On a recent return trip from California we took the time to come up Highway 1 or “PCH” as it is known. Pacific Coast Highway is a crooked, narrow and up and down road in most places. By narrow I mean it is as narrow as The Old McKenzie if you have been across it….
We went up to the motocross races at Washougal, Washington yesterday. I learned that if you think shooting drag racing is tough you haven’t seen anything until you try to shoot motocross!! It is a case of pre-focus and hold the button down as they come into the zone and you take a LOT of shots. I rattled off over 750 with the new 7D yesterday. I’ll be happy to get a couple of dozen keepers and at that they will be mostly record shots.
That said, it was a heck of a lot of fun. We had a great time with old friends.
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The four images in this series are all from the same plant at different stages. All are stacked images using Magic Lantern and Zerene Stacker. There is also some HDR work involved in them. It will be the last of these for the year. On to other things. Clicking on the image will get you…
We spent the day at Woodburn Dragstrip as guests of RAM Trucking and Brian Hough Racing. It was a chance to give the new Canon 7D a trial run at the races. I will say that I am impressed and it is a keeper.
I have done pretty well in past years at the PhotoZone show. I was forced to skip it last year as I was in Chicago but I am back this year with three images. I should know early in the week how many of them, if any, make the cut. I entered the images below….
This male Anna’s Hummingbird has taken up sentry duty at our front door. There is a feeder there and he has a pair of hiding places where he sits in wait of other hummingbirds headed into “his” feeder.
Version II of the Flash Bar. I think I am close to getting what I wanted out of it. There is still a lot of tweaking that can be done as far as color. This is a total on 119 images. 17 focus layers with 7 exposures in each. (click for large view)
On a visit to the craft store the other day I ran across this feather accent. It started yelling “Take me home!” so I just had to get it out of that store. It gave me something to shoot on a rainy morning. These are pretty close to 1:1 macro. Full frame sensor and a…
I need some shots for a “Simplicity” theme and decided some smoke images would be fun. They may be a little complex for the theme but it was fun to get out the smoke and flash and play around a little bit in Photoshop. Be sure to click on the images to see the larger ones.
A friend found a firmware enhancement for some of the Canon DSLR cameras including the 5D MK II that I use. Two of the features in it are HDR and stacking. There is the ability to combine both of them and the camera will shoot the frames needed. This old light meter is a combination of 24…