Airshow at Peachtree Dekalb Airport (PDK)

A few shots from the Airshow at Peachtree Dekalb Airport (PDK) this afternoon. Was using a 100-400 mm lens. This lens works best for bright light like I saw today...

A note about post-processing. Adobe Lightroom has the ability to detect what camera you used, and then has custom calibration options for that camera. These were processed with the Canon 1DS III Landscape calibration setting, which really saturates the outdoor colors and makes them pop.

My favorite is the first shot. Framed just like that in-camera -- lens at 250mm -- pretty lucky shot.






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Entropy, Sign, Moving Target

Continuing the Photo Challenge. 8. Entropy: Gelled flash raking across aluminum foil. 9: Sign: Ansley's Door Sign. See note below. 10: Moving Target: Airshow at Peachtree Dekalb Airport in Atlanta.





Note about Ansley's Door Sign. This is the sign on the entrance to my daughter's room. You might not be able to read, but of utmost importance are the rules. These are

In Ansley's Room, No
* jumping on the bed
* sneezing on stuff
* kissing stuff animals
* Ghost storys
* burping
* peeing in the bed
* stealing
* throwing up
* Listning to Ipod (ask me)
* Licking
* Pooping
* being allowed in untell you ask me

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Window, Bread, Low Point of View

Continuing the Photo Challenge. 5. Window: 7 exposure HDR of wooden window panels. 6: Bread: 2000K white balance, 100mm macro lens with tubes, speedlight behind bread. 7: Low Point of View: camera and flash on ground (different locations) looking up. Guy at work told me I look like Neal Boortz.




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Chair, Pen, Music, Book

Before the year is 1/2 way over, gonna try to catch up on the PhotoChallenge -- starting from the beginning. 1. Chair: chair and plant in the dining room sidelit with window light. 2. Pens: Cup of pens underlit with strobe. 3. Music: the Ocarina music app on the iPhone - daylit in shade to pull out lcd glow. 4. Books: Wolfram's New Kind of Science - tungsten white balance.










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Pink Roses

Normally don't shoot flowers, but mom-in-law brought over some mini pink vine roses. Thought I'd try shooting these with pure window light and a bit of a white reflector.

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Cradle

Exact same lighting as Flavors below. All I did was crank down the aperture a bit to dim the light.

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Flavors

Realized that I haven't been posting to the blog that much lately-- been doing a lot of writing about light and color elsewhere and have not been photographing as much. I think this photo was influenced by all that navel gazing. Was going to do Atlanta Skylines this morning but the clouds and rain kept me at home. Decided to lazily fart around with the camera -- even too lazy to focus and meter the light correctly, just chimping along...

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