Day 255 – Flora & Fauna

Out and about this afternoon.

Look closely. Can you see the ants in the thistle?

Some kind of wasp . . .

Day 254 – Fun with Photoshop: Triple-Play

This was my inspiration for today’s photo.

After dinner tonight I set my tripod up in the backyard and it didn’t take Nina too long to give me an idea. She loves to nose around in these boards for lizards and so I just sat there and waited. I used my flash, with the LumiQuest bounce attachment. My shutter speed was a bit slow, hence the motion-blur in the exposures. Post production was quite time-consuming, with lots of “Oh, Phooeys” and start-overs, but all-in-all this was a lot of fun!

Natural Light

I shot this in my office a couple of days ago. I like this one a whole lot better than the ones I shot today.

Day 253 – Clamshell Lighting

I’ve been putzing around with these all day in between doing chores and running around. Anyway, I need to start working on using clamshell lighting. I’ve used it before when we shot models in our lighting class, but in that case, our instructor set everything up. Today I took a stab at it. Here is a very simple explanation of clamshell lighting, for those of you not familiar with the concept.

Obviously I’m going to need to practice this quite a bit (and with someone other than myself!).

For this next one I put an accent light behind me.

Beautiful Sky

We had some storm cells move through this evening and I just had to try to capture this combination of rain, clouds and setting sun. Click on image for larger resolution.

Day 252 – Handy Helper

My workplace held a tailgate party today at the University of Nevada’s first home game of the season. This little guy caught sight of me snapping away and stopped just long enough for me to capture his sweet face.

Day 251 – Yellow! Bees!

Day 250 – Bill Nye!

We went to see Bill Nye at the University of Nevada tonight. The stage lighting was quite challenging!

Looking at the sundial. And looking . . . and looking. . . (yes, there is a back-story to this!)

Just one more.

You can find more at my SmugMug Gallery. There was a science expo outside the Joe Crowley Student Union (“The Joe”) and I’ll be posting those photos as well. I’ve got some up, but it’s late and I need to get to bed.