Alan's Photoblog

Spent a little time in Madison last month and was able to enjoy some New Glarus Organic Revolution as well as play with my new wireless flash system, courtesy of the fine folks at AlienBees. The flash is sitting on the table behind and slightly right of the bottle and the flash output was adjusted [...]

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.

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 [...]

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: [...]

I shot this candle previously but for some reason, it was glowing differently several days later. I tried different angles and settings and thought this one turned out pretty cool.

Exposure: 1/4 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 85 mm, ISO 800.