Practicing with sun flare

081807307 Originally uploaded by HDC Photography
For the time being I’m taking people out of my sun flare pictures. I’ve come close a couple of times but never nailed it. I closed my ap way down for this one making the streams of light sharp [...]

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Gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day!

081507302 Originally uploaded by HDC Photography
I’m amazed at how fast the sunflowers are changing, it was worth the wait of them not doing anything other than growing up, and then having buds for what seemed like forever.
f/8.0, SS 1/500, ISO 200, 95 mm (55-200 mm lens), [...]

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Woot!

081207298 Originally uploaded by HDC Photography
I tried to use fill flash to not blow out the sky. I only have a pop up flash (yes, an SB is on the short list) for shooting outside. I turned it down to 1/8th power and got [...]

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"Learning To See Creatively" exercise

I picked up a couple of Bryan Peterson’s books from Amazon and honestly, I wish I would have done it earlier in the summer so I could have been setting the information in my mind by using it.
Here are my results from the first exercise (around page 16) I’m wishing I would have used [...]

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Peek-a-boo

080907294 Originally uploaded by HDC Photography
Is that some yellow I see? Might we have some blossoms for the fair? I think it will be close and yes you should expect a lot of sunflower progress pictures in the next few weeks.

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Tomboy in love

080907295 Originally uploaded by HDC Photography
SS 1/250 f/3.5, ISO 800, 105mm

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Calendar test print

back Originally uploaded by HDC Photography
It’s packaged and ready to go! I just realized that my copyright notice didn’t end up visible, it must have been buried under layers. I guess this will have to be my copy then
It was a [...]

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Mom’s wall

080707142 Originally uploaded by HDC Photography
I’m printing this big for a couple of reasons.
1- I need to how big I can go with my new printer (and these are general test prints too)
2- It’s going on Mom’s back of her cabinets
3- I love getting big prints [...]

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Just been buzzing around

080607122 Originally uploaded by HDC Photography
I’m loving the lens, but I’m amazed at how thin the DOF is. This bee was taken at f/4.5 but I was able to get close enough that the middle of the bee is in focus but the bud [...]

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Cool old building

080607131 Originally uploaded by HDC Photography
I wish I knew who owned it, I bet there is some wonderful streaming light inside of there and the tall weeds in front of it would be wonderful to stick kids behind too.
SS 1/800, f/3.5, ISO 200, 105 mm

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