British Grit Truck

Many a road was made with these trucks. My imagination made more.

Jeeps!

Like most every kids, I had some G.I. Joes. Well, I lost the figures but found this in the collection.

Here is a cattle Truck

Silly me, for some reason I thought this was some kind of dump truck, so I put some rocks in it.

Man From U.N.C.L.E

Any one out there remember the T.V. Show call Man from U.N.C.L.E? 

Check out NCIS and you may remember some one from both shows.

Mobile Tanker

Here is another in my series of toy cars from my youth. Most of these are Corgi and MatchBox

Here is a Gas Tanker

A Batch of photos

I have finally gotten around to watermarking and editing a bunch of my images and am posting them now!This is one of the first shoots I did. They are barn swallow chicks, I think. They are hungry and about to fledge.

My Friend Ashley and I sometimes go out for a ride. I have a small project taking pics of barn an a sub genre of Barn Quilts. This is the first in the series.

This little cutie was at Pack Square and just begging me to get her picture.

I love this rose. I have been studying it for awhile now.

I screwed up my courage when I saw this little one playing at a fountain and asked her mom if I could take a few. This was mid day but the shadows where perfect.

 This is gang markings under a bridge. I like the Bokeh of the sand on the lens causing a sun flare.

 I took this for a contest celebrating fall. I did not even submit it, but I like it enough for here.

I had an early morning delivery to Johnson City and decided to bring my camera and stopped at a rest stop on Rt 26 and was really lucky to capture this.

A spring ride with Ashley. Part 1

The riding season has begun! 

Ashley reached out the other day and said let's ride! We talked about a bunch of stuff including up coming shoots. I guess she has found a guy she likes and he has a Chevelle which he has refurbished. I need to figure out where is best to highlight the car and Ashley. Hmm, This could be a lot of fun! I wonder if I can get him to pay for the lens rental???!!! I am going to do a little boning up on car fotog and the angles used before this one. Though the guy may not be big time, I really don’t know, he may know someone who is indeed an avenue to photographic riches. HMMM...

O yeah, the ride and shoot we already had, is the subject for today! The truth, is I have not gotten a chance to look at the images and I only took about forty, but I think some came out well. I did work on one with Ashley in it. Unfortunately, part of the sky was washed out in muddy white clouds with no definition, so I had to crop it severely. It looks OK on screen, but I fear it may not print well. 

During the post processing though, I used the new Photo app from Apple. It is great for removing objects that distract from the subject! However, the importing and exporting of images is a little problematic and I need to ponder if I want to be restricted by Apple's need for control.

The sun was a bit of a problem during the whole shoot. Clouds kept obscuring the flow of light and the later in the day, say mid-afternoon, the clouds began to leak. There was one series of shots of a red barn with the mountains in the background that may have come out nicely, But I know that I will have to do some work on them to make ‘em right.

More when I have worked some more pics and have an idea where it is all going.

                                                                                                                 

This is the first image I worked from the shoot. As I am still learning EVERYTHING about photography and post shoot processing I am pretty happy about this result. But because I am ever inquisitive, I went on line, or someplace to see what I could do to improve the whole picture. You see, I cropped the crap out of the original. The clouds are over exposed and make the whole thing hard to look at, so I took them out. Now I know how to modify the image to “pull” info out from the image. SOOO…

Well, I know that the beautiful Ashley is still a little out of focus, But you can still see her beauty. Not only that, but we can see beyond her where I have enhanced and defined the clouds and landscape a little.

More later!

olc

A little cutie

I invited myself to a local bar to take a few pics of a clogging troupe and I got a few of them! But this little girl just plain needed me to take a picture.

What do ya' think?

A Mini Mushroom

I was going to work one morning and saw, through the corner of my eye a little quarter sized thing on the ground. Upon further inspection...
I pulled out my camera and played around with different exposures and lens and finally, after only about 20 shots got this one.

Some saw this said they thought the clover was a distraction. I kinda like it because it gives a little perspective. What do you think?


olc

A leaf in ice

I was sitting in my back yard when these guys passed by on their way home from a days foraging. Unfortunately, I had to get my camera and that started Mommy and they all started to walk away. I think they were about 75 feet from me when I finally got this image. No PP, just straight from the camera.


olc

So, the set of 3 extensions has 3 different lengths, a 13mm, 21mm and 31mm They do stuff to make the image bigger, or they allow me to put the subject closer to the lens for more detailed resolution. I spent all night on my birthday taking pictures of a cute bear candle using various lenses and F-stops and shutter speeds. Being methodical, I shot with my 50mm lens, then the 18-55 at three different mm. 18mm, 35mm and 55m. Finally, I used the 55mm-250mm at 55mm, 130mm and 250mm. With all three lenses I started at the largest aperture, or opening and stopped down to the smallest. By doing this I was working with delta of field, or the range in which the subject was in focus. In some cases, only a portion of the bear’s face was in focus, while in others the whole bear was not only in view but in focus.

In the background, I put some Christmas tree lights to see how the different apertures received the light, thus affecting the shape of the representation of the bulbs. It turns out that the narrower the Depth of Field was, the more depth of field was revealed in the xmas lights. The aperture also affected the shape of the bulb, sometimes it was perfectly round, while other times the bulbs were six sided. All of these things were expected, I just wanted to do the experiment and prove it for myself. Some of the pictures are really nice, though the biggest lesson I learned was that in order to use the long lens, I’ll need to get much further way from my subject than my kitchen table allows.

So feast your eyes on the pictures and let me know what yo think!

THANKS! olc

BTW, I did no Post Production on any of the images.