0 EV


Here I like the contrast between the official state building the fun christmas lights. Also the color of the lights and I enhanced the raw image to bring out the sky.

F25
1/60s
ISO 400
+1.0 EV


I actually went back the next day because I've been wanting to take a picture here. I like that the RR tracks lead me into the photo and so does the wall on the right. I like the colors of the writing on the wall and how they contrast the otherwise darker scene. I also changed the WB of the raw in the software to enhance the colors.

F8
1/125s
ISO 200

12/05 Field Trip - Olympia Toy Run / Vacation

My ears are still ringing from the 10,000 bikers who consumed the downtown area on Saturday afternoon while delivering their toys to the Salvation Army. I chose these two pictures and also added a few from our vacation the week before.