Another experiment today after reading the Strobist blog yesterday on how to photograph water droplets with one speedlight (flash). Pretty neat effects and results. Comments are always welcome!
Working with Nikon CLS
May 23rd, 2009
So…I’ve been working through some of David Hobby’s Strobist Blog assignments with my Nikon D300, SB800 speedlight, and the Nikon Creative Lighting System for flash control, and one of the most fun was working with light modifiers. One of the modifiers I used on these photos of our cat is called a “snoot”. It’s simply a tube placed over the speedlight (flash) head that directs the light in a confined area. What do you think?
Spring Trillium are blooming
May 22nd, 2009
We have trillium blooming all over our subdivision, and of course, the camera had to make an appearance!
A day at the Zoo
May 14th, 2009
Spent some time at the Milwaukee County Zoo today, and here are some of the photos…love the flamingos
Latest Baby Grace photos
April 29th, 2009
Shot with the new 80-400mm Nikon lens…WOW, what range. Plus she’s a very photogenic puddy cat.
Some early spring flowers….
April 15th, 2009
Just a few photos of some of the early spring flowers coming up in the forest at our house…..
Safer flying with these guys?
April 13th, 2009
I think I’d feel a bit safer knowing these guys were at the controls….how about you?
Getting our blog back in operation
April 10th, 2009
I’m close to getting our blog and photo site back online after some time off due to technical diffculties. Spent the past two days rebuilding the site, uploading photo sets and previous trip reports. More to do, but it will be worth the work. I hope you’ll agree!
myunderwaterpix.com Assignment
April 10th, 2009
The underwater photography website myunderwaterpix.com has thrown out an assignment for sea turtle photos….so I uploaded a few from the Kona Aggressor and my most recent trip to Roatan….check ‘em out here…we’ll see how well we do.
Just a sample:
Back up and running!
April 7th, 2009
After a few months of not blogging, we’re back at it. We had some difficulties with spam and other bad things, but now we’ve got everything up to speed with a new photo gallery system and a re-installation of Wordpress. We hope you enjoy the new format!
