Bishop Arts Photowalk

So last night I was out shooting the Fort Worth skyline with the DFW Photography Club of Texas MeetUp Group, and I set the white balance to florescent to give the sky a nice blue color and generally brighten everything else up (a nice trick, as long as there’s not too much tungsten or acid-based lights around).

I shot full manual all night, and remembered to switch to Aperture priority for today’s Bishop Arts PhotoWalk with the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp Group, but I forgot all about the florescent white balance…

Oh well. It made for some nice skies, anyway…

Fort Worth Skyline MeetUp

The DFW Photography Club of Texas MeetUp Group met up last night to shoot the Fort Worth Skyline. I managed to make it out, despite my agoraphobia, and chitchatted with a few shooters while I was there. I experimented a bit with deliberately defocusing, white balance, and wide/narrow aperture vs. shutter speed comparisons. I wish I’d remembered the remote release, as quite a few of the night shots were blurred due to my twitchy trigger finger. All in all it was a really good time.

365.23 Deliberately Defocused

Deliberately Defocused (and deliberately uploaded a day late because I got back from the meetup way after my bedtime…)

During the ‘shoot Fort Worth’s skyline’ Meetup, I accidentally took an completely out-of-focus shot. I liked the results, so I deliberately defocused the 50mm, and shot away. Good times!

50mm 1.8G, ISO100, 1/5, f/3.5.

365.21 Ohne Titel

I was looking for some sort of nice surrealistic title, something from a de Chirico painting or something, or maybe a nice Fire Marshall Bill quote, but I couldn’t find anything that fit.

Today’s 365 was brought to you by the 75-150mm E Series (not reversed, and not on 49mm of extensions), zoomed in to abou 140mm, from about 4 feet away, and shot at ISO100 for 1.6 seconds, f/5.6.

365.20 Ivan vs. the LensBaby

I was feeling a bit worn out, creatively speaking, and had no idea what I wanted to shoot for the 365, so I strapped on the LensBaby and forced myself to shoot around.

And I ended up with this nice shot of Ivan, and it marks two firsts for the 365! 1) it’s the first picture of a cat. I’ll try not to shoot the cats too much, but there will be at least one more, as Olive needs her time to shine too! And 2) the first use of on-camera flash. Don’t get excited, it was just the pop-up, diffused with ye olde film canister trick. One of my goals for 2012 is to get more competent with flash, and so there will likely be considerably more flash work in the future, as I experiment and play with the SB-700.

So, the details: D7000, LensBaby Muse (Plastic Element), ISO100, 1/40th, f/2, pop-up diffused with a film canister and ‘dialed down’ to 1/8th, and -33ev. Good times.