Constructive critiques welcome here :)
Please feel free to tell me what you really think. I want to know:
1. What I should keep doing
2. What I should stop doing
3. Different perspectives on what I've done (for artistic ideas in the future)
Sometimes in this community, I feel like I'm in over my head among so many very talented artists.
Please feel free to tell me what you really think. I want to know:
1. What I should keep doing
2. What I should stop doing
3. Different perspectives on what I've done (for artistic ideas in the future)
Sometimes in this community, I feel like I'm in over my head among so many very talented artists.
![Saturday, 29 December 2012:
[david posting]
We spent the night in San Antonio on Thursday night with my brother and his family.
While waiting before going out to dinner, I took out the camera and flash and started trying to balance the quickly darkening outside sky against the flash. I ended up getting out a wired remote and the tripod because the shutter speed was so slow. I don't fully recall what I was trying to do at the time, but I certainly could have upped the ISO from 100 to 400 or faster.
Anyway, this was a test shot I ended up leaving on the camera after I was done playing. I kept having to ask Celine to stop talking to her Uncle Paul and Andrew so there'd not be any motion blur. I don't think she was too enthused about posing...
Jacci pulled this photo off the card along with a few others from the day to process. She said Celine's skin was very orange (that's be because there's a strong mix of tungsten along with the flash) and in correcting that, it shifted the outside sky blue.](http://www.sundayschildsnapshots.com/Portfolio/Todays-Child-2012/i-B3GrhFh/0/Ti/shutters-Ti.jpg "Saturday, 29 December 2012:
[david posting]
We spent the night in San Antonio on Thursday night with my brother and his family.
While waiting before going out to dinner, I took out the camera and flash and started trying to balance the quickly darkening outside sky against the flash. I ended up getting out a wired remote and the tripod because the shutter speed was so slow. I don't fully recall what I was trying to do at the time, but I certainly could have upped the ISO from 100 to 400 or faster.
Anyway, this was a test shot I ended up leaving on the camera after I was done playing. I kept having to ask Celine to stop talking to her Uncle Paul and Andrew so there'd not be any motion blur. I don't think she was too enthused about posing...
Jacci pulled this photo off the card along with a few others from the day to process. She said Celine's skin was very orange (that's be because there's a strong mix of tungsten along with the flash) and in correcting that, it shifted the outside sky blue.")
![Thursday, December 27, 2012:
[This is david posting for a change...]
We have been largely away from the daily community because life has been happening. We are still trying to find a balance where everything fits and is do-able... If anyone knows the secret, please let us know. Anyway, we have been well, just too busy to post much of anything.
Christmas Eve brought a third grandbaby daughter to parents John and Ashley in Arizona. A fourth is due at any moment from Tricia and Alex.
My brother Paul, his wife, and son have been visiting since last Saturday. Today we visited the LBJ Presidential Library/Museum and then the Texas Capitol building in downtown Austin. We did not end up lugging the big bag full of Nikons but I grabbed the Canon SC200 IS on the way out just in case. I usually use that camera to shoot time lapses or just quick snaps.
In the Capitol, in the rotunda, we noticed a neat view of the back side of the dome. I took a shot of it, but without a tripod. At 1/5th of a second, even with the image stabilization, it did not come out that great, so it's not getting posted. We will be going back to use a tripod and might even be able to incorporate some light painting into the mix as well.
On the way out of the Capitol, I noticed these statues in silhouette against the building. This was the most crisp exposure of the four I took, all at 1/5th of second, hand held. I did some LR4 adjusting, but not much more than that.](http://www.sundayschildsnapshots.com/Portfolio/Todays-Child-2012/i-p4ctxKr/0/Ti/Silhouettes%20at%20the%20Capitol-1-Ti.jpg "Thursday, December 27, 2012:
[This is david posting for a change...]
We have been largely away from the daily community because life has been happening. We are still trying to find a balance where everything fits and is do-able... If anyone knows the secret, please let us know. Anyway, we have been well, just too busy to post much of anything.
Christmas Eve brought a third grandbaby daughter to parents John and Ashley in Arizona. A fourth is due at any moment from Tricia and Alex.
My brother Paul, his wife, and son have been visiting since last Saturday. Today we visited the LBJ Presidential Library/Museum and then the Texas Capitol building in downtown Austin. We did not end up lugging the big bag full of Nikons but I grabbed the Canon SC200 IS on the way out just in case. I usually use that camera to shoot time lapses or just quick snaps.
In the Capitol, in the rotunda, we noticed a neat view of the back side of the dome. I took a shot of it, but without a tripod. At 1/5th of a second, even with the image stabilization, it did not come out that great, so it's not getting posted. We will be going back to use a tripod and might even be able to incorporate some light painting into the mix as well.
On the way out of the Capitol, I noticed these statues in silhouette against the building. This was the most crisp exposure of the four I took, all at 1/5th of second, hand held. I did some LR4 adjusting, but not much more than that.")
The PanSTARRS comet on March 15, 2013. Taken from the Pinnacle parking lot in southwest Austin http://goo.gl/maps/eScnw).
Taken with a Nikon D90, 70-200/2.5 @ 200mm, piggybacked on a co-worker's 4" refractor telescope to aid in aiming (the co-worked does not have a T-mount for his scope yet...); 5 sec, F8, ISO 800.
My (david's) lens envy extends to telescopes now, too... *sigh*
Taken with a Nikon D90, 70-200/2.5 @ 200mm, piggybacked on a co-worker's 4" refractor telescope to aid in aiming (the co-worked does not have a T-mount for his scope yet...); 5 sec, F8, ISO 800.
My (david's) lens envy extends to telescopes now, too... *sigh*
The PanSTARRS comet on March 15, 2013. Taken from the Pinnacle parking lot in southwest Austin http://goo.gl/maps/eScnw).
Taken with a Nikon D90, 70-200/2.5 @ 200mm, piggybacked on a co-worker's 4" refractor telescope to aid in aiming (the co-worked does not have a T-mount for his scope yet...); 5 sec, F8, ISO 800.
My (david's) lens envy extends to telescopes now, too... *sigh*
Taken with a Nikon D90, 70-200/2.5 @ 200mm, piggybacked on a co-worker's 4" refractor telescope to aid in aiming (the co-worked does not have a T-mount for his scope yet...); 5 sec, F8, ISO 800.
My (david's) lens envy extends to telescopes now, too... *sigh*