Project 365 - Day 174 - Supermoon

This is a shot from Coronation Park in Oakville tonight.  I used ND filters in front of the lens.  I used an ND6 and an ND9 to get the moon dark enough to see detail while retaining the reflection.  I had to also clone out a lot of artifacts which happens when you are shooting into a light source. I

Shot with my Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 at 1/640s shutter.  ISO400.

Project 365 - Day 169 - Sailboat

Tonight I went out with the express purpose of getting some star trails.  Turns out it was too bright still, even at 10pm, to get these.  So I had to improvise.

Today's shot is of a sailboat at night.  I set up and took this as a straight on night shot.  My exposure was 6 seconds, and the boat is floating, so it was really blurry.  So I got out my speedlight and fired it off just before the shutter closed, emulating a rear curtain flash.

The end result is it froze the boat and still let the ambient night light in.

24-70mm lens at 24mm.  f/6.3 at 6 sec.  ISO is 800.  Manually fired handheld flash, but the camera is on a tripod.

Project 365 - Day 161 - Now that's cold!

Lousy day out there today, and we also had a club meeting tonight.  It was dark and raining when I got home.  Dark I can take, as night shots are awesome.  Dark and raining gets my camera wet and I can't see where it is wet and it just makes me miserable.  Plus, it messes up my hair.

So I came home to think about my shot over a nice cold beer.  Hrm ... what's that running down the side of the bottle?  Is that a water droplet?  Time to grab the camera!

 

Shot with my Nikon 60mm Macro lens at f/10.  1/250 of a sec.  On a tripod, with my flash mounted on a pocketwizard to the right of the shot.  ISO640.  Simple crop, that's it.  Oh, I had to erase a dog hair that was on the bottle - full disclosure ... :-)

Project 365 - Day 159 - Millipede??

I hate these things.  :-) 

We have a garbage containment unit outside since we don't have a garage.  For the first couple of years, I battled with the racoons and other "night life" around here when it was getting close to garbage day.  We would try everything from tying the garbage cans up to the posts of the car port to leaving securing the lids with bungee cords.  Nothing worked.  But finally, I designed and built a containment unit and this has kept them away successfully since then.

One of the bonuses of the containment unit is that it creates a nice damp environment for all kinds of creepy crawlies to lounge about in the doorjambs of the unit.  Every time I open the door, centipedes run for cover, potato bugs slowly meander in their potato bugly way into a darker corner, and the small millipedes pretend that they are not there and that I can't see them.

So today, I purposely went to get this guy and shoot him.

I wanted to get him in his "ring" state, but he wasn't sitting still for me.  These things should have more respect for my size and humanness...  but I did get a couple of good shots of him trying to get away.

Shot with my 60mm Nikon lens, at f/32.  Mounted on my tripod.  ISO was 1250, and the shutter is 1/100.