In and Around the Warehouse

Theres always pictures to be taken.. No matter where you are. Here are some images straight off my camera unedited. Partially because it shows true mastery of the photographing subjects, but more because I'm too lazy to edit them.

West Desert... A Whole Lot of Nothing.

Last weekend for a scouts outing we went to the west desert, which is just a whole lot of sage brush, shootin' guns, old rusty shot up stuff, and more shooting. But for this camping trip I decided to see what there was to shoot with my camera rather than a gun.

After seeing another photographers blog/webpage(wenderful365.blogspot.com), it encouraged me to post more pictures instead of meticulously sorting through the thousands of pictures that I took or have taken, but just post a bit of what I got for the time being. I'm slowly warming up to less perfection, and more fun. Although I still expect more clean and artistic photos in more serious posts, here is an attempt at a bit more fun.

Very, very many spent shotgun shells. We had to clean them up as a service project later.

Someone was smart enough to shoot at a propane tank.

7.62 x 39mm rounds. Very fun to shoot.

Still not very many photos... I'll work on posting more content in the future.

Photographing a Play

Just this last week, my neighbor was preforming in a play and I decided that it would be a good opportunity to expand my horizons and photograph a play. All these photos were taken at 200mm f/3.5 ISO 1600 1/200 sec with an old Vivitar manual focus lens. Focusing was immensely difficult due to the adjustments of just millimeters that must be done with such a small depth of field. Here are a few pictures, straight off the camera.

My neighbor Paxton dancing.

Brennan C. Photography

Looks like my little brother Brennan (7 years of age) has a bit of a talent here. I wanted to go somewhere to take some pictures for a photo competition, and I decided to let him use my little Sony Cybershot camera on the trip at Arches. All I did was teach him how to focus, activate flash, and review pictures. These are some of the pictures he came up with entirely on his own.

You can see the artistic properties in this one

Impressive...

Me looking for photo opportunities

Time for an update...

These are some of my recent pictures. I will have more later. Taken with my new D5000. Lovin it!

Around the House

Due to the fact that I am unable to go anywhere and test out my new Nikon D5000,(more on it later) I decided to take some pictures around the house. I didn't just go around snapping pictures willy-nilly though. I set some rules for myself that forced me to think about the composition, rather than all the digital photography junk. The rules were that the pictures were to be taken at night (under artificial light), Camera was to be set at ISO 200, camera must be in "Aperture Priority" or "Manual" mode, must be in black and white (just cause), camera must be set to manual focus, and at least four minutes must be spent on composing the picture. This is what I came up with:

Yeah... I know its not the greatest for what it could be. I think I got lazy on some of these pictures and didn't get the composition right.

Cell Phone

These are just some black and white pictures that I have accumulated over time. All these pictures where taken with my LG Dare 3.2 megapixel (Schneider-Kreuznach) phone camera

This is a color panorama of the Grand Canyon