Ladies & Gentlemen, meet Olive. She’s really very very sweet, and terribly fluffy, but she would prefer to nap without being interrupted by a SB-700 popping in her face, even when it’s popping through a cereal-box strip-box. Oh well.
Author Archives: James Cockroft
365.26 playing with a magnifying glass and bounce flash
ISO1250 (I was trying to shoot in the dark, then added the SB700 but forgot to change the ISO :facepalm:. Luckily, the D7000 keeps its noise down fairly well, and sending to the interwebs at 800px wide doesn’t hurt either.) 1/60th, f/5.6, flash in TTL mode and bounced off the ceiling, so I bet it …
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365.25 – The Cereal Box Strip Box
365.25 Candy & Cigarettes: Monumental Sculpture from the Cockroft Collection. (Yes, it’s a silly title, and yes, I could’ve done a better job with it…) Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 E Series, at about 150mm, ISO100, 1/80, f/16, and lit with my new toy: the Cereal Box Strip Box! All credit for the idea goes to Alex Koloskov, and …
Bishop Arts Photowalk
So last night I was out shooting the Fort Worth skyline with the DFW Photography Club of Texas MeetUp Group, and I set the white balance to florescent to give the sky a nice blue color and generally brighten everything else up (a nice trick, as long as there’s not too much tungsten or acid-based …
365.24 Bokeh Bulb
From the Bishop Arts PhotoWalk… Sigma 30mm 1.4, ISO100, 1/2000, f/1.4
Fort Worth Skyline MeetUp
The DFW Photography Club of Texas MeetUp Group met up last night to shoot the Fort Worth Skyline. I managed to make it out, despite my agoraphobia, and chitchatted with a few shooters while I was there. I experimented a bit with deliberately defocusing, white balance, and wide/narrow aperture vs. shutter speed comparisons. I wish …
365.23 Deliberately Defocused
Deliberately Defocused (and deliberately uploaded a day late because I got back from the meetup way after my bedtime…) During the ‘shoot Fort Worth’s skyline’ Meetup, I accidentally took an completely out-of-focus shot. I liked the results, so I deliberately defocused the 50mm, and shot away. Good times! 50mm 1.8G, ISO100, 1/5, f/3.5.
