POW 3/22/09

<p>Well, it is just past midnight on the east coast of the USA.</p>

<p>I truly do not feel like starting the thread this week especially after the news at work this week, but you guys always pick me up, so here it is.</p>

<p>I have a couple of pics left from my Montreal trip from a visit to the Botanical Gardens. A butterfly exhibit.</p>

<p><a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/butterflies/?action=view&current=butterfly1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/butterflies/butterfly1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/butterflies/?action=view&current=butterfly2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/butterflies/butterfly2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> <a href="http://s407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/butterflies/?action=view&current=butterfly6.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp153/marzrw/butterflies/butterfly6.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a> I know you all will submit GREAT captures. Bob</p>

<p>:D I'm wanting to chase some butterflies myself, so you're just making me itch to a little more, Bob!<br /> Well, for his bday (which was 6wks ago), Matt & I went to Oklahoma City for a concert Friday night. Finally got him at a building I've been wanting to photograph for a few years - but it's in a spot I will not stop at when it's just me and the girls. Went a little abstract. And since I kicked out my "establishing shot" from what I would post, I'll just have to tell you it's called "Owl Court" - obviously an old old old hotel, I'm guessing from the 20s or 30s. Somebody's still living in the back buildings, but the front ones are falling apart, and that's where we were.<br /> I hope he posts some of the lensbaby or fisheye playing he was doing. You might get to see the old old gas pump that's there.</p><div></div>

<p>Empty bird bath. Contrast also upped, but certainly not all the way.</p><div></div>

<p>only slight tweaking here.</p>

<p>Oh, thhhpppttt. Stupid server. one more try</p><div></div>

<p>a few from the smokies this past week: (fyi, the last one was handheld at 28mm and 1/10 of a second. hooray for SR.)</p>

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<p>Hi all, still Saturday here in the PST time zone, so a little early, what the heck....</p><div></div>

<p>Elk resting at Jewell Wildlife Meadows</p><div></div>

<p>I really like the last shot Bob. Can't wait till we see some here. Maria, The last one is very good. Nice colours and texture.Ben that tree snake looks like he just finished dinner. Nice shots. Adam, Looks like a good hike. Very nice shot of the stream. John the elk look like easy prey.</p>

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<p>An ongoing hot air balloon fiesta ...<br /><br /><img src="http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/rr235/hchune/Web%20Uploads/IMGP0604.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong>Up Up 'n Away</strong><br /><br /><img src="http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/rr235/hchune/Web%20Uploads/IMGP0703.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong>Nelly B Needs A Pick-Me-Up</strong><br /><br /><img src="http://i487.photobucket.com/albums/rr235/hchune/Web%20Uploads/IMGP0732.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong>Flaming At Dusk</strong></p>

<p>I normally don't post photos from my wedding work on PNET but I thought I'd make <strong><em>one </em></strong>exception this week.</p>

<p>I photographed this Saint Patrick's Day wedding and brought my wife along as my assistant (Ok, go-fer). She's a point and shoot kind of gal and hasn't wanted to learn about any of my cameras. However, this time she expressed an interest in giving it a try so I set up my K100D Super with the 16 - 45mm lens, aperture priority mode set to f5.6, ISO 3200, tungsten white balance and placed her up in the organ loft at the back of the chapel. She did a splendid job and documented the rest of the day and evening. But I think I've unleashed a photo-monster. Three hundred odd shots later I got my camera back...</p>

<p>What impressed me about this shot is not the fact that she did a nice job (after all, she's a very smart gal, OK, maybe not that smart, she's still with me) but the quality of the ISO 3200 from the K100D Super. I was actually shocked when I looked at the photos. I had to check the EXIF to make sure she had not changed the settings.</p>

<p>I tweeked the white balance a little bit as the light through the windows gave the wedding dress a blue tint, once through ACDSee 2.5's noise reduction and a slight crop. Otherwise there is not a real difference between this photo and the one straight out of the camera. I've not tried the ISO 3200 before in the Super and am duely impressed, for sure.</p>

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<p>Here is my contribution. Work has really been rough this month considering I started it off with 3 vacation days, but the 30% pay raise means instead of making peanuts, I now make cashews and 1) I can pay some bills off 2) I will be shooting less photography for money which means 3) I will have more time to photograph stuff I enjoy rather than stuff I have to 4) I'll have some cash to travel a bit since 5) My contract is probably up this year and I have 135 hours of vacation banked that needs to be used up and those with some money to spend can do nice things in this economy :-)!!</p>

<p>So a continuation of the Death Valley shots....<br /> <a title="Mesquite Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park" href=" title="Mesquite Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park"> <img src="http://static.flickr.com/3645/3374286299_393da2e0df_d.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> </a> <a title="Mesquite Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park" href=" title="Mesquite Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park"> </a> <br /> <em>K20D, FA 43mm, f/6.3, ISO250, tripod, MLU, cable.</em></p>

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<p>Scot,<br />I use the K100D Super as well but have only selected ISO3200 for very desperate conditions.<br />This is an excellent sample of its high ISO prowess.<br />Kudos to your wife! </p>

<p>My photo of the week is this picture of a woman running. I was able to pull her face out of the shadows with VC 5 filters off of a pushed roll of Pan F+. And also there's this tiny snapshot of a runner in a pink shirt; she's off a roll of Ektachrome draped in front of my monitor; proper scan maybe on Monday. In the slide, she really seems like she is running and thinking. </p><div></div>

<p>Kodak E100G; E-6 Single Use Kit. Pentax 645; 300mm. Subjects were backlit. Can you remember to pull the flash out of the bag? Lesson for the week for me. J.</p><div></div>

<p>Nice shots of the butterfly, Bob. And Scott that really is an amazing shot for that iso. Looks like your wife has the touch! With the third quarter coming to an end at my school, the paper pile finally reached the ceiling so I didn't do much shooting this week but here are a few revised in ps.</p><div></div>

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<p>finally</p><div></div>

<p>I shot alot this week,had a extra day off and great weather, so Im posting 1 extra.these are from west TN and around Cave City KY</p><div></div>

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<p>3</p><div></div>

<p>4</p><div></div>

<p>Last one.. TVA..I could hear the lines buzzing over head,,it was strange</p><div></div>

<p>I was able to flee a conference early the other day and found a lovely landscaped garden. Our typical Spring weather involves alternating windy rain with a few hours of sun breaks. So I caught the latter for these few shots. The DA 70's handling of light and detail continues to amaze me.</p>

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#1<br>

K20D DA70mm f 3.5@1/3000 ISO 400</p>

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<p>#2<br>

K20D DA70mm f4 @1/2000 ISO 400</p>

<p><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/496302803_bBJM2-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p># 3<br>

K20D DA70mm f 4.5 @1/250 ISO 400</p>

<p>ME</p>

<p>Click on image for a slightly larger version. Taken at Zurich Airport (Switzerland) on Friday morning.</p>

 

<p align="center"><a href="http://enticingthelight.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/imgp2309-small.jpg"><img src="http://enticingthelight.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/imgp2309-small.jpg" alt="" width="768" height="512" /> </a> <br /> <strong>Fleeting</strong></p>