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Technical and home made photography stuff!

Day 23

Friday, January 24, 2014

Last night at the Great Falls Camera Club meeting I gave a small class on low light photography and light painting.  I showed how to use a flashlight to illuminate an object, in this case a plant. Under the room lights. (2s f/4.0 ISO100 17mm Manual Canon 7D, 17-40mm L) No lights. (2s f/4.0 ISO100 […]

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Day 21

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

This is a repost from Day 290, 2009.  I took this down near Corvallis, Montana, and I was adjusting it for a photo in a class on low light photography I am giving to the camera club.  A simple levels adjustment and this is way better than what I posted before! (30s f/4.5 ISO800 17mm […]

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Day 12: A Flashback!

Saturday, January 11, 2014

It is hard to believe that two months ago we were on Kaua’i.  The warm, tropic breezes are in distinct contrast to the 50-70 MPH winds here, although with daytime temperatures around 50F it seems pretty tropical compared to the -20s and lower temps from a couple of weeks ago. Those Pastrami on Rye toes! […]

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A Moonrise Special!

Thursday, December 19, 2013

It was cold (really cold!) and the sky was clear.  I was able to catch the Moonrise over the Highwoods.  Note the lack of clarity: the cold sky, especially by the horizon, is unsettled air and not particularly good to photograph through.  The bottom is just cut off by the skyline. A few minutes later […]

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Day 338: A little moonlight (18 November)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

We went to the Smith Family Luau tonight.  It was wonderful.  This isn’t it.  After being cloudy all day, the skies clear tonight and the (almost) full Moon was out. (1.5s f/4.0 ISO2500 12mm Canon 7D) (1s f/4.0 ISO1250 24mm 7D) Kapa’a by night. (2s f/4.5 ISO5000 22mm 7D) (1s f/4.0 ISO800 24mm 7D) Those […]

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Day 333: 14 November

Friday, November 15, 2013

Thursday night I took a night photography workshop from Kauai Adventure Photography Workshops!  I had hoped to get one of those fantastic Milky Way over the Ocean shots, but it was not to be…cloudy.  There were only a few of us, and we practiced some nice sunset photos, then light painting and long exposure.  Here […]

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Day 282

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Back to Lugnut and the Railroad shortly. This is where we stayed, the Anaheim Residence Inn Maingate, or something like that.  It was within walking distance to Disneyland, but since all you do there is walk anyway, we got bus passes.  It was sure nice, once you have dragged yourself back to the Disney Gate […]

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Day 246

Friday, August 24, 2012

A bunch of us went out after the Glacier trip to shoot photos of old cars.  I decided I had not used my pinhole lens in a while and this was a good opportunity to dig it out! Friend Robyn’s version,with a real lens, you know, with glass and stuff! (1 second, ISO 100) (1.5 seconds, […]

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Day 216

Friday, July 27, 2012

Miscellaneous shots from the backyard and house.  The venerable Canon Powershot SX100IS is being retired… Wide angle: 28mm Telephoto: 200mm A flower from the back yard. A flower from inside the house. And the newest member of the Barrow Camera Collection is: A Nikon Coolpix P7100.  It was a tough choice between this and the […]

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3D Civil War Photos!

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Pretty neat!  From the Library of Congress.   Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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