The cool nights result in heavy morning mist or fog rolling off the grass. This wasn't the most of it. At first light the fog was dense in the little depression between the hills. I needed to shoot 3 exposures and process as an HDR to capture some of the full range of light.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Danielle
Danielle prior to going to Church. Strobist Info : SB-900 into 60" Impact reflected umbrella above. SB-800 and SB-600 camera right and left respectively and behind model for side hair light. Triggered with on board pop up flash with IR pass through filter in front.
Baby Kitty at the Farm
Over Labor Day weekend, we visited Becky's parents. Here is a baby kitty at the farm. Natalie is holding it.
Friday, September 11, 2009
A Close view of Brent
That sparkle in his eye ... . Brent is as always a patient model. Strobist info - SB-900 into reflected 60" Impact umbrella with black backing on. SB-800 and SB-600 at model right and left respectively and slight behind to provide contour / edge light.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Katherine and Baby Benjamin
Katherine and Baby Benjamin came and visited. Ana, Venito, Venito Jr, Sonia as well as my parents came out. Katherine gets a moment to catch up by texting Edward who is in the Airforce training.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
A Cloudy Afternoon
A Cloudy afternoon. Here is a view facing southwest on our property. Shot mid morning.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
A cloudy day at the Christensen house
A cloudy day at the Christensen house. Here's a photo a made a few weeks back taken mid afternoon.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Green Peppers
Fresh Green Peppers. Becky and I went out and picked just the biggest peppers. There are still a lot on the bushes. This is a huge bowl with about 40 peppers in it. After it sat in the photography room for a day, there was this wonderfully aromatic fresh green pepper smell.
Strobist info: SB-900 into 60" Impact shoot through umbrella camera right. SB-800 into 45" Impact umbrella reflected with black backing on camera left. SB-600 through pringles can snoot camera left at 10 oclock hidden from view of the camera by styrofoam board. On board pop up flash used for commanding as well as adding some on axis fill at 1/8. I calculated that I wanted close to 1 foot of Depth of field and thus at a focus distance of about 4 feet with my 50mm prime lens I needed to shoot at a minimum of f/10.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Morning Sun and Dew on a Country Road
Morning Sun and Dew on a country Road. The morning that I went out had so many interesting photography sights. The fog in the valley to the left looks just like continuation of the clouds but is actually dense fog covering the valley. The golden field is actually ripe peas. The field to the right is soybeans
Down in the Valley
Down in the Valley, the Valley so low, hang your head over, and see the fog blow. I got up early one morning and noticed lots of fog in the valley. I drove around looking for interesting photo locations. Here is about a mile from our place. Looking over a ripe pea field, with a distant river valley.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Vetch in the Morning
Vetch in the Morning: Sabbath morning I got up and drove around with the four wheeler looking at interesting sites to photograph on our property. The sky was contrasty with clouds and the sun peeking through. A cool 60 degree morning in the middle of July!
Sweet corn early in the morning
July has been cool. The corn isn't growing quite as quick as last year, but is still doing well. I planted two varieties - an early and late yield. The early variety has tassles and the begining of ears. The late variety is several weeks at least behind.
Sweet corn early in the morning
July has been cool. The corn isn't growing quite as quick as last year, but is still doing well. I planted two varieties - an early and late yield. The early variety has tassles and the begining of ears. The late variety is several weeks at least behind.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Vetch against the Southern sky
Here is another view of the vetch patch -- now facing south. This was a less contrasty scene and it made it easier to capture the full range in a 3 shot HDR. Brent was sitting on the 4-wheeler. I had to lay down in the grass and vetch to be able to look through the view finder. The sky looks particularly interesting I think with the wide angle in portrait orientation.
View of Vetch
Here is a wild patch of vetch in my field. The clouds looked great with streams of glory coming through. Brent and I got on the four wheeler and zoomed out across the field. I setup the tripod while he looked on from where he was sitting in the grass. I shot several shots in bracketed mode. A deer was across the fence watching us about 75 yards away. A beautiful evening as it led into Sabbath
Monday, July 6, 2009
Sunlight showing through the clouds
3 shot HDR shot handheld a few evenings ago in mid June. The term glory refers to sun showing through the clouds. This is faced west and I'm standing just west of our house.
View of Rochester
One morning before work I stood atop the parking garage and facing north I took a few photos. There was quite a bit of humidity in the air that you can see in the right portion of the photo.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Dad
Dad was over this winter and patiently sat for me while I photographed him testing out variouis lighting setups. Thanks!
Fishing on a deserted reservoir in Missouri.
The photos are ordered chronologically for the story. A visual tour of the location we found. It was fun hiking up through here and seeing the old stone house. The house was deserted inside with thick layers of dust. We did hike all the way out through the forest down an old overgrown gravel lane to a gate across the driveway leading out onto an old gravel road. It had a nondescript sign saying "Do not block driveway" and that was it.
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