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Starburst, in pink
I’m experimenting with the flowers I bought my wife for Mothers’ Day…
Technology dependency
OK, I’ll admit it — I’m a technology junky.
I’ve spent most of the past week on a family vacation, and planned things out in advance so I’d have internet connectivity on the trip without taking the laptop along. It’d just weigh me down, and besides, I have my iPod along and it’ll do wi-fi. I’ve [...]
The suite life
A few nights back, a friend gave us some “spare” tickets to a Colorado Avalanche game. At this point in the season, the Avs are out of contention for post-season play, so we weren’t expecting to see a good game — but I thought it’d be a good experiment to see what camera setup would work best for the occasion…
Just resting a bit…
Now that I’m armed with an Olympus ring light, I took “the pup” to the local butterfly place so she could wander around, and I could test my gear out on the locals. Here’s one of the better results (50mm macro lens and 2x teleconverter)…
Waiting for better weather
Today’s picture serves both as a travel shot, and a warning…
City and County
Another shot of the Denver (Colorado) City and County building, all lit up pretty for the holidays
eBay Ring light review
If you’ve ever done macro photography outdoors, you’ve probably run into a common situation — not enough light when you’re working up close.
So since I have an Olympus DSLR, and Oly’s macro light setups are both pretty expensive, I figured I’d try a cheaper approach. I bought an Opteka ring light off eBay (they’re widely [...]
Feeling Blue?
Maybe a flower would help?
Searching
Another macro image — this time from an outdoor subject, in a park a few blocks from our house…
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