Showing posts with label night shots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label night shots. Show all posts
July 4 - 185/365
7/19/10
50mm lens, f/11, 1/2, ISO 200
Happy 4th of July! We celebrated our holiday by having a cookout with our parents, and capped off the evening with some commercial fireworks we bought at a stand down the street. A nice relaxing evening with family and no crowds to fight after the "show" was over!
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July 3 - 184/365
50mm lens, f/1.8, 1/4, ISO 400
This image definitely goes into that "I don't know how I managed to take this" folder. I was coming home late at night from a movie with friends and was looking around outside in the dark for photo since my day was just about up and I needed a photo still. I had already tried capturing lightning bugs the other day unsuccessfully, but another one caught my eye. It was barely blinking, but also not moving in a tree next to our driveway. When I tried to get a closer look, I realized that what I had actually spotted in the dark was a lightning bug caught up in a spider web. I ran inside to grab my speedlight flash and somehow managed to focus well enough in the pitch black dark to get this image of the spider spinning its web while holding on to its midnight snack. Can't believe I even saw it, let alone managed to capture it.
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July 1 - 182/365
28-135mm lens @ 28mm, f/3.5, 2sec, ISO 800
I've been thinking about taking this image for a while. In fact, I think I've attempted it a few times before, but it never quite turned out right. Tonight, I thought I would give it another shot (literally, I guess). This time I loved the angle of the window drapes and the red color [no digitally added/enhanced] that glowed from the outside lighting. Perfect.
May 28 - 148/365
6/22/10
28-135mm lens @ 28mm, f/5.6, 1.6sec, ISO 200
The digital SLR is finally unpacked! As is most of the rest of my suitcase... the jet lag is still hanging around, but we are slowly getting back to "normal". I had actually intended on taking a completely different photo for today. There is a temporary carnival set up down the road from us and I had intended on taking some shots of the ferris wheel and other rides all lit up at night. But I had forgotten my tripod and the images just weren't working for me. So as my husband and I drove to go out and celebrate my last day at my old job (yea!) I thought it would be fun to snap a photo of the street/car lights while he was driving. Yes, no danger here - I was safe and in the passenger seat. I love the streaks of light in this photo.
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May 26 - 146/365
Canon PowerShot SD600
Being that it was our first day back home after our trip to Germany, I was tired. I had gone to work a full day, making me a little bit cranky by the end of the day, and everything was pretty much still packed into suitcases, including my camera. So to grab a photo for the day, I grabbed the easiest thing to get my hands on - the point & shoot. There was a cool moon out that night that I was trying to capture, but the point & shoot won't capture a low light situation like the SLR will, so this was as good as it got. I went ahead and did some more digital editing to enhance the fuzzy, watercolor-like feeling of the image and ended up with this.
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April 28 - 118/365
5/2/10
28-135mm lens @ 70mm, f/5, 1/10, ISO 800
I grabbed this shot on the way home from my photography club meeting. I have driven past this local community center numerous times. It is a cool building - kind of looks like an old castle. I took a couple different shots of the front of the building illuminated at night, but liked the shadows and textures of this image the best.
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April 11 - 101/365
4/12/10
28-135mm lens @ 95mm, f/5.6, 2", ISO 400 w/tripod
I spotted this tree on an evening walk with my husband this evening. I'm not really sure what kind of tree it is, but the blooms on it look like mini-carnations - so pretty and fluffy! The glow and contrast provided by a street lamp behind the tree really caught my eye, so after our walk I went back outside with my camera and tripod to get an image of the back-lit tree. Little digital editing was done, so the image is almost straight out of the camera.
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March 1 - 60/365
3/1/10
75-300mm lens @ 300mm, f/5.6, 1/80, ISO 100
So I actually had an entirely different photo I was planning on using for today's photo. I felt good and relaxed all day since I had taken the photo before I went to work this morning. Then, because of my super busy weekend, I had to run to the grocery store tonight, and on my way home, the most beautiful full moon was staring right at me through my car windshield. Dang it. How can you have such a beautiful moon and not attempt to capture it? So after unloading the groceries from my car, I set up my tripod and camera and trudged outside into the cold to "shoot the moon." Needless to say, I didn't go back and choose my original photo from this morning over the moon shot. :-)
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January 27 - 27/365
1/27/10
18-55mm lens @ 42mm, f/7.1, 1/100, ISO 200I took this image after I got home from work. The original image was quite a bit larger since I was using my 28-55mm lens. I could have put my 300mm lens on, but figured I would be able to recompose the image with a little cropping. This was the end result, with minimal adjustments besides the cropping. Read more...
January 15 - 15/365
1/16/10
I was having a bit of a difficult time finding some inspiration today. I tried photographing a few things and brought my camera around with me all day, but nothing was jumping out at me. So my last ditch effort was to try a night sky shot. I have been wanting to try this at some point anyways, so I figured I would give it a shot (no pun intended). I'm happy with how my first effort turned out, but learned some new things about shooting night skies that I will have to incorporate on my next attempt. I will definitely be trying this again to see if I can improve on it.
January 12 - 12/365
1/12/10
My book club had their monthly meeting tonight at Panera. I had every intention of taking my photo of the day there, but I had a difficult time taking a photo once I was inside Panera with all the people. I've realized that I am quite self-concious about my camera in public... something I definitely need to work on. So instead I chickened out and took an outside night-shot. Maybe I'll work up the courage to take something different at next month's meeting.
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