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Technical and home made photography stuff!

Day 191

Sunday, July 13, 2014

I got to take Miss Toots to swimming last week.  Here she is at kickboard practice, one of my favorites! (1/45s f/5.6 ISO4000 112mm Canon 7D) Who knew it was so dim in there?  I had to use 4000 ISO to stop motion…and not well at that! (1/45s f/5.6 ISO4000 135mm 7D) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! […]

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Day 190: Flowers along the River, Part 3

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

A short walk along Rivers Edge Trail near Rainbow Dam and Falls provided a wide variety of flowers and other stuff.  I know a lot of them are probably weeds, but the flowers are interesting! (All photos taken on the Nikon Coolpix P7100) This is an “other stuff”…a shy bird in a tree. * * […]

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Day 173

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

A couple more panoramas of the rainbow.  The first three are all the same three photos merged.  This a collage effect. (As always, click a couple times to enlarge; BACK to return!) (1/20s f/8.0 ISO500 17mm -2 stops Canon 7D) This is a perspective effect in PS Elements Panorama feature, before cropping.  You can see […]

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Day 169

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Last night (the 20th or 171st Day, not the 169th Day…) we had a pretty substantial rain storm.  I went out so take some lightning photos and found this very intense double rainbow! This is three photos combined into a panorama in PS Elements, uncropped. ( (1/45s f/4.0 ISO500 17mm Canon 7D) This is that […]

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Day 99

Sunday, April 6, 2014

The theme for the State Fair in Photography this year is “Agriculture”.  It also happens to be the the subject of the Great Falls Photography Club’s monthly contest.  Here are my other two entries in the Club contest.  The they are both from a blog post in May 2009. “Spring Shower 1” (1/350s f/8.0 ISO100 […]

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Day 97

Sunday, April 6, 2014

An industrial siding.  I decided to make two versions of this photo.  While the top one is nice, I really like the bottom one, which  is converted to Black and White from the original image. (1/250s f/8.0 ISO250 135mm +1 stop Canon 7D) Black and white, converted. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 82

Saturday, March 22, 2014

I went down to Giant Springs with Toots this morning.  We saw a variety of ducks (waterfowl), but most of them were across the river.  I have found when it is cold like today, there is a very slight steam rising from the water, and it is hard to get a really sharp photo, even […]

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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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