I like this shot. The lighting seems to be perfect. A very lucky shot. I’m sure I couldn’t do it again if my life depended on it. Sigh.

We were on our way back from Fort Weatherill when we passed this scene, so we had to pull a Uey (U-turn) and come back around for the shot. The kids just groaned. Why should they have to suffer through dad’s hobby. “Zip it, kids, and go back to your Nintendo DS’s.” 🙂

I took this shot a couple weekends ago with a slower shutter speed – half a second. The idea was to get the moving water to blur slightly, while keeping all else in sharp focus. It seemed to work, thanks to a tripod. It came out okay, not great, just okay. The location was Hunt’s Mill in East Providence, RI.

Okay, this might look like a repeat from two posts ago, but I went back to Hunt’s Mill, this time with a tripod. You’ll notice that the leaves are a little more in focus, and there’s better lighting. The tripod was a suggestion made by members of a photography club I recently joined at work. There’s definitely some improvement, but it still needs work. I may go back…again.

The kids and I came across these furry little things last weekend at Brickyard Pond in Barrington. By using a 300mm lens we were able to stay well out of reach of the very protective parent in the foreground.

My first project using Photoshop: The tutorial calls this Hand Coloring, which means turning the color photo into a grayscale, and then choosing a certain object and reverting it (and only it) back to color. It’s a pretty cool effect.

The snow came down pretty hard yesterday, forcing me to work from home. The bad part? We were up early this morning shoveling the driveway. My back is killing me – time for a snowblower. But after the shoveling it was time for sledding, and a few photo opportunities.