Day 283

We took the kids to a nearby park and had a blast. We took a few photos, and then put the camera away for the rest of the night. Best decision we ever made. Sometimes mental photographs are more important than digital ones.

Canon 30D w/30mm 1.4 Sigma Lens
f/2.8
ISO 200
1/2000sec

Day 282

Shot with the iPhone

Day 281

Day 280

This past weekend I had the chance to do a photo session with some good friends of ours and their children. This was one of my favorite shots.

Canon 30D w/85mm 1.8
f/2.2
1/6400sec
ISO 200

Day 279

Shot with the iPhone

Day 278

Shot with the iPhone.

Day 277

Shot with the iPhone 4. And yes, it was the same day as the last post.

Day 276

Shot with the iPhone.

Day 275

Lately, I've been doing a lot of photography. In fact, if I would have an easier way to share it on this blog, I'd have finished my 365 project on-time, rather than still be in this predicament. I take a photo about every day, and on most days, I sometimes take close to 100 photos. Anyways, back to this photo:   This was a shot that I took (and processed) with my iPhone while waiting at a red light in the car. The scenery of Lancaster County is extremely photogenic in any season. It's pretty easy to find great landscape shots around here, you simply have to be there with your camera and you're all set.

Shot with the iPhone

Day 274

Shot with the iPhone

Day 273

shot with the iPhone

Day 272

Shot this today with my phone while helping my wife out with her homework.

Shot with iPhone 4

Day 271

Finally, I had the opportunity to get one of those "standard" waterfall shots with the cotton-candy-looking water while on a hike with our family at Rickett's Glen State Park. While I didn't have one of the necessary pieces of equipment (tripod), I managed to improvise and got this shot, among many others.

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4 Lens
0.5 sec
f/16
ISO 640

(mirror lock-up, timer released, stabilized on railing)

Day 270

Day 269

Audrey was willing to help me play with a neat little app on the ipad, called "softbox pro". It acts as a little softbox that you can use to illuminate your subject and control brightness and shape of the light. The only light used was the ipad, and I got this fun image of heart-shaped catchlights in her eyes.

Canon 30D w/50mm 1.4 lens
f/2.8
1/80sec
ISO 800

Day 268

Shot on the iPhone 4

Day 267

My friend found this crab when we were on the beach, so we took it back to the house for a detailed photo session so that he could use it for further study (He's an artist). The crab was not alive, so it made the job a little easier. We were able to pose it. We used a ping-pong table, paper towels, remote triggers, and two off-camera flashes to get this shot lit right. Lots of prep, but lots of fun too.

Canon 30D w/70-200mm F4L @145mm
1/250sec
f/11
ISO 200

Day 266

Shot this on my vacation from above on a Day Dock. The Jelly fish were so close to the surface of the water, that I was able to get a lot of shots like this.

Canon 30D w/70-200mm F4L lens @200mm
1/200sec
f/4
ISO 100

Day 265

I am not a wildlife photographer nor a bird photographer, but these next few posts do include some animals. This one is of an osprey, which is a rare shot for me. I was very happy with how this one turned out, so I'm sharing it here.

Canon 30D w/70-200mm F4L@200mm
1/2500 sec
f/4
ISO 100

Day 264

Shot with the iPhone 4

Day 263

Shot with the iPhone 4.

Day 262

Somehow, I convinced Liam to let me take a few "studio" shots of him today when he and Audrey came to visit me at work. This was a favorite.

Canon 30D w/85mm 1.8
1/250sec
f/8
ISO 100
3 speedlights fired remotely

Day 261

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4
1/13sec
f/2.8
ISO 320

Day 260

As we celebrate this Memorial Day, I like to pause and personally remember and thank those who have given their lives in service to our country so that my children would be able to enjoy the freedoms that they fought for. To be able to have childhood memories of playing in the backyard in your kiddie pool is not even the least significant of things not to give homage to those who fought for us. Today we remember the fallen.

Canon 30D w/70-200mm f/4L
1/3200sec
f/4
ISO 320

Day 259

Decided to mess around with some trendy effects going around in the photography world these days. I call it the "tilt-shift-expired-film-subtle-grain-vignette-overlay" effect.

Canon 30D w/sigma 30mm 1.4 lens
1/400sec
f/4
ISO 200

Day 258

Admit it. Deep down, you're wishing that you owned a pair of sandals like that.

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4
1/1000sec
f/2
ISO 200

Day 257

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4
1/100 sec
f/2.2
ISO 100

Day 256

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4
1/800sec
f/1.4
ISO 100

Day 255

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4
1/2500sec
f/1.8
ISO 100

Day 254

The average pile of passes to the computer lab on any given day.

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4 lens
1/1600 sec
f/1.4
ISO 800
(Yes, I wasn't paying much attention to exposure.)

Day 253

Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4 lens
1/80sec
f/1.4
ISO 800

Day 252

This photo is probably the first shot I've put on this site that I didn't take at all. In fact, I wasn't even there when it was taken. My wife took it. She is a marvelous photographer in her own rite, and I figured that this image deserved her credit. My contributions would include the post-processing and editing that were done to polish it up.

Canon Rebel XS w/50mm 1.4 lens
1/200 sec
f/1.4
ISO 100

Day 251

Canon 30D w/30mm 1.4 Sigma
1/100sec
f/1.4
ISO 640

Day 250

Yesterday a few former students stopped by to visit and had a chance to pose for some photos for me. I had been researching some ideas earlier that day and I managed to pull together an idea. I like the way that this one worked out.

Canon 30D w/30mm 1.4 Sigma
1/250sec
f/5.6
ISO 200

Day 249

By now any of you following this blog should know that the days that I title these posts don't really correspond to actual days when I took the photos. I've already exceeded a year of time for starting this project. The days are a mere formality. However, I am dedicated to getting 365 photos up on the site in 365 posts. Some posts actually contain more than one photos, so if I were keeping track, I'm probably near the total of 365 "actual" photos. In any case, I am posting one of about 20 photos I took yesterday and today. This one didn't quite nail the focus where I wanted it, but I like it nonetheless.




Canon 30D w/Sigma 30mm 1.4 lens
1/50sec
f/2
ISO 800

Day 248

Yesterday my family and I went out for a nice walk from one end of Lancaster City to the other. I decided to bring along my new 30mm lens to get a feel for the focal length and quality of it. I also decided to challenge myself to shoot in jpeg, which is a file format that doesn't allow a lot of leeway for exposure mistakes.  I haven't been on a photowalk in quite a while, and it was great to exercise the eyes a little and explore. Here are the best of a few photos I took along the way: