Category Archives: sunyit

Winter Campus

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SUNY Polytechnic Institute

I am pretty sure these images were influenced by my reading of Our National Parks this week. It might seem cliché for me to admire Ansel Adams, being the iconic landscape photographer, but I truly enjoy his images and have learned quite a lot about photographing light by studying his images.  The one big take away for me every time I look at his images is that shadows are just as important as the highlights.

On Thursday my daughter usually gets out of class early and I rush over right around 4pm to pick her up from campus.  One of her friends has another class at 6pm and she usually spends the in-between time with her.  Me getting to campus too quick just doesn’t work for them, so this Thursday with the warmer temps and beautiful blue sky I spent an hour roaming the campus with my camera.  It was a win-win…  🙂

 

MLCreations Photography: Blog Post Related &emdash; Student Center

Student Center
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/1000s, 17mm, f/8, ISO 200

 

MLCreations Photography: Blog Post Related &emdash; Cayan Library

Cayan Library
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/160s, 12mm, f/8, ISO 200

 

MLCreations Photography: Blog Post Related &emdash; Wildcat Field House

Wildcat Field House
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/400s, 25mm, f/8, ISO 200

 

Field House from the Field

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SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Another interesting night as I was leaving work. The sun was setting into the clouds and everything was washed in an orange glow. By the time I reached the SUNY Poly campus the sun was gone but there was still great color in the sky and with the wind some very cool movement in the clouds and field grass.

I hadn’t captured an image of the Field House from the hill above so naturally the car drove itself right to the parking lot on the hill. I was having a hard time capturing the view in my head until I worked my way down toward the soccer field. The tall obstructions changed from thistles and goldenrod to some nice sway grass (just a guess). I wanted to capture the movement of the clouds and the grass with the campus buildings standing steady in the middle.

It sort of worked… 🙂

MLCreations Photography: Blog Post Related &emdash; Field House from the Field

Field House from the Field
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 6s, 17mm, f/16, ISO 200

Cayan Library

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SUNY Polytechnic Institute

There is definitely something about this library on the SUNY Poly campus that I draws me in. I capture images of this building every time I pull my camera out. On Thursday night it was obviously the dark sky contrasting with the color of the building and light coming from within.

MLCreations Photography: Blog Post Related &emdash; Cayan Library Front

Cayan Library Front
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 13s, 13mm, f/16, ISO 200

As I drive into the campus I pass the back of the library and have been thinking to myself what an interesting image it is as well. I finally walked all the way around the library to capture this view. I’ll let you try to find my correction… I had to remove a water spot from this image caused by a raindrop on my lens filter. I think I did a pretty good job removing it. 🙂

MLCreations Photography: Blog Post Related &emdash; Cayan Library Back

Cayan Library Back
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 10s, 12mm, f/16, ISO 200

My playing on campus also allowed me to try out the remote shutter release for the Olympus camera. Well worth the purchase. This camera has a ton more bracketing features than my Nikon but no great way to trigger all the exposures so the remote works out perfectly.

Wordless Wednesday: Sunset Glass

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Wordless Wednesday
SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Sunset Glass Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 25mm f/1.8, {1/25, 1/100, 1/400s bracket}, f/8, ISO 400

Sunset Glass
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 25mm f/1.8, {1/25, 1/100, 1/400s bracket}, f/8, ISO 400

Solids or Stripes?

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Student Center
SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Last night as I waited for my daughter in the Student Center I listened as various groups of students entertained themselves in the game room. I was amazed at what is available for free at the Student Center. There are three pool tables, air hockey, ping pong and a few video games. After her test, as we were walking out of the building, I noticed the game room was empty and although I only had my phone with me I wanted to stop for a picture.

We ended up playing some ping pong before I worked my way over to one of the pool tables. I quickly setup the table and launched the cue ball into the arrangement. I’m not the greatest pool player but it allowed me to grab this image with the phone. What was more fun though was playing ping pong with my daughter. I’m going to have to drag her back there for a rematch… 🙂

Solids or Stripes? Motorola Moto X Phone

Solids or Stripes?
Motorola Moto X Phone