190/365 - Jim - Spring Back to Winter

( f/18 50mm 1/800 sec ISO 1250 Nikon D300 )

Well, Winter came back to haunt us today with a continuous snow. I'm hoping this will be the last of it, but who knows. My mood changes with the weather and today was pretty depressing... I turned the ISO way up for this shot so I could get a fast shutter speed and some grain for black and white. I applied an effect in Lightroom called Moriyama 4. Usually the effect is too strong for photographs, but for this one it worked pretty well.

126/365 - Tim - Deer Family Portrait

(Moultrie Game Spy 5MP Camera)

My uncle Tim got this camera for Christmas. He strapped it to a tree along a heavily traveled trail and checked on it a week later to find this photo. He says:

It looks like a Mama and two little ones. The other deer looks like a buck that already shed his horns. It looks like they had a family portrait taken.

115/365 - Jim - Winter Sunrise

( f/9 38mm 1/320 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Yesterday on my way to work I saw a really nice sunrise over this field, so this morning I went armed with my camera. I parked the car and ran across the road to get this shot. It was extremely cold, so I shot until I couldn't move my fingers anymore. Gloves really come in handy in times like that and I didn't bring any. On my way back to the car I noticed a huge snow covered field with very few trees against the horizon. I took some photos of that and also included some mailboxes that you can see if you click here. I really like this shot, maybe better than the sunrise, but the sunrise is what got me out in the cold, so I had to post it.

113/365 - Jim - Framed On The Fly

( f/22 48mm 1/5 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Theme is frame. I looked out my back door after work and noticed some really nice late day light on the trees. I had this idea for a while so I went to get the frame taken apart and get my camera. By the time I was able to take the photo, the sun had moved on and I lost the perfect light. I took the photo anyways, but know it could have been better. My wife held the frame while I took the shot. I used a rear flash to light the frame so the shutter was pretty slow and resulted in less than perfect sharpness. I made the inside of the frame black and white with Lightroom.

103/365 - Jim - Severe Winter Warning

( f/14 70mm 1/125 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

I went against the theme today because we got a large amount of snow overnight. I'd say we have at least 8" so far and it is supposed to keep snowing all day. Taking snow pictures is not easy. Without a flash the snowflakes just blur and produce an image that looks like it is very low contrast. For this shot I used my Alienbee B1600 at full power pointed out my back door. Then shot all the way zoomed in at my shed at a higher f stop to get a larger focus area for the snow flakes. The flash pretty much froze the flakes and you are able to see what it really looked like.

048/365 - Jim - Snowman

( f/3.5 86mm 1/60 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Today was the first real snow of the year. I went out on the deck and made this little snowman for my son to look at. I have been taking a lot of inside pictures lately because of the weather, so it is nice to take a photo of the outdoors. Actually I took this from inside with the door open, but it is still outside :)