Toy Story

a life of ones and zeros...

you ask yourself after days of work, school, sleep, work, school, sleep...what is there left? photos.  this is what my current state of being looks like.


First shot, I was going for a pacman, original nintendo, atari feel.
Second, I've been wanting to play around with zoom and long shutter speeds...this ended up looking very tron.  (an you tell the second shot is of the same thing as the first?)
Third shot, something that can never be over looked...thinkpad nubbit.  It ended up a little dark, but that's how things have been lately.

Model	Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO	400
Exposure	1/30 sec
Aperture	5.6
Focal Length	55mm
Flash Used	false

Model	Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO	100
Exposure	10.0 sec
Aperture	11.0
Focal Length	18mm
Flash Used	false

Model	Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO	400
Exposure	1/30 sec
Aperture	5.6
Focal Length	55mm
Flash Used	false

Climb Time

On the side, I fancy myself a climber...sometimes...when I'm up to it.  Anywho, Friday was one of those days.  Here are some photos from the gym.  I wanted to emphasize the body shapes (how climbers tend to contort), so I moved the frame to enhance the lines of the body shapes.  I completely broke the "keep the horizon straight" rule.  And in some places broke the "give your person/animal/moving object somewhere to move into).  I hope it worked.  I would like to go back and punch up the color saturation.  It was really dark, indoor, so inorder to capture the speed and get not black images I put my camera into Shutter Priority mode, set the shutter speed to 1/200 and ISO to 6400.  I know...I hate the way it's so noisy.  But otherwise, I'd get some blurrrrrry dynos.  Things I would like to try, turn off the gym lights, get some studio lights and shoot away.  Also, might be cool to mount some head lamps inside of some jugs to get some interesting lighting on climbers faces.  Most of these shots were taken on the same V5 climb.  There's a top rope suspension shot and a V3. Special thanks to my normal climbing partner, Gary.  To Mike et friends.

Threw up more photos in my picasa.

Machinating Macronations...

taking over time and space...these macros are.   I would have liked to reframe the top photo to better place the stamens, but couldn't get things to focus right and the wind, and well...it was cold outside. revisited yellow jacket.  Definitely needs more light and a tripod wouldn't hurt.

M is for Marco.

Fotodiox Macro Extension Tubes play...I know...I need to still do reading and a homework set...and yes, I know that I need to cut ribbon and have another 11 hour day at work tomorrow, but WHO CARES!!! MACROSIOS!!  Better than honey nut cheerios!

Here's my first shots, can you guess what they are?? (ps the answers are provided in the text following the picture...and I didn't take the pictures of the answer because I didn't want to change my lens to do so, so I just googled. =P)

glowing pile of pink rocks?  (link) guess again!

Gold brick?  (link) Nopes!

Human Torch through the window blinds?  (link) Not even close.

I guess...you could say it's a sign!  Macro play is fun and everything becomes so INTERESTING! (what could be more interesting than my digital design book?...after all in each and every design, everyone needs a sign).

Some day, I'll fly away, leave all this to yesterday...

Silly pig, don't you know, toilet paper dreams are nothing more than just that, toilet paper, and we all know what that is good for.  Besides, you're a rock.

ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 5.0
Focal Length: 42mm
Flash Used: No

Fear Through the Lens...

Assignment: Self-portrait with a prop.  I didn't actually enter, but this is what I put together for the assignment.

Camera: Canon
Model: Canon EOS REBEL T2i
ISO: 800
Exposure: 1/40 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Focal Length: 55mm
Flash Used: No

Lighting set up: Me, camera in front of a mirror with single light near my right shoulder.