Playing w/ the 30D…
I felt motivated yesterday, so I decided to pull out the 30D on the way home, and then again at home. I didn’t set out to take anything great, more just to play, so they aren’t photographically great or anything…
Here are a couple of lame obligatory mirror shots… Sometimes, it just has to be done…
A sunset shot from Elgin TX…
Another Texas sunset. Very Texas’ish…
And this thing. Yea, I dunno why I took this, but I kinda like it…
The Incredible Breaking Glass…
So, my wife had a glass of Diet Dr. Pepper on the counter last night, and it did something weird. The glass is thick, and as far as we know, it had NO imperfections or cracks. It was used as part of a set on a regular basis. The bottom has a slight upward concave, so when it is set in liquid, or develops condensation, it forms a weak suction under the glass. It is so weak, it is only faintly noticeable.
Well… Last night Sarah picked her glass up from the bar, and I heard her gasp. I looked over to find Diet Dr. Pepper all over the sofa, and her holding the hollow remains of her glass. Apparently, the suction was strong enough, while the glass weak enough, to rip it in half (actually into about a 1/3 vs. 2/3 chunk). I’m not completely clear as to how it happened, but it was very odd, and a bit interesting.
Here are 2 pictures. The first is how it would normally look, and the second shows and abnormally clean break…
Coupland & Elgin TX…
I made a couple of stops yesterday so that I could put the new 30D to a *little* use. I didn’t come home with anything great, but here are the shots worth posting. These are all handheld and natural light (although I have the wireless trigger on the camera for a bit, so the EXIF might be wrong)…
These are the shots from Coupland, TX…
17mm – 1/1250s – F/2.8 – ISO 100
17mm – 1/800s – F/2.8 – ISO 100
17mm – 1/1000s – f/2.8 – ISO 100
17mm – 1/320s – f/2.8 – ISO 100
17mm – 1/320s – f/2.8 – ISO 100
These are the shots from Elgin, TX…
17mm – 1/200s – f/2.8 – ISO 100
17mm – 1/100s – f/2.8 – ISO 100
17mm – 1/40s – f/2.8 – ISO 100
17mm – 1/125s – f/2.8 – ISO 100
17mm – 1/25s – f/2.8 – ISO 100
First Pics w/ the 30D…
I felt the need to play with the new 30D last night, so I just grabbed these pretty quickly… *FYI* These are all Hand Held…
17mm – F/2.8 – 1/20s – ISO 1000
17mm – F/2.8 – 1/25s – ISO 1250
17mm – F/2.8 – 1/50s – ISO 1250
17mm – F/2.8 – 1/15s – ISO 1250
17mm – F/2.8 – 1/20s – ISO 1250
17mm – F/2.8 – 1/40s – ISO 1250
Few more pics before I pack it in tonight…
I just took these on the table with my wife’s little point-&-shoot Fuji. Sorry for the scene, I didn’t have a good place to do it…
He’s Got The Whole World…
Just a quick shot of my son that I took on Saturday…He loves to explore the world on his new globe!
26mm – 1/5000th – F/3.5 – ISO 800
The Candid Project…
I decided I needed something to keep me motivated while my batteries are on their deathbed, so I gave myself a project. We will call it “The Candid Project”. I may not take/post a shot every day, but I am going to try to take random candid shots of people whenever possible, and then post them here.
Now, by “Candid”, I don’t mean shots where people aren’t looking or noticing me take them. I mean shots where I randomly pull out the 1D and grab a shot of whatever face/pose the person next to me feels like making.
So, without further au-du, here is my first victim participant…
This is Jason. He is a colleague of mine, and a CRAZY one at that. No, seriously, he’s a bit off his rocker. But hey, that’s why we all like him…
Both of these were taken with “Natural” (see: indoor blinding fluorescent) Light. Both were shot with my Canon 1D MK1 and Tamron 17-35mm F/2.8-4…
17mm – F/2.8 – 1/100s – ISO 800
17mm – F/2.8 – 1/60s (handheld) – ISO 500
VisualOddity’s YouTube…
Just for fun, here are the video’s that I have on my YouTube account… Enjoy (I hope)…
This is my drive home from work via time-lapse photography…
This is Jason from work…
And this is my wife’s little dog, Ruby. She howls when other people do… lol
