Wind: Abstracts January 2, 2010
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Audubon Walk-about November 30, 2009
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I don’t get to see Cindy very often. She lives in Colorado. The other day she happened to be on FaceBook when I was and I sent her an instant message. She wrote back, “Hi. I’m in Frewsburg.”
Yay! So she came by Audubon today and we took a walk around Big Pond. And talked. And talked. It was lovely.
We saw lots of birds: Great Blue Herons, Tundra Swans, Canada Geese, Ducks (mallards for sure… probably others, too), and a Bald Eagle. We heard a Kingfisher, but I never saw it. The day was variable… snow sometimes, then rain, then sunshine… We both toted cameras and often took shots of the same scene. Cindy promised to post hers on Facebook… Will you, Cindy?
Here are some of mine:
Several flocks of geese came in while we were walking. It was fun to hear their wings flapping right over our heads, then to watch how they roll out of their flight pattern before descending to the pond.
The colors on gray days seem brighter than on sunny days… why is that?
The dried grasses are so graceful.
The red berries of Winterberry Holly seem to glow from within.
The neighbor’s barn is very colorful.
Abstract September 29, 2009
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Many thanks to all my blog friends who gave feedback on my photography assignment. I’ll be making the final cuts and edits over the next week… You all helped me a great deal and I appreciate it! I made a couple of posts over on my art class blog with some of the suggestions you all made:
While shooting photos for my class, I became fascinated with rust on the side of an abandoned sheep-dipping wagon.
I didn’t know it was a sheep-dipping wagon until later when I talked to the farmer whose property I was on… I didn’t know what sheep-dipping was until he explained… I guess I’m just a city girl…
Your Feedback Appreciated! September 26, 2009
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OK, I’ve taken enough photos for Project #2… (never!!!) I’m only allowed to turn in 10.
Now, to cull… to find the ones that have artistic merit, but also help convey the idea that when man pushes on nature, nature pushes back…
Any help you want to give would be greatly appreciated! Go to any of these pages and leave comments about photos that really caught your eye. Most will need some post-processing – your suggestions on that also appreciated! Would some look better in Black and White? Cropped differently? Whatever…
- Weeds in the Driveway
- Gulls in the Parking Lot
- Abandoned Car
- Bottle Dump
- Abandoned Building
- Around the Farm
- Barbed Wire
Thanks in advance for your help!
Long Point State Park September 20, 2009
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Went over to Long Point with Maddie. She wanted to watch the Cross Country race and cheer her friends who were running. She invited me, knowing I “need” to take photos… (Now I can call it homework for class!)
Not all of these (perhaps none of them?) are for my class… but here are a few shots from around the park:
Too Much Fun…. September 17, 2009
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Having so much fun in my photography class!
Clean Your Sensor! September 13, 2009
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Update 6:46pm: After reading Tom’s comment about it being sensor dust, I googled around about sensor cleaning. I think he’s right, so I edited this article. The original blamed dust on the lens.
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I just spent hours cleaning up some photos I took at the beginning of the month. I was experimenting with some of the “stuff” I had learned in class and was setting my aperture manually to see the difference in the effects.
Before this experiment, I could tell you what was supposed to happen from what I had read: large aperture, shallow depth of field (small part of picture in focus)… small aperture, deep depth of field (large part of picture in focus). I took some shots at Griffis Sculpture Park that show this concept well.
With a wide open aperture (f4.0), I can choose to focus on the foreground:
or the background:
With a smaller aperture (f22), I can get both in focus:
Now, back to my cleanup job. Do you notice in the last photo above there are spots in the sky. Apparently when you shoot with a small aperture, EVERYTHING is in focus: even the dirt on your sensor!
Here was another experiment in which I shot a broad landscape twice varying the aperture.
Here is aperture wide open (f4.0):
Here is with a small aperture (f22):
Once again, even the dirt on my sensor is in focus in the second photo shot with the small aperture. These examples also serve to demonstrate another factor that contributes to depth of field: distance from subject. The DOF is not affected that much when the subject is far from the lens. Both scenes seem to have an equivalent DOF.
Interestingly, I took my camera to have the sensor cleaned the day after I went to Griffis… Now to perform the test suggested at the website below:
Here’s an article about sensor cleaning:
http://www.dmcphoto.com/Articles/SensorBrushes/
Where is Winterwoman? August 29, 2009
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My blogging here has slowed because I’m taking a class in photography…
We have to keep a journal (or blog!!!) Guess what I chose?
http://jssart1670.wordpress.com
(Actually, I chose both…)
Visiting Camp August 8, 2009
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Now that Maddie can drive, I don’t get to visit Camp Timbercrest as often. But I have been down a couple of times to pick up Emily on evenings when Maddie has to stay. Last night, I went straight to camp after work hoping for some good evening light… Clouds confounded me much of the time … but I got a couple of shots that aren’t too bad:
It was really fun to watch several American Goldfinches flitting around in the grasses. They really seemed to like the Timothy Grass best. It always amazes me how they can perch on a stalk of grass and it doesn’t bend to the ground; they weigh so little. There must have been nests nearby, but I couldn’t find one. (Goldfinches are the last bird to breed in our region.)
This Twelve-Spotted Skimmer kept flying just out of reach, or behind some grasses. Finally I got a clear shot. In the field, I thought it was a female. But when I got it home on the computer, I can see the white spots starting to come in, so now I think it is a male teneral.
Song Sparrows and Indigo Buntings refused to come out into the light, or close enough, or sit still… But they were fun to watch.
