Plano, TX held a Hot Air Balloon festival today, and the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp group was there in force, snapping away left and right, and shooting everything in sight! (In truth, and in the interest of full disclosure, I only saw one other MeetUper, and we ended up shooting together for awhile—me with my …
Tag Archives: Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron)
365.269 fascination
Before I get too far into this, let me just say that this is maybe the best picture I’ve made this year. And if it’s not, it’s definitely in the top 5 of all pictures I’ve ever made. I really like this shot (but I think it needs a better title…). Anyway. I went to …
365.263 if it was any closer, it would’t be
Following the most recent addition to my drip play (a straw from one of the fast food places around), which brought some size uniformity, today I moved the camera off of the stable Manfrotto tripod and on to the wobbly plastic tripod I bought on the cheap in 2003 (and cursed at every time I used it …
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365.261 Closer Still
Well, 483 shots today, and I got my plane of focus issues mostly solved, but I ran into another problem: somehow, 1/32nd is suddenly not fast enough to freeze drops. That, or diffraction kicks in earlier than expected on the Vivitar, or ISO400 has some blurring effect on objects in motion. According to the SB-700 …
365.260 Closer… Actually, too close.
In my quest for the droplet shot that every photographer absolutely must have, I’ve been closer than this. In fact, I had a perfect one today, with the stem rising up to meet the drop; with the drop itself hovering several millimeters above the stem. Alas, the drop was not in focus. Since I’m shooting …
365.258 bloom
Bloom? Yes. 1) To me, this looks like a divot in a piece of bulletproof glass, or that glass with the wire all through, and ‘bloom’ is a (informal) synonym for blemish, which is a synonym of divot and pock, which this also sorta looks like to me. 2) This also has some semblance of …
365.257 Grand Opening
Well, I had an idea to write up a long thing about finding some stills from a newsreel in some boxes and discovering some footage of the grand opening celebrations for the Chrysler building or something, but I decided that would be sorta lame. So I’ll be straight with you instead. This is a guitar …
