EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM

This is shot with an old lens from my film days I kinda forgot about. It's a
EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM, so it still works with my Canon EOS 1D, but it's really slow indoors. Not bad detail for hand held, f4.5 1/40s ISO800 100mm. I'm going to use it for carry around to avoid breaking an L series lens again which I need for weddings. Below was sharper due to more light, f10, 1/400, ISO 200, 100mm.

think about it...

Cherie shot this, I held the light and adjusted the level, no photoshop trickery...

can't stop

I have to stop playing with odd lighting combos, but we're having too much fun, and learning about our sensors capabilities/limitations in the process. 

My favorite axe for many reasons.

Tuff Gnarl

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Some low-fi video made using a cheap helmet cam (for safety) and still images that represent a stream of consciousness, or set of thoughts that go through ones head when traveling. I set it to a Sonic Youth song "Tuff Gnarl" because I often find myself listening to them, and the album "Sister" especially when I drive.

more lights....

A Continuation of limited light, and long exposure experiments with random and calculated flash blasts. 

more light experiments

Some more work I did with light, and lack of light with the addition of motion. This is part of a lesson for tomorrow morning I'm still working on.

light experiment in the darkroom

Using a light up bouncy ball and some intermittent flash we were able to capture some odd lighting situations.

High ISO w/ noise reduction

Lit with minmal light, I shot this at ISO 3200, 1/20 of a second, F2.8, 24mm, slight blur, but acceptable. I also used color noise reduction.

stopping motion

We are continuing to work on stopping motion with the lowest ISO possible, this was ISO 400, F10, 1/400 of a second.

Leapster

I took a few shots of my son in super low light to show my students the positives and negatives of what I consider super high ISO (3200). Even with heavy pixel noise in the darks the pictures are still relatively sharp.

arctic chill

Thawing and Grey