Interesting Accident

Posted by Mike on August 10, 2014

Last night I went down to the Utica Marsh to capture some sunset images. I was hoping the normal purple wildflowers would be in full bloom so I could contrast them with the soon to be orange sunset. They were in bloom but only on the far side of the marsh. I spent my time wandering the barge canal trail next to the marsh exploring with the sunset light. As I was moving the camera from portrait to landscape mode I accidentally triggered the shutter. This is the resulting image. I wish all my accidents were this interesting… lol

Interesting Accident
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5, 1/5s, 24mm, f/16, ISO 100

Less Traveled

Posted by Mike on August 9, 2014

Less Traveled
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8, 1/200s, f/8, ISO 200

Par 4

Posted by Mike on August 8, 2014

Last night my daughter and I went for a walk around the block. Now out here in the middle of nowhere that means a nice little 4 mile walk. I attached my 35mm f/1.8 lens on the camera and we headed out. We had a great time and I got a chance to explore with the camera. It is something we are going to do more often. As we passed the golf course on the home stretch I couldn’t pass up the sunset…

Par 4
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 35mm f/1.8, 1/125s, f/8, EV +0.7, ISO 200

What was I thinking?

Posted by Mike on August 1, 2014

I am not exactly sure what my frame of mind was yesterday when I posted the image of Little Pixley Falls. Although I am happy with the composition I would have normally processed the image as monochrome. So, as an immediate redo, here is the image that was in my head when I clicked the shutter…

Little Pixley Falls
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5, 2.5s, 26mm, f/6, ISO 100

I’m going to blame the oops moment on me signing up for the Adobe Photographer Create Cloud program which allows me to use Lightroom (which I have since I started this journey) and Photoshop. I have been using Photoshop Elements but the cost difference between upgrading Elements and buying into this program just made sense for me. Luckily most of the basic functionality is the same so I was able to jump right in but I am looking forward to learning what the big brother Photoshop can do. 🙂