Category Archives: Things

Joe’s Garage

By Alan Olson | Published April 8, 2009

While out driving around Minneapolis one day for work, I saw this sign. Not sure why it piqued my interest but I drove around the block twice to find a place to park so I could quick take a few pictures. I used Lightroom to boast the color of the red bricks.

Exposure: 1/50 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 135 mm, ISO 200

Joe's Garage

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Room Sign

By Alan Olson | Published April 6, 2009

This was the room sign for my home away from home in Omaha in March. I played around with the green color a bit using Lightroom.

Exposure: 1/50 sec, Aperture: f/3.5, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200

Room Sign

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New Glarus Organic Revolution

By Alan Olson | Published April 3, 2009

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 to 1/64 power. I should have cleaned the desk prior to shooting.

Exposure: 1/250 sec, Aperture: f/3.5, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200

New Glarus Organic Revolution

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Cloudy Water Tower

By Alan Olson | Published April 2, 2009

I spent a week in Omaha in March and this water tower was on top of some rehabbed condos next to my hotel. This was the only day of the week with the clouds looking like this.

Exposure: 1/250 sec, Aperture: f/11, Focal Length: 28 mm, ISO 200

Cloudy Water Tower

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Snow Cone

By Alan Olson | Published March 4, 2009

I liked the way the snow formed on this bush/flower thing we have in the front of our house. I’ll be glad when I have no more pictures to post with snow in them. :)

Exposure: 1/250 sec, Aperture: f/5.6, Focal Length: 100 mm, ISO 200

Snow Cone Bush

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Valentine’s Day Flowers

By Alan Olson | Published February 25, 2009

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

By Alan Olson | Published February 24, 2009

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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Full Moon In Backyard – Part II

By Alan Olson | Published February 19, 2009

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

By Alan Olson | Published February 18, 2009

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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Front Yard Leaf

By Alan Olson | Published February 12, 2009

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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