Day 98 – Shapes, Shadow and Light

Just playing around with the olive oil bottle.

I like how Maya’s shape is echoed by the edge of the sofa.

Day 66 – Outside the College of Education, UNR

The buildings on the University of Nevada, Reno campus are beautifully lit at night and this back-lit bronze sculpture outside the William J. Raggio Building caught my eye this evening as I was leaving class.

Day 55 – Cloudless Twilight

As I pulled into the driveway tonight I looked west to see this beautiful sky. I had to try and shoot it. I tried to catch the moon with Venus and Jupiter, but to catch this sky required shutter speed too slow to prevent movement of those bodies showing up in the pictures. Still I couldn’t let it go. The blinkies are from our neighbor’s yard. I liked them, so I didn’t crop them out. Shot at 400 ISO, f/25, 30s

I tried to get Venus and Jupiter in this shot, but I wasn’t successful. This was shot at 3200 ISO, so there is a LOT of noise in this one. Shot at 3200 ISO, f/9.0, 1/25s.

Day 51 – Silhouette

More light play.

I shot these in my dark office. Holding my Speedlite 430EXII towards the wall I used manual mode to have the flash go off at a single point during the ten second exposure. I only set the exposure time so long so I could get in place. ISO 100, f/10, 10s.

I would have liked to have been a tad more to my left. I feel like I’m squished a little to close to the right of the frame, though I do like the light around my left arm.

Day 38 – Clouded Sun

I shot this at about a quarter to four in the afternoon. I exposed for the sun behind the clouds. I really like the effect.

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Day 8 – Sunrise

I took this shot about three times adjusting the f-stop and shutter speed each time. I liked this one the best as it caught the foreground nicely and still kept most of the detail of the sunrise.

After the sun was fully above the horizon I shot a bit more trying to catch some interesting color and shadow that quickly washes away as the sun rises in the sky.

I’m off. Much to do today!

Day 2

Two again today, because it’s a non-work day. Besides, I couldn’t let the sunrise go to waste. (Don’t expect this every day.)

And later in the day I wanted to experiment with turning off the automatic stabilizer so I set about shooting the coat rack and kept moving in closer and closer until I got here.