Monthly Archives: February 2009
St. Stanislaus Catholic Church
The St. Stanislaus Catholic Church is located in Winona, MN and was built in 1894-1895. The building in the foreground is a school that is next to the church.
Exposure: 1/125 sec, Aperture: f/8.0, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200
Sugar Loaf
Sugar Loaf is located overlooking Winona, MN. I shot this from my car at sunset in the Target parking lot.
Exposure: 1/400 sec, Aperture: f/8.0, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200
Valentine’s Day Flowers
Same flowers as these but shot from above.
Exposure: 1/50 sec, Aperture: f/2.0, Focal Length: 50 mm, ISO 200
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Samantha In a Basket
I was taking some pictures of Samantha for her 18-month picture and decided to go with my 50mm f/1.8 in order to get the focus on her face and make as much around her blurred out. When I uploaded to Lightroom, there were six images that I had taken from this vantage point and none of those had her face in focus.
At first, I was a bit disappointed in myself for not paying better attention to where I was focusing as there is very little distance between where the image is sharp versus where it starts to blur with my aperture set at f/2.0. Now as I look at it, I like the effect it made however I need to get out and work more with my “nifty-fifty” to improve on those shallow depth-of-field images.
Exposure: 1/400 sec, Aperture: f/2.0, Focal Length: 50 mm, ISO 200.
Full Moon In Backyard – Part II
One of the other images from my shooting of the full moon through the trees in our backyard. You can see another one here.
Exposure: 1/3 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 300 mm, ISO 200.
Valentine’s Daisies
I got my lovely wife some daisies for Valentine’s Day and had some pretty good natural light coming through our dining room window which gave me an opportunity to take some pictures. I was messing around with some different shutter speeds and at 1/1600 second, this is what happened. You would never know these were sitting in sunlight (8:45 a.m.) on our dining room table with a china cabinet behind them.
Exposure: 1/1600 sec, Aperture: f/2.0, Focal Length: 50 mm, ISO 200.
Child Labor
Front Yard Leaf
Just a random leaf from one of our trees in the front yard taken last October.
Exposure: 1/1600 sec, Aperture: f/4.0, Focal Length: 41 mm, ISO 400.
Full Moon in Backyard
This image is one of several I took of the full moon as it appeared through the trees in our backyard (as shot though our great room windows). For this (and for the rest of the images) I used my 75-300 mm lens with hood on a tripod and with the self-timer.
Exposure: 0.8 sec, Aperture: f/11, Focal Length: 300 mm, ISO 400.
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