Today’s photo comes from one of the creepiest basements I have been in. This is #18 in my 52 week project. This also comes courtesy of the Tokina 11-16mm lens
I recently rented. You can see a review of that in this post. This basement has so many stories to it and I have just begun to photograph it.
I liked this photo so much, I thought I would give it away as a free wallpaper also. It really is best viewed large.So you can download that (1.5MB) here, at 1440×900 pixels.
Metadata is f/2.8, ISO 400, at 4.0 sec shutter speed. Lens was at 11mm. It has a fair amount of retouching, but I wouldn’t say a lot.
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The Basement Hallway
Tags: 52 week project, abandoned, basement, photo, photography, sharpen, urban exploration, urbex, wilson bros
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This is number 11 in my 52 week project. This photo goes quite a ways back actually. This is my first son when he was less than a year old yet. I have it dated at 08/08/08 of all things. This is fully natural ambient lighting.
I like to think he is stretching out getting ready to run a marathon, and in fact he was walking by 9 months, which I think is pretty incredible. He was also a ridiculous climber of everything, much to the chagrin of my wife and I. He could get into absolutely anything.
The Marathon Runner
Tags: baby, boy, child, kid, marathon, photo, portrait, run, runner, son, stretch
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In short, ISO is the sensitivity of the film or digital sensor.
To give you the best example of what changes in ISO does to a photo, I made a chart below. Using a ribbon origami rose that I made, these photos are taken with a Canon 40D, so different cameras will have different results. The large picture at the top is taken at the lowest ISO of 100 to show what the entire picture is. Below that I have images of each ISO setting at 1/3rd increments. These are 100% of the pixel size right out of the camera. For each ISO change I had to also change the shutter speed. The aperture was the same in each at f/5.6.
At the beginning I have the two extremes of the highest and the lowest next to each other to show the dramatic difference. Then at the very bottom that full photo is taken with 1600 ISO. The reason I did this is to show, depending on the use (here being the web), a high ISO will still be a suitable option. At this small size on a website, the noise is barely noticeable. But blow it up to a 16×20 print and the difference between them will be quite intense. I very rarely would use 3200 ISO, and isn’t really native to this camera (thus the H). But it is nice to have available in a pinch.
So what is it all about then?
ISO is a standardization that was Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: aperture, camera, digital, DSLR, exposure, ISO, light, photo, photography, settings, SLR
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How to take photos of UFOs
Happy April 1st! Now that April is here and just in time for spring and the resurgence of UFO season – there is a UFO season right? I mean why would they want to come around when it’s cold – I thought I would do a post on how to take photos of UFOs, and of course with some examples. Of course, the best advice is to have your camera on you at all times, turned on, ready to go, because you never know when you will come across a UFO in the sky, or, more frighteningly, on the ground. I suppose then it would actually be a USotGO, Unidentified Standing on the Ground Object, though. But either way, make sure your camera is out and at the ready.
Don’t bother with a Tripod
Tripods are great, if you have the time to set up and get everything ready. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: alien, april fools day, fake, joke, photo, UFO
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Here is number 7 in my 52 week project of photo processes. I went with something a little abstract this time. Something new that I tried in this process was using a Color Balance adjustment layer in Photoshop. I meant to click Curves, but missed and thought, eh why not give it a try. I didn’t go too out of the original color, but thought it added some more color contrast to it. To say the simplified version, I added more red in the shadows to contrast the cyan of the paint. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
This is from the Carl’s house series and is available as a fine art print, if you wish. Just put the name into the order form here.
Carl’s Wall
Tags: 52 week project, Carl's, cracked, photo, texture, wall
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