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lunar eclipse over tahoe
headed out early in the morn to shoot what was supposed to be the last total eclipse of the moon until 2014. from a thread on tetongravity.com i knew that it would be at 13 degrees above west and that i would need to be back about 1 mile for every thousand feet of mountain in front of me. the idea is to get the best part of the eclipse when it is closest to the horizon. i chose camp richardson because i could park real close and if i was wrong about the angle i could walk out the pier far enough to fix it. i think it worked out. there is almost a three thousand foot elevation change between camp rich and jakes, and camp rich is about three miles back.
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been enjoying sunsets & sunrises
now that we’re getting closer to winter, the later you can wake up and still catch sunrise and the earlier you can catch sunset.
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burney falls
i went to burney falls state park with my friend’s family this week, it was so lovely and warm and beautiful. go there.
mist from the waterfalls, it made all the plants look really neat. Continue reading
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fun around caples lake
the end of summer is typically when i find time to go camping with the girls. this year it is the same. the last two weeks we have spent roaming around caples lake and emigrant lake. actually, we camped at caples lake during the first week and made an unsuccessful attempt at hiking to emigrant lake. i didn’t give us enough time and as a result tried to push the girls too hard. the next week i made sure we had eall day to do it, and i made sure not to forget the bug spray. the trip did present me with a plethora of photo opportunities and some excellent learning opportunities as well. hover over the images for exif data
for instance, after finishing the day off fishing at caples, the moon and the sun were setting simultaneously
with the moon already set and very little in the way of light pollution, it was a good night for practicing some astrophotography. this is where we camped
more fishing the next evening. we were one fish away from being skunked for the trip
campfires are fun, skylyn enjoys her perfect marshmallow
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splash
it’s summertime, therefore i’m around water a lot, therefore i take pictures of it.
props to hand model jasmine.
good model. i like the contrast between him and the background.
focusing well on the water is hard, i’m still trying to figure it out.
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silhouettes.. etc
my friends and i hiked tallac for sunrise, this is us watching it. i always feel like a cheap photographer when i use self timer, but i wanted to be in the picture too..
this is david stewart, he’s probably the best photographer i know. i enjoyed shooting with him.
i’m not sure i’ll ever be too old to want to swing. neither will my friends, that’s why i like them.
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2011 american century classic from hole 17
this was my fourth year taking pictures from the side of the 17th green at edgewood. as always, i’ll put up a large gallery over on aboutlaketahoe.com/events/celebrity-golf.htm. but there are some that i like more from a photography standpoint than just to provide content about the tournament. i’ll put those up here. most of this stuff is nowhere near the level of the pros with thousands of dollars in glass and all access, but that’s why this is photography for (and from) dummies. all the shots here were taken with the canon t2i. the vast majority were with the sigma 50-200 f/4-5.6 dc os.
from wednesday
i mean seriously, what’s better? three beautiful women, or michael smoking another cigar?
shooting can be tough in the middle of the day, but it allows for fast enough shutter speeds to stop just about everything
thursday
this navy seaplane was chasing boats around all day
prolly should have gotten some sort of artificial lighting on this one.
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summer nights
this would be the first post of our guest contributor, camluvs7, who is also learning photography. more than anything, she has an eye for shots that i simply don’t. she’s also a good writer too, which leaves me wondering why i have to write this. we’ll look forward to at least one post a week as she works off her high school tuition.;)
lights on the lake
there were no shortage of fireworks displays this year on or near lake tahoe. both sunday (july 3) and monday the fourth gave us three options. on sunday i watched the squaw valley show after the free big head todd & the monsters concert. monday i set up shop at edgewood, and got some great pics of the big show, with the jameson beach displays (and the moon) showing up in the background. hover over the pictures for the exif data if you are interested.
we’ll start by saying happy b-day to the red, white, and blue.
and happy b-day to jamaica too. 😉
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learning the tools – aperture
the hardest thing to grasp for me as i move from a point and shoot in auto mode to a dslr in manual was the concept of aperture. i understand that aperture refers to the size of the hole that the light passes through, but that’s about it. i didn’t understand how i could use it to manipulate pictures. then i learned a bit about lenses, and how those with lower f-number had a bigger aperture and returned those artsy images with the shallow depth of field (dof). these are the images where the subject is focused with clarity and sharpness, but the background is blurred and fuzzy. the term is bokeh
here is an example of bokeh from camluvs7
so there i was thinking aperture was kind of a one sided deal. you paid more and got faster lenses with wider apertures. the lower the better. right? one nice thing about the digital age is that messing up is nearly free, and takes up no time. it may take some of the edge and sense of urgency away from learning, but it also leads to happy accidents. here is one now. i was unfamiliar with the fact that the flash would reduce the shutter speed to a maximum of 1/200, and with a bright spring snowfield behind the girls, the background would be completely washed out, which is cool although not what i was looking for
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