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

St. Stanislaus Catholic Church

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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

Sugar Loaf

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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

Valentine's  Day Flowers

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Clifford the Big Red Dog

I was getting a little practice in the night before I was going to take Samantha’s 18-month pictures in her playroom and Clifford volunteered to be my model for some test shots.

Exposure: 1/25 sec, Aperture: f/2.0, Focal Length: 50 mm, ISO 200.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

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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.

Samantha In a Basket

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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.

Full Moon in Backyard

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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.

Valentine's Daisies

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Child Labor

Yes, around here, everybody pitches in…although it remains to be seen just how much she can get done. Also, what is the proper white balance setting for dirty ice? :)

Exposure: 1/800 sec, Aperture: f/6.3, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200.

Samantha Shoveling

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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.

Front Yard Leaf

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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.

Full Moon Through Trees

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