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^{Cowichan River, BC Provincial Park, approx. 11:30pm, 379 second exposure.}

Took this picture in the last couple days while playing a game of Crazy 8’s at a campsite on the Cowichan River. This was after we spent the overcast, windy day drifting down the river on inner tubes. This is with my newest lens, the Nikkor 20mm f/2.8. I’m really liking the out-of-focus quality, or ‘bokeh’, that this lens is offering me.

^{Our back yard}

I was hoping to get some more shots in over the past few days with it, but due to the large amount of long exposures I was doing, couldn’t with my current battery capacity. I’ll be ordering a battery grip in the next few days to accompany my camera.

A few more pictures of the trip are on my flickr photostream. Click on any of the pictures to view it.

^{Cara Makkinga – walking down the log}

Another new lens… and a dog.

So far, these are my three prime lenses. I will be purchasing a 105mm macro lens in the near future to round off my collection. I’m also holding out for the new Nikon lens 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII w/ Nanocoating! Below are a few pictures from my 85mm a couple of days ago. I will be getting some pictures from the 20mm soon. I need time to play with it first.

B.C. Day – and all that jazz

Well, B.C. Day has come and passed, and it was an eventful one. I went up to my friends house and we worked on a skimboard that has been in the making for nearly 2 years now. He was nearly done painting when I took this shot. I had been taking pictures all day. I entitled it, on the spot, “real artists don’t use palettes!”

This shot was taken after the concert, performed by Feist in the Inner Harbour of Victoria, B.C.

New Lens, New Contest

This is a shot from my latest purchase, a Nikon 85mm f/1.8D Lens. The shot is for a contest on flickr called Tilted Horizon, the flower is growing out of the bush almost horizontally. The Aperture in this shot is at 4.5. Unfortunately, due to a loss of parts, I am not able to use my tripod so this is also a handheld shot. Not as sharp as I would have liked it.

Disabled Sailing Assoc.

The above picture, a Martin 16 keel boat, designed specifically to be adaptable for sailors with disabilities. The Disabled Sailing Association of B.C., Victoria Branch (DSABC) has two of these. They also have a few other boats including the Access dinghy and an olympic class Sonar keel boat. During the summer more than 200 sails will take place in Esquimalt harbour. For information on DSABC or the Recreation Integration Victoria visit www.rivonline.org.

Just because I can, I decided to throw this shot up too.

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These are two photos that I did while I was around the past couple of weeks. The first is a water droplet hitting a sink full of water. The second is a wind charm in my back yard. I need to start doing some pictures elsewhere.

I might be doing a photoshoot for a friend coming up soon. More on that later.

All about it

I seem to be all over the HDR recently, this is another that was composed of one image that was manipulated to create multiple exposure values and then, in turn, and HDRi shot.

New Lens

So, I went out and bought a new lens today. The Tamron 17-50 f/2.8. Picked it up at the local camera shop. Here’s a sample HDR I did just moments after the purchase.

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A few more shots that I took that day. The first is an HDR made out of one picture, I just changed the exposure a few times and then made the HDR. The second is just a shot of a plant on the beach.

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Quick Post of HDR’s in my backyard.

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It has been a while since I’ve posted here. I haven’t been doing much with my photos. I haven’t felt motivated to actually take pictures, edit them, and then post them. When the chance came up to do Diptych’s, I jumped on it, I thought it was a cool idea. Here’s my first take on it.

I’m also looking into buying a few new lenses for school, found a great deal on a Nikon 70-200 VR AF-S f/2.8 Lens. Hopefully that one will come with the 2x teleconverter. The other lens(es) that I’m looking at are at the other end of the spectrum: Nikon’s 17-55 f/2.8 and Tamron’s 17-50 f/2.8. I’m leaning towards Tamron, for the dollar value.