06-MAR-2009
Day 065 - Me
Better known as "this is what happens when you use your camera at work for work stuff and leave the CF card in your laptop which is still at work with all your intended PaD potential images from this morning on it". It gave me a great chance to set up my studio (black duck cloth background, my special flash reflector, flash stand, tripod, camera, and other stuff that gets in the way). I also got a chance to drop into PS CS4 to adjust the black levels of the background since some of the wrinkles from the fabric made their way into the image.
05-MAR-2009
Day 064 - Wide angle crane
Something for an UWA lens. I was amazed at how close I had to get to this crane for this shot. The Tokina is nice and wide. I have the B+W CPL on the front of the Tokina, I didn't see the exposure difference in the sky until just now, during Post-processing. I had read comments about a CPL on an Ultra Wide Lens but never really thought about it. This sky shot is after applying an aggressive gradient filter in Lightroom.
04-MAR-2009
Day 063 - Urban Scene
I have seen this fire escape a number of times when driving through Portsmouth. Today it marked my "Point of no return" for the morning PaD. I mentally dialed this shot in as my final choice. It was a bland morning, more for me than anything else, technically I could have stopped and captured any number of things along the way, but nothing really worked for me this morning. Photography is like golf, a lot of it is mental (and I am arguably mental ;-)
03-MAR-2009
Day 062 - Sign of the times
I've been to this stand a few times in the past 6 months or so. This sign is on top of the roof of the stand, I am hand holding the camera for this shot and NOT extending the camera above my head. There is a snow bank that I am standing on (out of frame) that puts my eyes about level with the "Farm Stand" lettering. I used the Tokina up close for this one, I should have gotten a little closer as I had to crop out a chunk of the left side (there was as car in a snow bank that didn't contribute to this at all). I'm not too pysched about the grey skies, but there isn't much I can do about the weather (except wait).
02-MAR-2009
Day 061 - Clearing the driveway
My old faithful Wheel Horse C-120 garden tractor with snowblower attachment. I have the 42" mower deck and the straight blade attachment (for use a a plow) for this tractor. I believe this tractor is circa 1974. It gets a lot of attention when I mention it at the local small engine repair (I go in for parts once a year or so). It just came back from service a couple of weeks ago, it got a carb rebuild & the snow chute was repaired (now I can control direction without getting off the tractor). The snowblower is a single stage, with the throttle on full, power to wheels set to Lo (directing most of the power to the PTO) this thing will throw some snow. You can barely make out the spruce tree to the right (it is about 15 feet from the tractor). Had I thought about it, I would have used a wider angle lens to get the full snow stream.
More on the setup in my
blog.
01-MAR-2009
Day 060 - A Good Book
March begins on PaD Day Number 60.
My daughter enthralled in a book this snowy afternoon.
28-FEB-2009
Day 059 - On the dock
I don't do a lot of Candids. There is something about this shot that I really like out of all the shots I took today on a "Portsmouth Shoot" with Erik, a fellow (and local) Flickr photographer. The shot is taken in Portsmouth on the North Pier, the machinery (crane) is in Maine, part of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
27-FEB-2009
Day 058 - St John's at 11mm
I drove around Portsmouth a couple of times before I was able to figure how to park in front of St John's. It's a good thing I've been doing my PaD shoots in the AM (before 9am) as I had to stand in the street to take this kind of shot of the church. I would be listening for the sound of an oncoming car (luckily traffic is one way in front of the church) so that I could avoid getting splattered.
26-FEB-2009
Day 057 - Hull
Not what I intended to shoot, it was actually just behind what I intended to shoot. This boat kept getting into frame, it was either this or a farm implement on the other side. It was an interesting test of my new (to me) Tokina 11-16 f/2.8. I had to get up real close to this hull for this shot (and it is cropped at that).
25-FEB-2009
Day 056 - Danger
Some equipment from the line crews. I don't think these will be here much longer so I snagged a photo of part of them this morning ;-) And, yes that is an accurate orangish-red color.
24-FEB-2009
Day 055 - Spring Training
A late post due to PBase flakiness, I couldn't access my 2009 PESO Gallery at all last night. My
Flickr Mirror continues to work like a charm. . .
Its hard to believe that baseball season begins next month. Signups are happening this week. I've coached my son's first two years of T-Ball, it looks like our league is trying a new concept out and I will be coaching AA Minors.
23-FEB-2009
Day 054 - New England Winter
After a snowstorm anywhere in small town New England, you can see this scene. This just happens to be in downtown South Berwick. On my way in this morning, I wound up stopping twice. For this stop, I parked in the church's parking lot which is to the left (and luckily out of frame here) and then proceeded to slip and slide my way across the frozen sidewalk to this vantage point.
I didn't mirror my PaD today on
my Blog either.
I've posted a couple of extras out on my Flickr account today: